ManBookering discussion

Hi all!

I's time to nominate our pick for December from the Man Booker Prize winning list.

In the past we have read the following:
-The Luminaries
-The Line of Beauty
-The Blind Assassin
-The God of Small Things
-The Narrow Road to the Deep North
-A Brief History of Seven Killings (2015 winner)
-The Sellout (2016 winner)
-The Sense of an Ending
-Hotel du Lac
-Midnight's Children
-The Remains of the Day
-Lincoln in the Bardo (2017 winner)
-Possession

So when you nominate a read for December below, please do NOT include any of those. Thanks.

Anyway, as usual the rules follow:
1. Every member may nominate 1 previous winner excluding the ones above that we've read previously
2. Every member may second (or upvote) 2 other nominations by other members.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON November 30, 2017 at midnight (EST)!

Happy nominating/voting!
Britta

I nominate The Bone People

I nominate The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (winner 1974).

I nominate The Famished Road and second The Bone People

I nominate When we were Orphans by Ishiguro and second The Bone People. As I am a new member, I am not sure whether we have to nominate only winners, in which case I have to drop 'When we were Orphans' and would like to nominate 'Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha'.

Nominate Vernon God Little!

I nominate True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001).
I will use my first second for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (1993)

I’ll second Paddy Clark HaHaHa!

My second will be vernon god little

I nominate Life of Pi!
My first second goes to The Famished Road.

I second "The Bone People".

I nominate The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (winner 2006). My second vote goes to The Famished Road (Ben Okri, 1991).

I second " The Bone People"

I nominate Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel), second The Conservationist, and second The Inheritance of Loss.

I nominated G by John Berger.

I second Wolf Hall and Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha

seconding The Inheritance of Loss

I nominate The English Patient and second G by John Berger and Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha

I nominate: 1. 'The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978 winner) & 2.

Oops, apologies my 2nd pick is 'True story of the Kelly Gang' by Peter Carey.

Second for The Bone People and for The Conservationist

My second 'second' is for "The Bone People."

I'll second The Bone People and Wolf Hall.

I'll second Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha and The Inheritance of Loss.

I second Wolf Hall!

I second The Sea, The Sea

My pick is The Gathering by Anne Enright.

My second second is the Gathering

Second second "The Gathering" as well.

I second The Gathering and The Sea, the Sea.

I second Wolf Hall and Life of Pi

I second The Bone People

My second upvote is for The Gathering

I second The Conservationist and The Sea, the Sea.

Nominate In a free state. Second Paddy Clark ha ha ha and Vernon God Little

I vote for Wolf Hall

My first is Waiting for the Barbarians, I already up-voted Wolf Hall 😁

Stacey (wanderlustforwords67) wrote: "My first is Waiting for the Barbarians, I already up-voted Wolf Hall 😁"

Hi Stacey,
Waiting for the Barbarians is unfortunately not eligible, it's not a Manbooker winner.

I second The Bone People and The English Patient

I second Wolf Hall and The Sea, The Sea

Stacey (wanderlustforwords67) wrote: "My first is Waiting for the Barbarians, I already up-voted Wolf Hall 😁"
Yes! His Man Booker is Disgrace. I will change to that as my first.

Thanks Britta!

I will second "Disgrace"

Also will second "Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha"

Nominations (and voting) are now CLOSED.