After realising that I hadn't read any of the longlisted novels for the Miles Franklin award, I was a little concerned about the upcoming longlists for other awards, like The Orange Prize and The Booker Prize. With The Orange Prize Longlist announced yesterday, my curiosity is sated, and I have actually read one (The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser)! Haven't heard of some of the others, but never mind, but Girl in a Blue Dress was already on my TBR list!
Debra Adelaide - The Household Guide to Dying
Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress
Lissa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half
Bernardine Evaristo - Blonde Roots
Ellen Feldman - Scottsboro
Laura Fish - Strange Music
V.V. Ganeshananthan - Love Marriage
Allegra Goodman - Intuition
Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness
Samantha Hunt - The Invention of Everything Else
Michelle de Kretser - The Lost Dog
Deirdre Madden - Molly Fox’s Birthday
Toni Morrison - A Mercy
Gina Ochsner - The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
Marilynne Robinson - Home
Preeta Samarasan - Evening is the Whole Day
Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows
Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
Miriam Toews - The Flying Troutmans
Ann Weisgarber - The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
I was getting a little worried as I was reading that list because most I hadn't even heard of, let alone read! I have Girl in a Blue Dress on my wish list, too. But, I have read one of them. Yay! The Flying Troutmans. Miriam Toews is a good writer!
ReplyDeleteI requested the first book from The Keys to the Kingdom series last night. I know I don't need another series on the go, but I have wanted to read that one for a while!
I have some of these on my wish list and some I actually do own but as usual, I've yet to read any. Why is that I'm always so behind on awards list nominees!
ReplyDeleteHi Marg, just wanted to let you know I have just nominated you to receive the “When Life Gives You Lemons” blog award, on my Margo Treehugger Blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks Margo!
ReplyDeleteI don't know the answer to that question Iliana, but if you figure it out could you please let me know what you came up with as it is likey that my reasons will be similar!
Kailana, it's not a bad series. I am looking forward to getting to Sabriel etc once I finish ths series.