Literary award winners can be super hit or miss, depending on what you're into. But these are titles I wish I could read again for the first time.
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The Booker Prize
International Booker Prize
The Booker Prize
Tree-tales you can't (and shouldn't) ignore.
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Intense dystopian. After her husband disappears, a mother of 4 tries to protect her family from totalitarianism.
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
I adore everything about this novella. It's short and beautifully written. Portraying human connections and isolation in rural Ireland.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Banned book in US. Set in the new America called Republic of Gilead. The story feels so so real due to its parallels with historical and contemporary societal issues.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
International Booker Prize
Page turner. A novelist on a mysterious island helps her editor, who remembers everything that's "disappeared", plan an escape from the Memory Police.
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Eerie. A Korean woman's decision to go vegetarian completely changed her life. But it was merely a symptom of deeper issues.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Exploring themes of motherhood, guilt and self-discovery. In Buenos Aires, Elena, a middle-aged woman struggling to reconnect with her estranged daughter.
