Friday Reads: Lots of Book Prize News!
What a big week for books! Announcements from the National Book Awards and the Giller Prize--plus all the reading I've done this week. Expand for more information. 👇
Links 💻
Register to Vote (Or Check Your Registration Status): https://vote.gov/
The Giller Prize Longlist: https://gillerprize.ca/2024-finalists/
Giller Prize Controversy: https://lithub.com/20-canadian-author...
Barbara Kingsolver’s Lifetime Achievement Award Announcement: https://apnews.com/article/barbara-ki...
W. Paul Coates’ Lifetime Achievement Award Announcement: https://www.nationalbook.org/national...
Wendy Xu on Mooncakes and Disability Representation: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/201...
Further Viewing 🎥
Reading Wrap-Up for August: • Reading Wrap Up for August and September P...
My Booker Longlist Reaction: • Booker Prize Longlist Reaction 2024
Book Haul for August: • Book Haul for August 2024
The Best Short Novels and Novellas: • The Best Short Novels or Novellas
Thoughts About BookTube: • Thoughts About BookTube: The Honest BookTu...
Last Friday Reads: • Friday Reads: A DNF, a Book Toss, and a Ne...
Jump to the Friday Reads: 15:33
Titles Mentioned 📚
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97800632...
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97800617...
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97800608...
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97800615...
A Way to Be Happy, Caroline Adderson: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97817719...
Death By a Thousand Cuts, Shashi Bhat
What I Know About You, Éric Chacour: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97815524...
Bad Land, Corrina Chong: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97815515...
Curiosities, Anne Fleming
Prairie Edge, Conor Kerr: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97815179...
This Strange Eventful History, Claire Messud: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97803936...
Held, Anne Michaels: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805935...
The Cure for Drowning, Loghan Paylor
Peacocks of Instagram, Deepa Rajagopalan: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97814870...
In Winter I Get Up At Night, Jane Urquhart: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97807710...
Real Ones, Katherena Vermette
Montana, 1948, Larry Watson: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97815713...
Justice, Larry Watson: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97815713...
Mooncakes, Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu, and Joamette Gil: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97816201...
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97812502...
Don’t Cry For Me, Daniel Black: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97813354...
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97800608...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805934...
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