2015 Booker Prize

This year's Booker Prize longlist was announced earlier today:

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
The Green Road by Anne Enright
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
The Chimes by Anna Smaill
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

More info: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/man-booker-prize-announces-2015-longlist

The winner of this year's Booker Prize is A Brief History of Seven Killings by the Jamaican author Marlon James. I've only finished five longlisted books and two books from the shortlist, but this was my favorite of the ones I've read so far.

I just requested it on Kindle from my library. There are a couple of people ahead of me but I think I beat the rush.

I just requested an ebook of A Brief History of Seven Killings from my library, too. There is one person ahead of me (per copy). I had to take a different book off my hold list - my library allows only 8 holds.

I was a bit disappointed by A Spool of Blue Thread, haven't read any of the others yet.