Which Booker Prize Winners have You Read...

[-Carlos-]

...from the list below:

• The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• The Sea by John Banville
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Last Orders by Graham Swift
• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
• How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
• Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
• The Bone People by Keri Hulme
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
• Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
• Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Rites of Passage by William Golding
• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
• Staying On by Paul Scott
• Saville by David Storey
• Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
• The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
• G by John Berger
• In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
• Troubles by J.G. Farrell
• The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
• Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby

Sadly for me, I have read less than a handful.

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[Peder]

3.....

 

[Peder]

Bumped up. Is everybody else "0"? :sad:

 

[Anamnesis]

Five: Disgrace, The English Patient, The God of Small Things, The White Tiger, and The Blind Assassin.

 

[Ell]

I've read nine:

• The Sea by John Banville
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

On my TBR list: Midnight's Children, Wolfe Hall, Amsterdam, and Disgrace.

 

[Peder]

My few three were:

The Sea by John Banville

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Posession by A. S. Byatt

 

[753C]

Don't feel bad Peder, I've only read two.
Amsterdam and Life of Pi. I liked them both so maybe I should integrate more Booker winners into my tbr list....

 

[-Carlos-]

I've read nine:

• The Sea by John Banville
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
• Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

On my TBR list: Midnight's Children, Wolfe Hall, Amsterdam, and Disgrace.

Midnight's Children is out-of-this-world good!

 

[Tai_Mai_Shu]

zero

 

[Fantasy Moon]

I have not read any of them.

 

[eldog]

9 for me...

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

 

[Will]

I've read the following:

* Life of Pi by Yann Martel
* Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
* Last Orders by Graham Swift
* The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
* The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Of those, Last Orders was my favourite (I love Swift's stuff) though The English Patient was beautifully written. I prefer Anil's Ghost though. I found Life of Pi quite boring, but Amsterdam was a great black comedy.

 

[Notibuti]

* The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
* Life of Pi by Yann Martel
* The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
* Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
* Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
* The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
* Last Orders by Graham Swift
* Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
* The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
* The Famished Road by Ben Okri
* Possession by A.S. Byatt
* The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
* Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
* The Bone People by Keri Hulme
* Life and Times of Michael K. by J.M. Coetzee
* Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

On my to read list: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

I thought The White Tiger was terrible and couldn't understand how it managed to win. Methinks it was riding the tailcoat of Slumdog Millionaire's mega-sucess (they were both released in the same year) but this may be anachronistic.

If I had to pick my top five from the above, it'd be Remains of the Day, Midnight's Children, The English Patient, The Bone People, and a tie between Last Orders and Paddy Clark in that order.

 

[Libra]

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Ghost Road-Pat Barker


I have heard good things about The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

 

[pontalba]

I've only read three so far:

The Sea by John Banville
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

And am presently reading Regeneration by Pat Barker, I only mention it because the last of the trilogy, The Ghost Road is on the list. I have several of the others in my TBR mountain.