Thanks for this roundup . I'm not a book prize watcher so this has been a great help . I read Tomb of Sand and Books Of Jacob back to back and loved them both . Have ordered a few more now from my library where I can . I think Osebol sounds fascinating and When Women Kill , both of which passed me by ..neither at my library, sadly ...would also like to give a shout to The BookTube prize ...a reader led prize here on BookTube with its own website and currently recruiting readers for 2023.
I just finished “Small Things Like These” today and adored it but it definitely reinforced my opinion on Novellas being the cruelest art form that ever existed. I wanted this to be a 400 page epic because I loved what we were able to see of Bill Furlong’s arc. Oh and I actually loved “The Book of Form and Emptiness” - one of my favorites from this year. The Magician was fantastic, too! So glad I picked it up.
This definitely underscores for me that 2022 has been a year of surprises in book prizes. I loved Trespasses and Small Things Like These (I actually thought Foster was even stronger). Definitely agree about the ending of Small Pleasures, which turned a book I was delighted by into a book I wanted to throw across the room. Lauren Groff is a gem, as is Colm Toibin.
A great recap of this years prize winners, Eric. I was just thinking about a summary like this and really happy that you've put one together. My favourite of the year hasn't made any lists, lol. Here Goes Nothing by Steve Tolz. He was up for the Booker in 2007, if memory serves correctly. It has some Seven Moons vibes but it's Australian and resonated more for me. I think Seven Moons was a very worthy winner of The Booker, Sri Lanka has been through a lot and has a fascinating culture, but it didn't hold my heart like Here Goes Nothing. It might still be eligible for the 2023 Miles Franklin longlist, I'd have to check the publishing date. I've read a few of those, Sorrow and Bliss, Small Things like these, The Seven Moons.... and dipped into Drop Bear. A few have been on my TBR - I'll get to The Book of Form and Emptiness and The Years in 2023, both are on my library reserves . I read a number of Australian prizes too. Bodies of Light by Jennifer Downs, this year's Miles Franklin winner was well written but relentlessly bleak about a survivor of the Australian Foster system and coping without family as an adult (more to it but I don't want to give it away). I've read a number of memoirs of Australians who have been through the foster system and I value those accounts more than this year's MF winner. The prettiest horse in the glue factory by Corey White is a memoir that should be given more attention. On the 2022 Miles Franklin longlist I enjoyed After Story by Larissa Behrendt and The Performance by Claire Thomas more than the winner, both fabulous novels. Lots to think about in those. I remember them vividly and still want to reread them. Because Drop Bear is a number of short pieces in different styles some resonate with me more than others, but I think I might benefit from dipping in and out of it rather than reading it from front to back. I like Evelyn Araluen's work, she's an Indigenous writer, who is one to watch. I think she has a masterpiece in her. I had covid and so did my family (all good now) when the longlist was announced and a couple of other things meant I still have some books on the 2022 Stella longlist to read. I listened to Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au on audiobook, which was successful in a few Australian prizes. I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time but didn't find it memorable, another one I feel like revisiting. Jessica Au is a beautiful writer.
I love watching your prize predictions and reactions but I could see this comparison being my favorite video that you'll make each year (my prediction for 2023 and beyond) 😃
I know Annie Ernaux is greatly esteemed, but I bounce off her work quite strongly. I read Girls Story, Woman’s Story and Getting Lost and didn’t gel with any of them. Alas 😓 However this years Booker I was so thrilled with! And Tomb of Sand is on my tbr, but I am still working my way through Books of Jacob so it might be a hot minute 😂 I also always get a little bit peeved with the Pulitzer every year. They always seem to pick odd books
Great video. It was neat seeing all of the winners together like this. Several I still want to read too I look forward to hearing your thoughts on The Sleeping Car Porter if you get a chance to read it. 😊💙
The Magician is Magical. And it's about his whole life. I usually struggle with historical fiction, but this one was superb. Succinct yet full of details and wonderful character insight (and development). I highly recommend it
I have read a number of these, and Eric you must get around to The Magician which is very good. As for Australian prizes, I didn't like Drop Bear and DNF'd it. The Miles Franklin award was won by Jennifer Down for her novel Bodies of Light which I found very triggering and didn't enjoy for that reason. The Readings Prize for best new Australian fiction was awarded to Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au.
great summary, i've only read 3 out of these but i agree that books that win multiple awards are worth looking into, will look into rubbit hutch further
Fabulous wrap up! Of the ones I haven’t read - all but one fit into that category - I’m most interested in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sorrow and Bliss, and Open Water. Read my first by Ernaux recently, Happening: let’s just say it shall not be my last!
Can you please take note once, just once, of Canada's Giller Prize? This year's winner in particular: Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter. Also the very new Atwood/Gibson Prize, this year awarded to the brilliant Nicolas Herring for Some Hellish. Thank you, thank you.
I loved The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. Absolutely well-deserved Booker win in my opinion. I thought Tombs of Sand was alright but I think Books of Jacob was the better book and should have won the International Booker. I've read the Netanyahus and liked it. Not sure what the other nominees were but it was a good book.
What is the expression? That’s what makes horse races. I absolutely loved Ruth Ozeki’s book. I read it in a couple of big gulps. Regardless, there are many books that you have recommended that I have enjoyed.
Ugh I too have a copy of The Magician that’s still hanging out, unread. I got about halfway through Mercury Pictures Presents before I took the CPA exam and it’s FANTASTIC but now I probably need to start the whole thing over because the CPA fog is real.
I keep meaning to read Mercury Pictures Presents. It’s annoying when I get busy so I don’t have time to finish a book and need to restart it. Though if it has a lot of characters or complicated plot it helps to understand it better.
Loved, loved, loved Small Things Like These. Struggling to convince myself to read Ruth Ozeki’s prize-winner - I don’t like child narrators usually, and the Best Book of the Year at Indigo (Canada’s larger bookstore chain) is Celeste Ng’s new book Our Missing Hearts, which is half narrated by a 12(?) year old. I feel like it’s a theme recently.
I think I'm the only person to find Sorrow and Bliss boring and pretentious. (It's depiction of mental health felt privileged to me). Loved Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and Small Things Like These.
I hated The Netanyahus, i think it's the Pulitzer winner that i liked less ever. I'm waiting for The seven moons of Maali Almeida, but i think i'll have to wait a bit (Shuggie Bain and The promise were published here a year later)
You and Peg need to get together and chew the fat about book prizes. I’ve read Tresspasses The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida The Netanyahus Small Pleasures Small Things Like These I can’t get a copy of The Sleeping Car Porter 🍀👋☘️📚📖☕️📕😊
Thanks for the mention! I was just thinking about how great it is that Eric has become the prize guru....in my old age I am happier to go with his wonderful picks instead of trying to read them all myself. Go Eric!🥰📚📕🥳
Depending on where you are, check independent bookstores. I’m in Canada and had to do that for some of the Women’s Prize shortlist, and The Sleeping Car Porter seemed sold out everywhere except my local book sellers 😊
This is great! There’s also the Booktube prize winners - ‘The Lovesongs of W.E.B Du Bois, ‘The Anomoly’ and ‘How the word is passed’
Thanks for this roundup . I'm not a book prize watcher so this has been a great help . I read Tomb of Sand and Books Of Jacob back to back and loved them both . Have ordered a few more now from my library where I can . I think Osebol sounds fascinating and When Women Kill , both of which passed me by ..neither at my library, sadly ...would also like to give a shout to The BookTube prize ...a reader led prize here on BookTube with its own website and currently recruiting readers for 2023.
Thanks! I need to block out time to read Books of Jacob at some point.
@@EricKarlAnderson I know the feeling ..I'm still working my way through Trollope !
I love to watch your videos following the prizes so this one was the crème de la crème 👌🏼
Thank you! 😊📚
I just finished “Small Things Like These” today and adored it but it definitely reinforced my opinion on Novellas being the cruelest art form that ever existed. I wanted this to be a 400 page epic because I loved what we were able to see of Bill Furlong’s arc.
Oh and I actually loved “The Book of Form and Emptiness” - one of my favorites from this year.
The Magician was fantastic, too! So glad I picked it up.
Yeah, it would have been fascinating to read more of his story but so impressive she made such a concentrated tale so powerful.
Really enjoyed this video so much fun hearing about all these book prize winners.Just starting Rabbit Hutch drawn right in.
The Rabbit Hutch was great, so much beautiful figurative language in it
This definitely underscores for me that 2022 has been a year of surprises in book prizes. I loved Trespasses and Small Things Like These (I actually thought Foster was even stronger). Definitely agree about the ending of Small Pleasures, which turned a book I was delighted by into a book I wanted to throw across the room. Lauren Groff is a gem, as is Colm Toibin.
A great recap of this years prize winners, Eric. I was just thinking about a summary like this and really happy that you've put one together.
My favourite of the year hasn't made any lists, lol. Here Goes Nothing by Steve Tolz. He was up for the Booker in 2007, if memory serves correctly. It has some Seven Moons vibes but it's Australian and resonated more for me. I think Seven Moons was a very worthy winner of The Booker, Sri Lanka has been through a lot and has a fascinating culture, but it didn't hold my heart like Here Goes Nothing. It might still be eligible for the 2023 Miles Franklin longlist, I'd have to check the publishing date.
I've read a few of those, Sorrow and Bliss, Small Things like these, The Seven Moons.... and dipped into Drop Bear.
A few have been on my TBR - I'll get to The Book of Form and Emptiness and The Years in 2023, both are on my library reserves
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I read a number of Australian prizes too. Bodies of Light by Jennifer Downs, this year's Miles Franklin winner was well written but relentlessly bleak about a survivor of the Australian Foster system and coping without family as an adult (more to it but I don't want to give it away). I've read a number of memoirs of Australians who have been through the foster system and I value those accounts more than this year's MF winner. The prettiest horse in the glue factory by Corey White is a memoir that should be given more attention.
On the 2022 Miles Franklin longlist I enjoyed After Story by Larissa Behrendt and The Performance by Claire Thomas more than the winner, both fabulous novels. Lots to think about in those. I remember them vividly and still want to reread them.
Because Drop Bear is a number of short pieces in different styles some resonate with me more than others, but I think I might benefit from dipping in and out of it rather than reading it from front to back. I like Evelyn Araluen's work, she's an Indigenous writer, who is one to watch. I think she has a masterpiece in her. I had covid and so did my family (all good now) when the longlist was announced and a couple of other things meant I still have some books on the 2022 Stella longlist to read.
I listened to Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au on audiobook, which was successful in a few Australian prizes. I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time but didn't find it memorable, another one I feel like revisiting. Jessica Au is a beautiful writer.
I love watching your prize predictions and reactions but I could see this comparison being my favorite video that you'll make each year (my prediction for 2023 and beyond) 😃
Awe, thank you! 😊📚
I know Annie Ernaux is greatly esteemed, but I bounce off her work quite strongly. I read Girls Story, Woman’s Story and Getting Lost and didn’t gel with any of them. Alas 😓
However this years Booker I was so thrilled with! And Tomb of Sand is on my tbr, but I am still working my way through Books of Jacob so it might be a hot minute 😂
I also always get a little bit peeved with the Pulitzer every year. They always seem to pick odd books
Great video. It was neat seeing all of the winners together like this. Several I still want to read too
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on The Sleeping Car Porter if you get a chance to read it. 😊💙
Thank you! 😊📚
The Magician is Magical. And it's about his whole life. I usually struggle with historical fiction, but this one was superb. Succinct yet full of details and wonderful character insight (and development). I highly recommend it
Absolutely agree - my book of 2022
Yay, new video! Thank you! Love your new profile pic!
I loved Small Things Like Things and The Sleeping Car Porter. I also read my first Annie Ernaux, Happening, which was quite powerful.
Yes, Happening was so moving!
I have read a number of these, and Eric you must get around to The Magician which is very good. As for Australian prizes, I didn't like Drop Bear and DNF'd it. The Miles Franklin award was won by Jennifer Down for her novel Bodies of Light which I found very triggering and didn't enjoy for that reason. The Readings Prize for best new Australian fiction was awarded to Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au.
Thanks, I hope to find time for Toibin’s novel over winter. I wish I’d know about Au winning that prize. I thought it was an interesting novel.
great summary, i've only read 3 out of these but i agree that books that win multiple awards are worth looking into, will look into rubbit hutch further
Thanks! Yep, gotta squeeze the rabbits in
Loved Small Things Like These.
Thanks for sharing us this books 📚
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Fabulous wrap up! Of the ones I haven’t read - all but one fit into that category - I’m most interested in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sorrow and Bliss, and Open Water. Read my first by Ernaux recently, Happening: let’s just say it shall not be my last!
Thank you! So glad you're onto Ernaux.
Women's prize last year should have been won by "The Island of Missing Trees" by Elif Shafak. It's amazing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Can you please take note once, just once, of Canada's Giller Prize? This year's winner in particular: Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter. Also the very new Atwood/Gibson Prize, this year awarded to the brilliant Nicolas Herring for Some Hellish. Thank you, thank you.
What do you mean just once? I talk about the Giller Prize and this year's winner at 22:47 in this video.
@@EricKarlAnderson Sorry, sorry! I missed it. Thank you! Merci!
I was introduced to Mo Yan because his Nobel win. Likewise, I first read Salman Rushdie because of his Booker Prize win.
I loved The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. Absolutely well-deserved Booker win in my opinion.
I thought Tombs of Sand was alright but I think Books of Jacob was the better book and should have won the International Booker.
I've read the Netanyahus and liked it. Not sure what the other nominees were but it was a good book.
What is the expression? That’s what makes horse races. I absolutely loved Ruth Ozeki’s book. I read it in a couple of big gulps. Regardless, there are many books that you have recommended that I have enjoyed.
Ugh I too have a copy of The Magician that’s still hanging out, unread. I got about halfway through Mercury Pictures Presents before I took the CPA exam and it’s FANTASTIC but now I probably need to start the whole thing over because the CPA fog is real.
I keep meaning to read Mercury Pictures Presents. It’s annoying when I get busy so I don’t have time to finish a book and need to restart it. Though if it has a lot of characters or complicated plot it helps to understand it better.
Loved, loved, loved Small Things Like These. Struggling to convince myself to read Ruth Ozeki’s prize-winner - I don’t like child narrators usually, and the Best Book of the Year at Indigo (Canada’s larger bookstore chain) is Celeste Ng’s new book Our Missing Hearts, which is half narrated by a 12(?) year old. I feel like it’s a theme recently.
It does seem to be in a lot of recent novels.
I think I'm the only person to find Sorrow and Bliss boring and pretentious. (It's depiction of mental health felt privileged to me). Loved Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and Small Things Like These.
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I hated The Netanyahus, i think it's the Pulitzer winner that i liked less ever.
I'm waiting for The seven moons of Maali Almeida, but i think i'll have to wait a bit (Shuggie Bain and The promise were published here a year later)
You and Peg need to get together and chew the fat about book prizes.
I’ve read
Tresspasses
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
The Netanyahus
Small Pleasures
Small Things Like These
I can’t get a copy of
The Sleeping Car Porter
🍀👋☘️📚📖☕️📕😊
I found The Sleeping Car Porter at Powell's website. It only took about a week to get across the country.
Thanks for the mention! I was just thinking about how great it is that Eric has become the prize guru....in my old age I am happier to go with his wonderful picks instead of trying to read them all myself. Go Eric!🥰📚📕🥳
Depending on where you are, check independent bookstores. I’m in Canada and had to do that for some of the Women’s Prize shortlist, and The Sleeping Car Porter seemed sold out everywhere except my local book sellers 😊
@@inthehartspace The majority of independent bookstores will ship though you will probably have to pay shipping.
@@pegthebookprizeaddict579 😊📚