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How have you found this list??

Laura wrote: "How have you found this list??"

Have known from old that Valentine's Day = Look for IMPAC Longlist Day, only somehow *shrugs bemusedly* I forgot to do that last year that's why IMPAC 2011 Longlist was only posted yesterday along with this. Hope you go and vote on that one too - worth a gander just for the also-ran.

Hi Bettie, Thanks for the invite to vote on the list but I'm now feeling very very under read as I've not read a single book on either list.
Looks like it's the wooden spoon prize for me :)

Geevee wrote: "Hi Bettie, Thanks for the invite to vote on the list but I'm now feeling very very under read as I've not read a single book on either list.
Looks like it's the wooden spoon prize for me :)"

No worries GeeVee - your reading interests are military history so will not hit the contemporary lists.
:O)

Came across something interesting - when listing all the books there was a kindle book that could not be linked so authors who only publish that way (via tha amazon monopoly) are not going to get their stuff out to us here, and I like to think that us GR readers hold a fair amount of sway.

What was the book?

Susanna wrote: "What was the book?"

Miro Gavran The Only Witness to Beauty translated by Nina H. Kay-Antoljak

I guess we'll have to wait for someone who owns a copy to add it manually.

I haven't found it at OpenLibrary and WorldCat....

The short list:

1 - Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer

2 - The Matter with Morris by David Bergen

3 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

4 - The Memory of Love by Animatta Forna

5 - Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor

6 - Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

7 - Landed by Tim Pears

8 - Limassol by Yishai Sarid

9 - The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza

10 - Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin

The Eternal Son by Cristovão Tezza is unavailable to me - kindling only

Is Isn't It Pretty To Think So? on the Longlist? Link in subtitle does not work at present.