TOP 10 Best Booker Prize Winners Results at 10Bestify.com
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Ordinary Grace
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But f... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 1451645856
- UPC: 884740901625
- ASIN: 1451645856
- ISBN: 1451645856
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
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Red Mountain: A Novel
"Best book I've read in over 50 years... since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." - LibraMysticA Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection and Amazon Charts BestsellerHow well do we really know each other? Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics. Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon--fully nude. Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex. High school senior Emilia Forester is the daughter of celebrity parents struggling to build her own life outside of their shadow. And Brooks Baker is a man haunted by his past spent living on the streets as an orphan. Somehow, everyone lives together harmoniously, their li... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 0991301870
- ASIN: 0991301870
- ISBN: 0991301870
- Manufacturer: Sandy Run Press
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The Life We Bury
A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder. As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Joe, along with his skeptical femal... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 1616149981
- ASIN: 1616149981
- ISBN: 1616149981
- Brand: Seventh Street Books
- Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books
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Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZENational BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2017A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award and the California Book Award "I could not love LESS more."--Ron Charles, Washington Post"Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book ReviewWho says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in th... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 031631613X
- ASIN: 031631613X
- ISBN: 031631613X
- Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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The Keepers of the House
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise.Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven generations, been pillars of their Southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail Howland, but not all of it. When shocking facts come to light about her late grandfather William’s relationship with Margaret Carmichael, a black housekeeper, the community is outraged, and quickly gathers to vent its fury on Abigail. Alone in the house the Howlands built, she is at once shaken by those who have betrayed her, and determined to punish the town that has persecuted her and her kin. Morally intricate, gracefu... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 1400030749
- ASIN: 1400030749
- ISBN: 1400030749
- Brand: Grau, Shirley Ann
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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The Overstory: A Novel
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeNew York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018 "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." ―Ann PatchettThe Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 039335668X
- ASIN: 039335668X
- ISBN: 039335668X
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostIn The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 0804171475
- ASIN: 0804171475
- ISBN: 9780804171472
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and inventedNamed One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, USA Today, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR • One of Time’s Ten Best Novels of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book • One of O: The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of the Year February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved ele... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 0812985400
- ASIN: 0812985400
- ISBN: 0812985400
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel
- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with on... [Read More] Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 1250153964
- ASIN: 1250153964
- ISBN: 9781250153968
- Manufacturer: A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
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The Master: A Novel
“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. With stunningly resonant prose, “The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful” (The New York Times Book Review). The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting. Best Booker Prize Winners
- ASIN: 0743250419
- ASIN: 0743250419
- ISBN: 0743250419
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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Something to Answer for: The First Man Booker Prize Winner
To celebrate 50 years of the Man Booker Prize, the inaugural winner now returns to print"Newby deserved, and deserves, more attention."—The Paris ReviewIt is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably certain. He has been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend, Elie Khoury. She is convinced that Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What about Leah Strauss, the mistress? And the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for granted that the British have behaved themselves. In this disorientating world Townrow must assess the rules Best Booker Prize Winners To celebrate 50 years of the Man Booker Prize, the inaugural winner now returns to print"Newby deserved, and deserves, more attention."—The Paris ReviewIt is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably certain. He has been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend, Elie Khoury. She is convinced that Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What about Leah Strauss, the mistress? And the invading British paratroops? Only an Englishman, surely, would take for granted that the British have behaved themselves. In this disorientating world Townrow must assess the rules
- UPC: 953771836
- Rating: 3.0
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A Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER of the Man Booker Prize 2015 (Paperback)
Books : A Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER of the Man Booker Prize 2015 (Paperback) Best Booker Prize Winners SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: WIRED GQ BBC CULTURE NEW YORK TIMES Michiko Kakutani WASHINGTON POST ELECTRIC LITERATURE TIME PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AMAZON HUFFINGTON POST CHICAGO TRIBUNE NEWSWEEK WALL STREET JOURNAL HOUSTON CHRONICLE LIBRARY JOURNAL BOOKPAGE POPSUGAR BUZZFEED SALON Laura Miller KANSAS CITY STAR L MAGAZINE SEATTLE TIMES BOSTON GLOBE JAMAICA 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling
- UPC: 616636902
- Rating: 3.656
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Bob Dylan Adult Coloring Book: Legendary Nobel Prize Winner and the Best American Poet, Famous Rock'n'Roll Revolutionary and Musical Prodigy Adult Co
Bob Dylan Adult Coloring Book: Legendary Nobel Prize Winner and the Best American Poet, Famous Rock'n'Roll Revolutionary and Musical Prodigy Adult Best Booker Prize Winners Bob Dylan Adult Coloring Book: Legendary Nobel Prize Winner and the Best American Poet, Famous Rock'n'Roll Revolutionary and Musical Prodigy Adult
- UPC: 590978449
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The Best of Border Voices : Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Wisdom of Kids
San Diego's Border Voices has been one of the nation's largest poetry festivals for fourteen years, featuring nationally renowned poets, prize winning student poets from San Diego county, and a cadre of poetry teachers from throughout the school district. This poetry book collects together the best poems from fourteen years of festivals, featuring poems by students, teachers, and national poets. Includes biographical notes on major poets. Major poets include Francisco X. Alarcn, Billy Collins, Robert Creeley, Dana Gioia, Galway Kinnell, Steve Kowit, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Luis Rodrguez, Gary Snyder, Gary Soto, and Mark Best Booker Prize Winners San Diego's Border Voices has been one of the nation's largest poetry festivals for fourteen years, featuring nationally renowned poets, prize winning student poets from San Diego county, and a cadre of poetry teachers from throughout the school district. This poetry book collects together the best poems from fourteen years of festivals, featuring poems by students, teachers, and national poets. Includes biographical notes on major poets. Major poets include Francisco X.
- UPC: 120153946
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Alligator Canoe 1924 Nfirst Prize Winner For The Best Canoe At The Canoe Regatta And Water Carnival On The Tidal Basin In Washington DC Photographed On 4 August 1924 Rolled Canvas Art - (24 x 36)
Alligator Canoe 1924. /Nfirst Prize Winner For The Best Canoe At The Canoe Regatta And Water Carnival On The Tidal Basin In Washington D.C. Photographed On 4 August 1924. was licensed and carefully printed on only the finest Canvas which captures all of the details and visual colors and elements of the original work of art. This museum quality Canvas Art piece was faithfully reproduced using ultra-precision print technology and fade-resistant archival inks on artist premium acid-free grade canvas. The dimensions are 24 x 36 inches plus an additonal 2 inches of extra canvas on all 4 sides to allow Best Booker Prize Winners Alligator Canoe 1924 Nfirst Prize Winner For The Best Canoe At The Canoe Regatta And Water Carnival On The Tidal Basin In Washington DC Photographed On 4 August 1924 Rolled Canvas Art - (24 x
- UPC: 756037611
- Model: CNV435227762784
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3 Man Booker Prize Winners | Book Reviews
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Booker Prize: Writing Lessons from the Top Ten Winners
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The Man Booker Prize Challenge
The Booker Prize turns 50 this year! What’s your favourite past winner and how many winners do you think you can read before the end of May? Here I chat about some of my top picks from past years. ... Booktube,Book Tube,Booker Prize,#ManBooker50,The Sea,the Sea by Iris Murdoch,The Bone People by K...
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