Tier ranking every Booker prize book I've ever read
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@GemofBooks's video: • Tier Ranking Booker Pr...
All books:
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Autumn by Ali Smith
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Bring Up Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
England, England by Julian Barnes
February by Lisa Moore
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
History of Wolves by Emily Friedland
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
How To Be Both by Ali Smith
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Milkman by Anna Burns
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Normal People by Sally Rooney
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Room by Emma Donoghue
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Snap by Belina Bauer
The Colony by Audrey Magee
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Promise by Damon Galgut
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Trust by Hernan Diaz
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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LOL this is great, I was the same with Elmet - a ‘wait, what did I just read?’ moment
Savannah - Try E.Shaver Booksellers. I love that store.
Watching this video has been the chillest, most enjoyable way to wind down my day. Great stuff!
Also, I'm LOVING this t-shirt. Where can I get one? 😊
Aw glad to wind down the day with you. Thats my favourite way to watch long book videos too.
The shirt is from Ideal Bookshelf! I checked and it's still on their website 👍
Jill! This was such a treat ❤ Also, YES to thoughts on Elmet, totally agree.
Thank you for the validation!
You’ve read so many!!
Your top tier has reminded me that I really need to get to Say Nothing!!
Thanks for the mention matey 🧡
Please lmk when you are reading Say Nothing and I will follow along creepily from afar avoiding asking you questions but having so many
you've read so many booker books!! loved hearing your ranking!
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E Shaver Booksellers in Savannah!!! and it has bookstore cats!
I just finished Trust last night. Couldn't put it down towards the end and then went to read all the reviews watch all the video mentions (3 of yours too) because I was so in awe. I'm not a huge fiction reader esp literary so I didn't know words can be so precise and poignant in the first story. Third story did lose me a little bit before it picks up again with the main subjects. Ultimately it was a favourite read for me too.
Between also being a Patrick Radden Keefe fan and Nothing to Envy and Trust, I am so glad to have found someone with similar taste so that I have an idea whether I should spend time on a book or not. thx
Aw I'm so glad we have similar reading tastes!! Kindred spirits!
You have to buy Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil while you're in Savanah. It put the city back on the map! Have fun!
Great recommendation!
I saw Life of Pi in the little book bank and told myself I would not skip ahead in the video to see where you put it lol I was so worried about where you were going to put it, but did not expect where it went 😂 I'm going to need you to for real read it at some point and then revisit this ranking so that the suspense can finally be over lol
Ok I will make you a solemn vow that I will read it someday and will report back with the appropriate tier
lmaooo the ali smith comment. ngl i agree i feel like ive heard so many people talk about ali smith and yet still have zero idea what her books are actually about 🤨
Are we missing something? Or are they making it up? 🧐 What is the truth
4321 is one of my favorite books. Great audiobook
I will have to revisit it someday
Black Swan Green is by far Mitchell's worst of what I've read. Number9dream I think is my favorite? Cloud Atlas is also brilliant, and Ghostwritten was very good. I didn't finish The Thousand Autumns and I haven't read any Mitchell in awhile but I found Black Swan Green so dull.
this was fabulous. i loved the Ian McEwan hate so much that i’m choosing to ignore the Ali Smith slander lol. also i completely misremembered The Mirror and the Light being shortlisted. like even now looking at the actual shortlist on google images i’m like that can’t be right…
I mean *obviously* people like Ali Smith but I just cannot wrap my brain around her writing. It is a style that is impenetrable to me. Congratulations to all who are able to make sense of her writing! Also I hate that all her books are published in size 14 Times New Roman font that is unhinged!
Houston - I absolutely LOVE Brazos Bookstore, it’s my favorite bookstore anywhere, with a great selection of independent press and books in translation. One of the places I miss the most from when I lived there :( Other good Houston bookstores are Kindred Books for a cute lil Black-owned bookstore and Kaboom Books for the huge used bookstore treasure hunt vibes
Thank you!!! I will add Brazos to the list and hopefully we can make it to a few other shops too.
re: Arundhati Roy - I did love The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, but it is a challenging book that benefits from a lot of background knowledge. I recently read her short essay collection “Capitalism: A Ghost Story” and would recommend that as a primer for anyone who wants to read the novel, as it gets at her political obsessions and gives context in about 100 pages. God of Small Things is a regular novel that doesn’t require a lot of context and is excellent, 10/10 recommend especially for those of us who love sad books
I do love sad books so much LOL
I second Brazos Bookstore - I was going to recommend it! I hope you enjoy Houston - it's going to be very hot!!
I am braced for the heat and prepared to hate it 😆
Have you read The Van by Roddy Doyle? Can’t remember what year it won the Booker. It was part of the Barrytown triology. The Snapper & The Commitments are the other two. All made into films. Love them all.
A Curious Incident is an important book to me. I’m my sons carer. He’s an adult with autism. On World Book night 2007? I gave away loads of copies.
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That is awesome!
I haven't read any Roddy Doyle but I have one of his books on my shelf and I think I will really love his writing. Will report back!
I can't believe you didn't put February higher. Yes, it is about grief but it's also about family and community and a real, strong woman ... and it's from Newfoundland!
Oof I know! I was really hmm-ing and ha-ing. I think it's an excellent book but I absolutely loved Moore's latest title This Is How We Love so I guess February just doesn't have the same impact
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