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Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Happiest Man on Earth
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. Filled with insights on friendship, family, health and ethics The Happiest Man on Earth offers timeless lessons for readers of all ages.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: The Night Watchman
The Night Watchman is a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress, grappling with the worst and best impulses of human nature.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her employer, and a connection that threatens to undo them both.
Reading a Prize Winner with Booko: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
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
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
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
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
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
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.