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Hi all!

Now that the Man Booker Prize 2016 winner has been announced and we have a few months until the International prize longlist is announced (March 2017), it's time to return to reading the backlist of books from the Man Booker Prize winning list.

If you're new to the group, first of all, welcome! I'm so glad you're here. My name is Max, I'm the founder of this group and can't believe it's already been over a year since it started. It's been a great experience having literary discussions with you all.

When the Man Booker & International Prizes are not underway, we read books that have previously won the award.

In the past we have read the following:
-The Luminaries
-The Line of Beauty
-The Blind Assassin
-The God of Small Things
-The Narrow Road to the Deep North
-A Brief History of Seven Killings (last year's winner)
-The Sellout (this year's winner)

So when you nominate a read for November below, please do NOT include any of those. Thanks.

Anyway, as usual the rules follow:
1. Every member may nominate 1 previous winner excluding the 5 above that we've read previously
2. Every member may second (or upvote) 2 other nominations by other members.

So for example, I might nominate The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Another member could nominate Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and then upvote my nomination. So my pick would have 2 votes and theirs would have 1, etc. I hope that makes sense. If you're confused, just pay attention to what other people are doing and it should start to make sense.

Also, please DO NOT nominate a book if you see someone has already nominated it in this thread. If I nominate The Sense of an Ending, you can't nominate it also. Please just upvote it so that I can add a tally to keep track of how many people are interested. You can choose not to nominate something else if you really want to read The Sense of an Ending, etc. But don't use your nomination on something that I or someone else just nominated.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON October 31, 2016 at midnight! I know this is kind of rushed, my apologies. I've been busy and a bit ill, so it slipped my mind to start the nominations for next month. December will have more preparation time.

Sorry for the long post but it's been a while since we've done this and I know a lot of new people have joined. As always, feel free to message me if you have any questions.

Let's get nominating!

-Max

I nominate True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

I nominate Possession: A Romance by A.S.Byatt

I second Possession and nominate The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

I feel like I've done this so much in this group hahaha but I nominate The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (which won in 1989, I think)!

Rebekah wrote: "I feel like I've done this so much in this group hahaha but I nominate The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (which won in 1989, I think)!"

I second The Sense of an Ending and The Remains of the Day.
And I nominate The Finkler Question (2010).

I nominate Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel and second The Sense of an Ending

I nominate "The White Tiger" (2008) by Aravind Adiga. I second "True History of the Kelly Gang" and "Remains of the Day."

I nominate The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens which won in 1970.

I second Possession and The Sense of an Ending.

I nominate The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch and I second Possession.

I'll nominate The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and second The White Tiger and The Remains of the Day.

I nominate Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

I Second The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson and The True History of the Kelly Gang -Peter Carey

I second The Sea, The Sea and Midnight's Children

I nominate The Gathering by Anne Enright.
I second The Finkler Question and The Sense of an Ending.

I second The Sense of an Ending.

I second The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai and The Gathering by Anne Enright.

Maxwell wrote: "Hi all!

Now that the Man Booker Prize 2016 winner has been announced and we have a few months until the International prize longlist is announced (March 2017), it's time to return to reading the b..."
Thanks Max for starting this group. Love reading all award books but Man-Booker is my favorite for its unique, edgy and diverse topics. The full list of all the winners are are wikipedia (). I am up for reading anything the group decides and that I haven't read. Haven't gotten to BRING UP THE BODIES yet so will throw that out there (second it) but looking forward to whatever is the pick.

I second The True History of the Kelly Gang and The Sense of an Ending.

I second POSSESSION and MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN

I upvote Possession

I nominate The Bone People

I up vote the bone people and I vote for Oscar and Lucinda

I second Midnight's Children and The Bone People.

I second The Finkler Question and Posession

I second The Bone People

I nominate for two books : 'The Finkler Question' and 'The Life and Times of Micheal K'

I second The Sense of an Ending and The White Tiger

I nominate The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (Winner in 1995)

I second Sense of an Ending

I use my 2nd second for Bone People.

I second Possession and Finkler Question