Let’s chat about the Booker Prize and the books from the Longlist I read/bought.
The Booker Prize: [ Ссылка ]
Samuel’s BookerPrize Tag @SamuelDaram: [ Ссылка ]

Books I read:
Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, The Serial Killer / debut (November 2018): [ Ссылка ]
Brian’s review @Bookish: [ Ссылка ]

Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive (Feb 2019): [ Ссылка ]

Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein (May 2019): [ Ссылка ]

BookHaul:
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (May 2019): [ Ссылка ]

Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes, 30 Seconds in This Strange World (June 2019): [ Ссылка ]

Lucy Ellman, Ducks, Newburyport (July 2019): [ Ссылка ]
Eric’s review @lonesomereader: [ Ссылка ]
Eric’s shortlist predictions: [ Ссылка ]

Books I also want to read, no matter whether they make the shortlist or not:
Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything (August 2019): [ Ссылка ]

Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (10 September 2019): [ Ссылка ]

The Longlist 2019:
• Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)
• Kevin Barry (Ireland), Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate Books)
• Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria), My Sister, The Serial Killer (Atlantic Books)
• Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press)
• Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton)
• John Lanchester (UK), The Wall (Faber & Faber)
• Deborah Levy (UK), The Man Who Saw Everything (Hamish Hamilton)
• Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy), Lost Children Archive (4th Estate)
• Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown)
• Max Porter (UK), Lanny (Faber & Faber)
• Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte (Jonathan Cape)
• Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking)
• Jeanette Winterson (UK), Frankissstein (Jonathan Cape)

Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com
twitter: [ Ссылка ]
goodreads: [ Ссылка ]
facebook: [ Ссылка ]
Instagram: [ Ссылка ]

By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: [ Ссылка ]

I also wrote some books:
The Decision (2015): [ Ссылка ]
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): [ Ссылка ]

Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): [ Ссылка ]

as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
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and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
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