How many Man Booker Prize winning novels have you read?
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The 2017 Man Booker Prize has been awarded to American author George Saunders for his novel, ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’.
The Abraham Lincoln-inspired book focuses on the former president’s grief after the death of his young son and has landed the 58-year-old author a £50,000 prize.
The Man Booker Prize has been going on since 1969, awarding the top literary talent in the UK and beyond. Although most winners have been British, a few have come from the US as well as countries including South Africa, Australia and India.
But how many of the award-winning books have you actually read? (Probably too few if you’re anything like us.)
Last year’s winner, ‘The Sellout’ by Paul Beatty, details a young man’s isolated childhood and the slavery trial that lands him in the Supreme Court and is a perfect winter pick.
Or why not go for Hilary Mantel’s famous ‘Wolf Hall’: a book examining the relationship between Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII. It was turned into an award-winning BBC series starring the likes of Claire Foy, Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance.
Mantel’s sequel, the 2012 winner ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, is a more dramatic tale of Anne Boleyn’s treacherous trial while Anne Enright’s ‘The Gathering’ follows a large Irish family as they trace three generations of their secrets.
With Christmas on the horizon, it’s the perfect time to pick up a great novel or two.
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