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Requests for books without trade will be IGNORED, unless I already know you. Well, perhaps not completely ignored... you'll go on my personal blacklist. But you won't get any reply, and you certainly won't get any book.
Just FYI.
Each participant buys one of the shortlisted books, and we share them with the other participants as bookrings. The owner of each book may set the rules for their own bookring.
Please PM me if you're interested, along with the book you'd prefer to purchase - since we try to cover the whole shortlist, first in generally gets first choice!
If you'd rather pick one of the longlisted titles, feel free to.
If you don't want to buy anything you can still join in - just expect to be placed fairly well down the bookring order.
| Shortlist | ||
| * Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | LadyIndigo |
| * Carol Birch | Jamrach's Menagerie | Jubby |
| * Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers | Fleebo |
| * Esi Edugyan | Half Blood Blues | |
| * Stephen Kelman | Pigeon English | |
| * A D Miller | Snowdrops | tqd |
| miss-jo | ||
| goodthinkingmax |
Each participant buys one of the longlisted books, and makes it into a bookring for all of the other participants.
Even if all of the shortlisted titles are covered, you can still contribute a longlisted title or just request that your name be added to the end of the bookrings. Contact me to be included.
Each bookring is run by the book's owner, and the owner has the right to arrange the bookring order as they see fit. If you don't want to join all of the rings, the person to contact for each book is in the list below.
| Shortlist | |||
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | FreePages | |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | goodthinkingmax | |
| Damon Galgut | In a Strange Room | miss-jo | |
| Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question - WINNER | jubby | |
| Andrea Levy | The Long Song | tqd | |
| Tom McCarthy | C | livrecache | |
| Longlist | |||
| Helen Dunmore | The Betrayal | ||
| David Mitchell | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | ||
| Lisa Moore | February | ||
| Paul Murray | Skippy Dies | Fleebo | |
| Rose Tremain | Trespass | ||
| Christos Tsiolkas | The Slap | ||
| Alan Warner | The Stars in the Bright Sky | Fleebo | |
Each participant buys one of the longlisted books, and makes it into a bookring for all of the other participants.
Even if all of the shortlisted titles are covered, you can still contribute a longlisted title or just request that your name be added to the end of the bookrings. Contact me to be included.
Each bookring is run by the book's owner, and the owner has the right to arrange the bookring order as they see fit. If you don't want to join all of the rings, the person to contact for each book is in the list below.
| Shortlist | |||
| Byatt, AS | The Children's Book | FreePages | |
| Coetzee, J M | Summertime | livrecache | |
| Foulds, Adam | The Quickening Maze | star-light | |
| Mantel, Hilary | Wolf Hall | jubby | WINNER |
| Mawer, Simon | The Glass Room | Fleebo | |
| Waters, Sarah | The Little Stranger | goodthinkingmax | |
| Longlist | |||
| Hall, Sarah | How to Paint a Dead Man | ||
| Harvey, Samantha | The Wilderness | ||
| Lever, James | Me Cheeta | ||
| O'Loughlin, Ed | Not Untrue & Not Unkind | miss-jo | |
| Scudamore, James | Heliopolis | ||
| Toibin, Colm | Brooklyn | Sujie | |
| Trevor, William | Love and Summer | ||
| tqd | |||
Each participant commits to buying one of the books, and making it a bookring available to all of the other participants. Please PM me to join and tell me which book you are purchasing.
You can still be part of the fun without buying - just expect to wait a little longer for your turn to read.
| Winner | |
| Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger | livrecache |
| Shortlist | |
| Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture | DrCris |
| Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies | star-light |
| Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs | tqd |
| Philip Hensher - The Northern Clemency | miss-jo |
| Steve Toltz - A Fraction of the Whole | jubby |
| Longlist | |
| Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress | Sujie |
| Michelle de Kretser - The Lost Dog | goodthinkingmax |
| John Berger - From A to X | |
| Mohammed Hanif - A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Fleebo |
| Joseph O’Neill - Netherland | |
| Salman Rushdie - The Enchantress of Florence | FreePages |
| Tom Rob Smith - Child 44 | Fleebo |
Each participant commits to buying (at least) one of the shortlisted books, and making it a bookring available to all of the other participants. Are you up for it?
Even if all of the shortlisted titles are covered, you can still contribute a longlisted title or just request that your name be added to the end of the six shortlist rings. Contact me to be included in the list below.
Each bookring is run by the book's owner, and the owner has the right to arrange the bookring order as they see fit. If you want to join just one of the rings, the person to contact is in the list below.
| Bookrings | Contact | |
| Darkmans by Nicola Barker | frangipani08 | |
| The Gathering by Anne Enright | FreePages | WINNER |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid | jubby | |
| Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones | Fleebo | |
| On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan | livrecache | |
| Animal’s People by Indra Sinha | DrCris | |
| The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng | star-light | Longlisted |
| Gifted by Nikita Lalwani | goodthinkingmax | Longlisted |
| tqd | ||
| miss-jo | ||
| The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies | Fleebo | Longlisted |
Last year's Longlist Challenge was a great success but bloody hard work. This year we'll stick with the six shortlisted books, and then we might actually finish before next year's competition. (The 2005 challenge isn't over yet!)
Each participant commits to buying (at least) one of the shortlisted books, and making it a bookring available to all of the other participants. Are you up for it?
Even if all of the shortlisted titles are covered, you can still contribute a longlisted title or just request that your name be added to the end of the six shortlist rings. Contact me to be included.
| Currently running rings | Contact | ||
| Matar, Hisham - In the Country of Men | miss-jo | Bookring complete | |
| Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch | goodthinkingmax | Bookring complete | |
| St Aubyn, Edward - Mother’s Milk | xoddam | Bookring complete | |
| Hyland, M.J. - Carry Me Down | jubby | Bookring complete | |
| Desai, Kiran - The Inheritance of Loss | Fleebo | WINNER | |
| woosang | |||
| Grenville, Kate - The Secret River | Sujie | Bookring complete |
Booker 2005 Longlist
The longlist of entries for the 2005 Man Booker Prize has been released - 17 books chosen from 109 entries. I'd love to read them all, but I can't afford 17 brand-new books. So here's....
The Booker 2005 Longlist Challenge! (Australia/NZ only please) Be part of up to 17 consecutive bookrings!
Order of each bookring is at the discretion of the owner. If you'd like to join a ring, please PM the owner of the book.
| Currently running rings: | ||||
| Harry Thompson - This Thing of Darkness | (Fleebo - AU) | read | ||
| Sebastian Barry - A Long Long Way | (Fleebo) | Shortlisted | read | |
| Rachel Cusk - In the Fold | (Fleebo) | read | ||
| Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | (woosang - AU) | read | ||
| Tash Aw - The Harmony Silk Factory | (woosang - AU) | read | ||
| JM Coetzee - Slow Man | (woosang) | read | ||
| James Meek - The People's Act of Love | (woosang) | |||
| Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black | (goodthinkingmax - AU) | read | ||
| William Wall - This Is The Country | (goodthinkingmax - AU) | read | ||
| Dan Jacobson - All For Love | (goodthinkingmax - AU) | read | ||
| Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go | (Alectoness - NZ) | Shortlisted | read | |
| Ian McEwan - Saturday | (puppymummy - AU) | read | ||
| John Banville - The Sea | (Viola7 - AU) | WINNER | read | |
| Zadie Smith - On Beauty | (xoddam - AU) | Shortlisted | read | |
| Julian Barnes - Arthur & George | (xoddam - AU) | Shortlisted | read | |
| Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown | (xoddam - AU) | half-read | ||
| Ali Smith - The Accidental | (star-light - AU) | Shortlisted | read | |
