ManBookering discussion

Hi all! We are now at the halfway point of January, so it's time to start thinking about what we will be reading for Manbookering in February!

Just as a reminder, the 2016 Man Booker International Prize longlist will be announced in March, which means this group will be returning back to focusing on those nominees as opposed to a backlist winner of the MBP. I think it's too much to ask everyone to do both, so as planned when this group was created, we will spend March, April and May reading from the longlist for the international prize.

Then in June we will return to reading our backlist before July when the regular Man Booker Prize longlist is announced.

BUT, let's focus on February :)

As usual, you are able to nominate 1 book (must be a Man Booker winner) and second any 2 books that others nominate.

For reference, we have already read:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

So please don't nominate those, or you are wasting your vote.

I'll start the nominees by recommending The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson, which was the 2010 winner.

I nominate: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (Winner in 1995)

I nominate 2014's winner: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan.

I nominate The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (2013 winner)

I nominate the 1978 winner The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch.

I nominate Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death by DBC Pierre which won in 2003

I can trace my interest in the Man Booker back to 2008, so I nominate the first winner I haven't read: The Gathering by Anne Enright which won in 2007.

I loved How To Be Both, but it didn't win, so I can't second it. I'll save my seconds until I see a few more nominations.

Toby wrote: "I nominate How To Be Both by Ali Smith from the 2013 longlist"

Hi Toby, we are currently only nominating and reading past winners. Once that list is exhausted (a long time from now), then we will turn to longlist/shortlist nominees.

I'll nominate The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai! (2006 winner)

I'd like to nominate Wolf Hall (2009 Winner)

i nominate Disgrace. I second vernon god little.

I'll second Wolf Hall and A Brief History of Seven Killings.

I nominate The Luminaries (2013 winner)

I would also like to nominate Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel!

I'll second Wolf Hall and The Inheritance of Loss.

I second A Brief History of Seven Killings and The Luminaries.

My first second goes to The Inheritance of Loss

My first second is Wolf Hall.

I second Vernon God Little and A Brief History of Seven Killings

I'll join in seconding Wolf Hall and A Brief History of Seven Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings or Vernon God Little

Toby wrote: "I nominate The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (2013 winner)"
I'll second this!

I also nominate the Finkler Question

I second, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton :)

I second A Brief History of Seven Killings and The Luminaries.

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Nadia wrote: "I'd like to nominate Wolf Hall (2009 Winner)"

I second to Wolf Hall

My first second is Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee.

I nominate The Sea by John Banville (2005 winner).

My seconds are: Wolf Hall and A Brief History of Seven Killings

Nina wrote: "I nominate 2014's winner: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan."

I second Nina's nomination- The Narrow Road to the Deep North; and Karen's -The Inheritance of Loss.

I second Wolf Hall.

I second second the finkler question

I nominate Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (winner in 1979). And I second The Finkler Question and The Inheritance of Loss.

My first second are Luminaries.

I nominate Oscar and Lucinda by Australian author Peter Carey.

I second The Bone People and The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

seconding The Sea by John Banville!

My second second goes to Disgrace

I second A Brief History of Seven Killings and The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

I nominate The Remains of the Day (1989 winner).

I second The Bone People and The Luminaries

I'd like to nominate


1) A Brief History of Seven Killings
2) The Famished Road
3) The White Tiger

I second Inheritance of Loss and Oscar and Lucinda

I second The Luminaries!

I second the The Sea by John Banville and second second The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan.

I second:
Disgrace
The Luminaries

I would like to second A Brief History of Seven Killings.

I second:

Wolf Hall
The Luminaries

I second The Luminaries.

I second Oscar and Lucinda and White Tiger.

I second The Narrow Road to the Deep North and A Brief History of Seven Killings.

I second The Narrow Road to the Deep North