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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Sep 28, 2017
Eimear McBride, who won the Baileys prize in 2014 for a first novel which had struggled to find a publisher, won Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black prize, for her second, The Lesser Bohemians.

McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians, in which an 18-year-old Irish girl comes to London and falls for an older actor, was described by judges as “an extraordinary rendering of a young woman’s consciousness as she eagerly embarks on a new life in London”.
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James Tait Black Memorial Prizes

Established in 1919, The James Tait Black Prizes are Britain's oldest literary awards. There are two book prizes, one for fiction and one for biography.

Rasputin: The Biography

Rasputin: The Biography

Douglas Smith

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A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the...

A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby

A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby

Joe Moshenska

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY and THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR...

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A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip

A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip

Alexander Masters

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Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder...

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez

Laura Cumming

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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. "The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant...

The Sport of Kings

The Sport of Kings

C.E. Morgan

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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Hunger in Books

Aug 2, 2017  
Hunger
Hunger
Roxane Gay | 2017 | Biography
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9.7 (3 Ratings)
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Extremely brave account of weight and trauma
Roxane Gay's deeply moving, hard-hitting biographical account of rape and its consequences is harrowing and triggering. The profound impact it had on her life goes to explain all her decision making as a result. Not to explain away her feelings of her weight, but it shows a small tenet of how trauma can have such devastating results. It can be a little repetitive from a literary perspective but it's well worth all the kudos.
  
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Erika (17788 KP) created a poll

Feb 15, 2020 (Updated Feb 16, 2020)  
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Fellow book lovers: Every year, I read a literary classic. Last year was @War and Peace. I'm having a hard time choosing for this year. This is my short-ish list thus far.

Edit: The reason these are kind of out there and not well known is because I've already read most of the mainstream classics.

Something else (suggestions welcome)

2 votes

@-s54c87d5d-ff4e-495b-89b4-53d512c3328d Stendhal

0 votes

@The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne Ann Radcliffe

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@The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella Charlotte Lennox

4 votes

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Elif Shafak recommended An Artist of the Floating World in Books (curated)

 
An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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"Set in post-Second World War Japan, this is a masterfully written novel by the British-Japanese author about ageing, solitude, art, memory and the endless tricks it plays on our minds… Ishiguro is the kind of writer who each time asks the reader to trust him, come along for a walk in an unknown territory, and if need be, change perspective. But he does all this with an unwavering modesty and quiet intelligence that only further contributes to his literary strength."

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