Congrats to Shehan Karunatilaka, this year’s Booker prize winner for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.* I haven’t finished The Seven Moons yet, but when I first started reading it, I predicted it would be one of my favorites of the year (another book from the shortlist also fits that description), so I was so incredibly excited to learn of Karunatilaka’s win and can’t wait to see what he writes in the future. Below, find my ratings for the books I did manage to read (can I continue to blame my chaotic work schedule for my lack of success finishing the whole longlist?), which books I’m still reading, which one I DNF’d (for now), and which ones I have yet to read but can’t wait to start.
What I’m Still Reading
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (a predicted 5 star read)
Trust by Hernan Diaz (a predicted 4 or 5 star read)
5 Star Reads
The Trees by Percival Everett (if this isn’t one of my favorites of the year, I will be shocked)
4 Star Reads
The Colony by Audrey Magee
3 Star Reads
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
2 Star Reads
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
DNF’d for Now
Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo - I feel like I need to explain this one. I was enjoying this book, and I do intend to return to it, but work and life have been so chaotic at the moment, and I just wasn’t in the headspace for this book at the moment. I want to sit down with it and really be able to reckon with its many layers. I can’t do that right now. But I have some time off towards the end of the year, and I hope to revisit it then.
What I Haven’t Read Yet…But Plan To
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
What was your favorite read from the Booker longlist? Share below!
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