thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-best-short-books-novels-from-the-booker-prizes-library Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
10 short Booker Prize books Public
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2022 116pp
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The bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" ( Times Literary Supplement ), …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 1978 120pp
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J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 1977 135pp
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4 stars
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2024 136pp
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The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes
4 stars
The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel written by British author Julian Barnes. The book is Barnes's eleventh …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2011 150pp
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J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2022 152pp
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Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle
3 stars
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2022 173pp. Original 2007 in Spanish (Argentina).
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Distancia de rescate by Samanta Schweblin
3 stars
Fever Dream (Spanish: Distancia de rescate) is a 2014 novel by Samanta Schweblin. An English translation by Megan McDowell was …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2017 183pp. 2014 original in Spanish (Argentina).
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Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2016 192pp
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J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 1986 206pp
