Booker Prize Longlist 2022 | St. Charles Public Library

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Try it, if you liked: The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan, Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo, or Animal Farm by George Orwell.

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"An explosive novel about the chaos of revolution, Glory centres around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional African country, and the drama that follows for an unruly nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe--Zimbabwe's president who took office in 1980 and...never left--Bulawayo's bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding,...

2) Trust

Author

Diaz, Hernan

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Try it, if you liked: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Trust Exercise by Susan Choi, or Golden House by Salman Rushdie.

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"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...

3) The trees: a novel

Author

Everett, Percival

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Try it, if you liked: The Sellout by Paul Beatty, Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark, or Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza.

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When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive to investigate a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution,...

4) Booth: a novel

Author

Fowler, Karen Joy

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Try it, if you liked: March by Geraldine Brooks, Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Falade, or See What I Have Done by Sara Schmidt.

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"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean...

5) Small things like these

Author

Keegan, Claire

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Try it, if you liked: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare, Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Galan, or Nora Webster by Colm Toibin.

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"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things...

6) The colony

Author

Magee, Audrey

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Try it, if you liked: Milkman by Anna Burns or Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan

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"A novel examining the long, complicit aftermath of colonialism, told through the summer of 1979 and a remote island in the west of Ireland, one of the last places where people speak everyday Irish, and two men who come to experience it"--

7) Maps of our spectacular bodies

Author

Mortimer, Maddie

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Try it, if you liked: All of This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride, or Companion Piece by Ali Smith.

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Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a perfectly balanced family of three with a happy life. But when a devasting diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to warp and transform, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.

8) Nightcrawling

Author

Mottley, Leila

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Try it, if you liked: Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell, Push by Sapphire, or Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.

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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...

9) Oh William!: a novel

Author

Strout, Elizabeth

Series

Amgash novels volume 3

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Try it, if you liked: Monogamy by Sue Miller or Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill.

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"Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. 'William,' she confesses, 'has always been a mystery to me.' Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret - one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the...