ManBookering discussion

Hello once again, friends! It's time to vote on the February book of the month. This will be our last month of voting for a while as the International Prize longlist comes out in mid-March and we will be focusing on that for the months of March, April, May and June. More info about the prize is located here: http://themanbookerprize.com/internat...

If you've not had the chance to join the conversation for January's pick, Midnight's Children, you can do so here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

As always, you are able to nominate one book and up-vote two others. Please DO NOT nominate a book that you've seen someone already nominate in this thread. Instead, you can give it 1 of your 2 upvotes so I know that you are also interested in reading it. Of course you can only nominate past Man Booker winners (not books that were short or long-listed).

In the past we have read the following, so they are not eligible for February:
-The God of Small Things
-The Blind Assassin
-The Line of Beauty
-The Luminaries
-The Narrow Road to the Deep North
-A Brief History of Seven Killings (last year's winner)
-The Sellout (this year's winner)
-The Sense of an Ending
-Hotel du Lac
-Midnight's Children

I'll start the nomination process with The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Nominations will close on January 30th @ midnight PST. Winner will be announced on the 31st.

I nominate J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

Iris Murdoch The Sea The Sea

I nominate V.S. Naipaul's In A Free State

Peter Carey- Oscar and Lucinda

I nominate Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald and second Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea.

I second Offshore

I'll second Oscar and Lucinda

Second Offshore

I'll second Disgrace

Nominate Adiga's The White Tiger

I nominate The Bone People by Keri Hulme and second Remains of the Day

My second second is The Bone People

I second ThebRemains of the Day

I second "The Bone People"

I second The Bone People

I nominate the 1974 winner The Conservationist

I second Remains of the Day

I second Offshore and Disgrace.

I second The Remains of the Day!

I second Offshore and Disgrace.

I nominate Schindler's Ark / Schindler's List

I nominate Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. My first 'second' is The Bone People.

I second Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (because I was about to nominate it!).

My second second is The Bone People.

I second the bone people too

I second Schindler's Ark

I second Disgrace.

Simon wrote: "Iris Murdoch The Sea The Sea"

I second The Sea, the Sea.

I second The Sea, The Sea and the Conservationist

I nominate The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel

MajorTom wrote: "I nominate The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel"

MajorTom, with respect, this is not Yann Martel's Booker winner. "Life of Pi" is his Booker winner. Would you care to make another nomination?

Sorry about that! My book cover literally reads "The High Mountains of Portugal. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. Yann Martel" So I assumed he'd won it twice! Misleading advertising, ha ha. I'll think of another nomination, then, but I'll check the official lists first!

My second second is voor The Conservationist.

I nominate Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel

I will spend my second up-vote on "The Remains of the Day."

I second Wolf Hall and The White Tiger

I nominate Vernon God Little and second Remains of the Day

I second the Remains of the Day! <3

I second The Conservationist.

White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, PLEASE! :0)

The inheritance of loss

I second The Bone People

My second second is for The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

I second White Tiger and The sea, the sea

I second White Tiger and The Remains of the Day