Ten Favorite Booker Prize Finalists
(in order of publication, with asterisks beside the books that actually won)
G. by John Berger (1972) *
Shame by Salman Rushdie (1983)
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984)
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes (1984)
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (1987) *
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988) *
Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh (1994)
Quarantine by Jim Crace (1997)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (2012)
— November 5, 2022