Category Archives: My Next Read

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

August 23, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing explores the confusion of having expectations upturned, and the awkwardness and pain of being human in our increasingly dislocated world.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Yield

August 20, 20212021, All Time Favourites, Awards, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award The Yield is a beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Rain Heron

August 19, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Robbie Arnott’s stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. The Rain Heron is equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Labyrinth

August 18, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

The Labyrinth is a hypnotic story of guilt, denial, the fraught relationship between parents and children, and how art can both be ruthlessly destructive and restore sanity.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Testaments

August 17, 20212021, Author, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

This 2019 Booker Prize Winner is a goodie. The Testaments picks up 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Second Place

August 16, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: A Passage North

August 13, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

A Passage North has been longlisted for the Booker Prize and describes a young man’s journey into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in a searing novel of longing and loss.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Dictionary of Lost Words

August 12, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The House on Mango Street

August 9, 20212021, Classics, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros’ masterpiece, The House on Mango Street, is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery.

Reading a Prize Winner With Booko: Hamnet

August 6, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Hamnet, Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, is a tale of two extraordinary people and a love that draws them together along with a loss that threatens to tear them apart.

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