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Hamnet | Maggie O'Farrell

These are six of the women‘s prize for fiction long/short lists that are unread on my shelves.I am sure I have more. I just have to dig them up. I have decided to try to read one per month starting in February.Ones that I have read so far in the past few years are:
The bookshop
The Silence of the Girls
Sing Unburied Sing
Circe
An American Marriage
Black Butterfies
#womensdozen #womenshalfdozen

TheBookHippie, TheKidUpstairs, vivastory

Ruthiella Great idea! 👍 12mo

vivastory Loved the Lockwood. The Shipstead & O'Farrell are high on my TBR. I'm looking forward to your thoughts on these! 12mo

Tamra There are several in your stack that are wonderful! 😍 12mo

TheKidUpstairs What a great idea! I loved loved loved Hamnet, Trespasses, and Great Circle. You have some wonderful stories ahead of you! 12mo

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CarolynM

The Vintner's Luck | Elizabeth Knox

#WomensDozen Again, embarrassed by how few I‘ve read. There are only 10 that I really loved.
The Vintner‘s Luck Elizabeth Knox
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Gilgamesh Joan London
Small Island Andrea Levy
Disobedience Naomi Alderman
Digging to America Anne Tyler
A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson
Actress Anne Enright
Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters
The Vanishing Half Britt Brooke
Thanks for the idea @TheKidUpstairs

TheKidUpstairs Bel Canto was on my list, too 😊 I really do have to read A God in Ruins, I loved Life After Life! 12mo

Ruthiella I only looked at the shortlist and winners to narrow it down for my brain, but definitely Detransition Baby would have been there if I‘d included longlisters! I‘ve not heard of Gilgamesh, so definitely adding it to the TBR now! 12mo

Centique Ohhhh The Vintners Luck - its been such a long time since I read and loved that. Small Island is a fave too. (edited) 12mo

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Ruthiella

WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION JOURNAL. | THE. WOMEN'S PRIZE

Inspired by @TheKidUpstairs and @BarbaraBB here‘s my #womensdozen using only the short list and winners. Purposefully no overlap with my #bookerdozen with either author or title. Some are my favorite books of all time.

1. The Poisonwood Bible
2. Bel Canto
3. Purple Hibiscus
4. Old Filth
5. The Observations
6. The Tiger‘s Wife
7. Life After Life
8. The Goldfinch
9. Do No Say We Have Nothing
10. The Idiot
11. Girl, Woman, Other
12. Piranesi

Christine This is an amazing list, and now I‘m of course wondering which are your favorite books of all time! 12mo

vivastory I have read only 2 of these! I have a lot of reading to do as several of these are on my TBR 12mo

Ruthiella @Christine Thanks! Bel Canto, Old Filth, Life After Life and The Idiot would go on that list. 😃 12mo

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Ruthiella @vivastory So many books, so little time! 😃 12mo

vivastory So true, so true. If only work didn't keep interfering! 😅 12mo

vivastory @Ruthiella I have to ask: have you read other Atkinson books? I'm just curious, because I read “Case Histories“ & really loved it but it's the only Atkinson that I have read so far. 12mo

Ruthiella @vivastory I LOVE Atkinson. I‘ve read most of her novels and the entire Jackson Brodie series. I highly recommend it. When Will There Be Good News is IMO the best, but they‘re all great. @CarolynM is also a fan. 12mo

vivastory @Ruthiella Thanks! *Noted. I am def. planning on continuing the Brodie series, but also plan on checking out Life After Life. 12mo

BarbaraBB Such a great selection 😍. I loved Old Filth too. And Piranesi. And I should read

The Tiger's Wife: A Novel

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Ruthiella @BarbaraBB Discovering Jane Gardam was a revelation to me. I want to read everything she‘s written! 12mo

BarbaraBB I‘ve been thinking that too! And I noticed I already read The Tiger‘s Wife. Not even that long ago, in 2020. I don‘t remember a thing, isn‘t that weird? Or maybe it‘s because it‘s the damned Covid year… 😱 12mo

Ruthiella @BarbaraBB I definitely have read books where I have no memory. I sometimes wonder if I briefly had an out of body experience. 😂 12mo

BarbaraBB I am really shocked. I often don‘t remember what a book was about but not remembering that I read a book in the first place hasn‘t happened before, I think 👵🏼 12mo

vivastory @BarbaraBB If it's any consolation I recently started reading a short story collection thinking I had never read it & halfway through it I checked goodreads only to discover that I had read it 6 years ago 🙃 12mo

TheBookHippie The Observations is the only one I didn‘t read in your list!!!! Wow. 12mo

Ruthiella @TheBookHippie Wow! The Observations was great. I‘d recommend it to anyone who likes Sarah Waters. 12mo

Christine Worthy picks! Though I have to admit I‘ve never heard of Old Filth! 12mo

CarolynM Yep, big Atkinson fan. That one is probably my favourite Brodie (very hard to choose) I haven‘t read all of her non-Brodies yet @vivastory Of the ones I‘ve read I love Life After Life but my favourite is its companion novel

A God in Ruins

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batsy Purple Hibiscus, The Idiot, and Piranesi! 💜 So many here that I must read. 12mo

Tamra I‘m still irritated by the The Goldfinch. I was downright angry at the time! 🤣 12mo

TheKidUpstairs So many good ones! Totally stacking The Observations and Old Filth! 12mo

Ruthiella @CarolynM The way the plot of When Will There Be Good News winds up was so amazing. I still get goosebumps. (edited) 12mo

Ruthiella @batsy A lovely list of possibilities! 😃 12mo

Ruthiella @Tamra I get that! Donna Tart‘s style can be indulgent and long winded. 😆 12mo

Ruthiella @TheKidUpstairs I hope you enjoy them! 12mo

Caryl Ooh! Some of my favorites (Bel Canto, Old Filth, Purple Hibiscus, Life After Life) and some shelf-sitters I need to get to (Piranesi, The Idiot). 12mo

Ruthiella @Caryl so many books, so little time! I hope you enjoy both when you get to them. 😃 12mo

Readerann Have read 7 of these and mostly agree with you, especially on 1 and 2! (edited) 12mo

Ruthiella Both were the first I‘d read from Patchett and Kingsolver and they knocked it out of the park. 12mo

BkClubCare Oh my, there are 5 on this list that I have yet to read.🧐 12mo

Ruthiella @BkClubCare Looking through the shortlist, I saw lots of books I already have on my mental TBR. 12mo

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BarbaraBB

WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION JOURNAL. | THE. WOMEN'S PRIZE

Okay @TheKidUpstairs I checked out the history of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction and it turned out some of my all time favorites were nominated on it. So here are my #womensdozen (I didn‘t use books I already posted in my #bookerdozen post).

Titles below in the comments!

BarbaraBB Anne Michaels: Fugitive pieces
Helen Dunmore: A spell of winter
Yaa Gyasi: Transcedent kingdom
Jacqueline Woodson: Red at the bone
Valeria Luiselli: Lost children archive
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah
Elizabeth Strout: The Burgess boys
Siri Hustvedt: What I loved
Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
Margaret Atwood: Blind assassin
Jane Urquhart: The underpainter
Anna Quindlen: Black and blue 12mo

TheKidUpstairs Fugitive Pieces has been on my TBR since high school when a teacher recommended it. I'm thinking I should finally get to that one soon! Only 26 years late! 12mo

TheKidUpstairs And I really have to read Lost Children Archive. I absolutely loved

Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

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sarahbarnes Some great books here! And Fingersmith is on my list! 12mo

Ruthiella Great list! 👍 Looking at the Women‘s Prize shortlists over the years made me want to read all of them! Anna Qindlen is an author I need to try. (edited) 12mo

vivastory I feel like between the #bookerdozen & the #womensdozen I could easily be stocked up on books to read at least until the summer! So many wonderful recommendations on these posts & reminders of books that I have been meaning to read 💙 12mo

vivastory @TheKidUpstairs I saw a virtual event with several incredible authors early days of the pandemic & Valeria Luiselli read from that one & I haven't forgotten it. I keep meaning to read it. 12mo

BarbaraBB @TheKidUpstairs Thanks for the Luiselli recommendation! And looking at your choices I was thinking: I should finally read

Fall On Your Knees

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BarbaraBB @vivastory Yes! I felt a renewed appreciation for them: so many authors I probably wouldn‘t have discovered without them! (edited) 12mo

TheBookHippie Wellllll my my my we have a similar choice !!! 😳👀♥️😘

Fingersmith

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squirrelbrain Some great books! ❤️ 12mo

BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie Finally! And it‘s a good one 👌🏽 12mo

batsy Great list! Many I have yet to read but Fingersmith and The Blind Assassin are excellent 💜 12mo

Tamra Loved Blind Assassin! 12mo

TheKidUpstairs @BarbaraBB one of my favourites by one of my favourite authors! 12mo

Readerann I loved Americanah and The Blind Assasin. Anna Quindlen is a writer who I feel is predictable but I‘m perfectly happy to read anything she writes anyway! We only part ways at Elizabeth Strout. 😁 12mo

BarbaraBB @Readerann You‘re no Strout fan? I loved everything she‘s written 😃. I haven‘t read many Quindlen books but this one stood out at the time (long ago!) and I still remember it! 12mo

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TheKidUpstairs

Fall On Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald

The Women's Prize longlists have delivered some of my favourite reads over the past couple years. So, inspired by @vivastory and the #BookerDozen, I decided to look back at my top twelve reads from the history of the Women's/Orange Prize (Longlists, Shortlists, and Winners). Feel free to play along!

Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun

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TheKidUpstairs Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles
Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls
Louise Kennedy - Trespasses
Becky Chambers - Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Ann-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees 12mo

TheKidUpstairs #TwelveWomen #WomensDozen 12mo

TheKidUpstairs Tomorrow, maybe the Giller for a good dose of #CanLit? 12mo

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TheBookHippie The History of Love one of my all time favs! 12mo

BarbaraBB Another great list! I have to find an overview of all nominated books but that shouldn‘t be too much of a problem! 12mo

BarbaraBB How weird that we don‘t have any similarities (just posted my #womensdozen)! 12mo

TheKidUpstairs @BarbaraBB true. Speaks to the strength of the selection! My original list was about 40 books to narrow down to these 12. 12mo

ShelleyBooksie Fall on your knees - what a book! Bell Canto has been on my shelf.for several years but I've not picked.it up 12mo

Chelsea.Poole I love these lists! Some here I haven‘t read so I‘ll have to add to my ever-growing list 😆 I also have really enjoyed several of your selections, namely

The Namesake

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TheKidUpstairs @ShelleyBooksie I've been meaning to do a re-read of Fall on Your Knees since I saw the stage adaptation in Toronto last year. Such an exquisite gut-punch of a novel. And Bel Canto was my first Patchett, I fell in love with it. It was always my favourite of hers (but Tom Lake just may have passed it - it was as near to perfect as a book can get, IMO) 12mo

TheKidUpstairs @Chelsea.Poole Ah, the joys of a never-ending, ever-growing TBR! 12mo

Ruthiella Great idea! 12mo

vivastory This was such a great idea! 12mo

CarolynM Great idea. I will get on to it🙂 12mo

ShelleyBooksie I'm listening to Tom Lake on audio right now (my first Patchett). Meryl Streeps voice is an amazing narrator. 12mo

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