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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 Invisible Guardian

August 11, 20212021, Crime, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

An international bestseller, The Invisible Guardian is a gripping psychological thriller following a police inspector who reluctantly returns to her hometown to solve a series of eerie murders.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Garden of Evening Mists

August 10, 20212021, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty.

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.

Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Shuggie Bain

August 5, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended, Top Books#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. It’s our pick of the day.

Reading a Prize Winner With Booko: In At The Deep End

August 4, 20212021, Funny, My Next Read, New Release, Prize Winner, Recommended, Writing#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

In At The Deep End is a deliciously disarming debut novel about a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love and pleasure in all the wrong places.

Reading a prize winner with Booko: An American Marriage

August 3, 20212021, My Next Read, Prize Winner, Recommended#author, #Bookoaustralia, #books, #imclever, #prizewinner, #Reading, #TopbooksTeam Booko

An American Dream is a moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple and Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.