This year’s challenge is a bit different and as promised each month we’ll give you a list of suggested books for each category. For December I asked the Cwts Discussion Group to recommend their favourite novel that has been nominated for an award in 2018.
Here are a few of the suggestions:
The Overstory – Richard Powers
There is a world alongside ours – vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people wholearn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
The Trick To Time – Kit De Waal
Mona is a young Irish girl in the big city, with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding house. On her first night out in 1970s Birmingham, she meets William, a charming Irish boy with an easy smile and an open face. They embark upon a passionate affair, a whirlwind marriage – before a sudden tragedy tears them apart.
Improvement – Joan Silber
Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn’t perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece’s spirit but worries that she always picks the wrong man. Little does she know that the otherwise honourable Boyd is pulling Reyna into a scheme which violates his probation.
Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London – or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.
Less – Andrew Sean Greer
Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can’t say yes – it would be too awkward; he can’t say no – it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world.
This is only a few suggestions because on For Reading Addicts we already have several lists of award nominees for you to pick from. Take a look at all of these.
Books are My Bag Readers Awards 2018
The 2018 National Book Awards Longlist: Fiction
Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner is Announced.
The Man Booker Shortlist 2018 is here
Winners Announced for Wales Book of the Year 2018
Desmond Elliot Prize 2018 Shortlist Announced
Pick a book from our list, from the links above or pick something that’s already in your TBR pile. What ever you decide, don’t forget to let us know what you’re reading over on Cwts Club Discussion Group.
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