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The 2022 NBCC winners are as follows:
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Poetry: Hotel Oblivion – Cynthia Cruz
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Bio: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover – B. Gage – READING
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Criticism: Free Indirect: – T. Bewes
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Autobiography: Stay True – Hua Hsu
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Nonfiction: The Method – I. Butler
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Fiction: Bliss Montage: Stories – Ling Ma
#Books TBR 2023
2023: National Book Critics Circle – winners
2023: Orwell Prize for Political Fiction – finalists
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The eight novels nominated for
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The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023:
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Small Worlds – Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton
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Bournville – Jonathan Coe
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The New Life – Tom Crewe
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A House for Alice – Diana Evans
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The Story of the Forest – Linda Grant
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Demon Copperhead – B. Kingsolver – READING
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After Sappho – Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Prize Ceremony – 22nd June 2023
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Ling Ma interests me – I meant to read Severance, but didn’t get around to it. I’d like to read Kurkov, but realistically I’m not sure we would get on.
Surprisingly I’ve read 2 books from the Orwell shortlist – After Sappho and Bournville. Birnum Wood is on my TBR and I’d been keen to check out the Linda Grant too. I’ve been eyeing off Tom Crewe’s book at work – too many books; not enough time!
I love the Orwell selections…political fiction is my thing! National Book Critics Circle awards, don’t see much about their winners but the seem to choose some very good books! This time 2 Pulitzer winners that I’m keen to read! Agree…so much to read…so much universe and not enough time!
Did you review After Sappho and Bournville on your blog? I’ll have to go and check!
Thanks for your comments!
Yes I did but I see you already found them. I particularly loved After Sappho & still think about it. I would like to read some of the women referenced by her.
I’d like to read Trust, but I’m not a Kingsolver fan so will give that one a miss.
I’ve just bought last year’s Orwell Prize winner Sally Hayden’s critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned after coming around to discovering this writer from an essay she wrote about the present day conflict in Khartoum, Sudan. I read a few articles as background while reading Scottish/Sudanese author Leila Aboulela’s new novel ‘River Spirit’.
I recall now that you also read this book and rated it very highly.
All that to say that I usually have a roundabout, interconnected way of coming to books and authors. I look at the lists but that’s not sufficient for me to want to read them. I’m not sure there’s if there’s anything like Hayden’s work on the list this year. Must start it actually!
I did read Birnam Wood and it was interesting but ultimately not for me. I tend to be hit and miss with Coe, but he’s very popular here in France and visits often, he’s intrigued to discover many here have read all his works, so he has to sept up on them himself as the genre if questions he get asked as a result are unlike elsewhere.
Hayden’s book is at times “difficult to digest”. There is so much happening within the migrant crisis that we just never see in the news. Hayden’s book is exceptional…but very shocking. After having read a few Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction, I’m wary of starting anymore. I’ll venture more into biography, general non-fiction, memoir and poetry.
Yes, I’m trying to stick with my own TBR but noise just tempt us off down side roads of reading. I’m reading Whale at the moment, on the intl booker list and I have Fire Rush for the women’s prize, but definitely in a mood reading phase tight now. I may start Hayden’s book this weekend and see if it pulls me in, we have a lot of rain days ahead post drought like conditions, so perfect reading weather!