Lists of Bests: geishabird's "Reading The Booker Shortlist" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/19544 I am working on reading all the books on the Booker Prize shortlist. Here's what I've read so far. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:52:31 GMT en-us 0 50 52 50 0 A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28187 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28187"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0940322471.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.L. Carr</div> According To Mark – Penelope Lively http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469635 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Amsterdam: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10350 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10350"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385494246.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> An Artist of the Floating World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18650 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18650"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722661.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114077029_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> An Awfully Big Adventure – Beryl Bainbridge http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469652 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038572179X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Black Dogs: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10351 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10351"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385494327.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Breakfast on Pluto. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2514423 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2514423"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3821805897.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46857338_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCabe</div> Brick Lane: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21060 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21060"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743243315.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Monica Ali</div> Briefing for a Descent into Hell http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29168 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29168"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400077265.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Cat's Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491026.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Cloud Atlas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1611950 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1611950"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340822783.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Mitchell</div> Disgrace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589815 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Fasting, Feasting http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17135 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17135"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618065822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anita Desai</div> Fingersmith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2291299 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Waters</div> Flaubert's Parrot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18735 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18735"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731369.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julian Barnes</div> Hotel Du Lac http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65394 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65394"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679759328.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anita Brookner</div> Hotel World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10568 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ali Smith</div> In the Country of Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2170129 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2170129"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385340427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hisham Matar</div> Knowledge of Angels http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/525624 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/525624"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0552997803.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39861488_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jill Paton Walsh</div> Last Orders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19046 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19046"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679766626.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465009_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Swift</div> Master Georgie: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469738 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469738"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HWYRI2.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beryl Bainbridge</div> Midnight's Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136584770_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> Moon Tiger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795394 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/795394"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140099956.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Lively</div> Never Let Me Go http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54914"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400078776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> Notes on a Scandal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75199 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75199"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670914061.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120589948_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zoe Heller</div> Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Virago Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424776 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424776"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1844083217.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Taylor</div> Offshore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65391 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65391"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395478049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1094699959_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> Possession: A Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> Quarantine: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5891 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5891"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312199511.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Crace</div> Remembering Babylon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2423232 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Malouf</div> Restoration http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456234 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/456234"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340530448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rose Tremain</div> Sacred Hunger (Norton Paperback Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10837 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10837"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393311147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barry Unsworth</div> Sour Sweet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/422837 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Mo</div> The Beginning of Spring (Flamingo) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469772 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469772"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006543707.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> The Black Prince (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3666 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3666"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142180114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Book and the Brotherhood (Penguin Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/543952 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/543952"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140104704.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Bookshop: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11380 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11380"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395869463.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1077659685_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> The Bottle Factory Outing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469803 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2469803"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000HWYZH0.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beryl Bainbridge</div> The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44089 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/44089"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006145086.01-ART9URYACHTU6._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Keneally</div> The Gate of Angels (Flamingo) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2510960 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2510960"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/000654360X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Fitzgerald</div> The God of Small Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/260110 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> The English Patient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464945_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> The Keepers of Truth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1000735 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1000735"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0753811022.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Collins</div> The Master: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743250419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colm Toibin</div> The Nice and the Good http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72606 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/72606"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140030344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div> The Remains of the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18738"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731725.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464898_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kazuo Ishiguro</div> The Riders http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73713 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684822776.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tim Winton</div> The Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/224335"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400097029.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div> The Sea, The Sea (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3473 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3473"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118616X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Iris Murdoch</div>