Not the Booker prize longlist: vote now to decide the 2020 shortlist

You have put more than 210 novels in contention – now we need your learned opinions to winnow this down to a shortlistWe now have a Not the Booker longlist – and it’s a very, very long longlist. We have more than 200 eligible books this year, which is a record for the competition. It’s also a fantastic endorsement of the work writers and publishers have been doing in this past year, in spite of … everything. Not to mention a welcome reminder of the enthusiasm and generosity of readers and all those people who have taken the time to nominate their favourite book published between October 2019 and September 2020.Now, it’s time to start reading some of these books, and (hopefully) discuss how excellent they are. To get to this next stage, we need to whittle down that mighty list of 211 books to a more manageable three, so we can add those two our other three titles (one selected by last year’s judging panel; one by the independent bookshop of the year, Book-ish in Crickhowell; and one by Harrogate library, current holders of the library of the year award.) Continue reading…
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