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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The Bookshop, the Gate of Angels, the Blue Flower (Everyman's Library (Alfred a. Knopf, Inc.).) by Penelope Fitzgerald (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
4 stars
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 1978 120pp
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
3 stars
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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Orbital by Samantha Harvey (duplicate)
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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J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 1977 135pp
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
4 stars
By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2011 150pp
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J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 1986 206pp
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J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2022 152pp
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Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle
4 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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Fever dream by Samanta Schweblin
5 stars
"A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's …
J. J. Zepfanman @...readers says: 2017 183pp. 2014 original in Spanish (Argentina).
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4 stars
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
