How many Booker prize winners have you read?

[LBirch02]

2 for me

Really interesting to count up how many I've read .. I love a book list!

Twenty winners and 44 of the runners-up.

I'm surprised to see the likes of David Lodge on the short-list at all; I used to find his books amusing, although I suspect they would feel dated now, but high quality literature they weren't. As for Room, it was a page-turner but that's all, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves didn't deserve to be there either imo.

23 winners and The Narrow Road to the Deep North is my favourite. I loved Shuggie Bain too.

I've read 9. Couldn't get into either Milkman or Wolf Hall. Would like to read Shuggie Bain. Didn't rate The Narrow Road to the Deep North, although there is a very good bit towards the end (the fire storm).

I have a late summer birthday so DH often buys me the all the long listed books for my birthday. It's definitely got less interesting since they let American writers in - I feel like we get to hear about fewer Irish/Indian/Australian/Zimbabwean etc etc authors as about half the list now seems to be American. I've read two of this year's shortlist so far and they were OK. Not brilliant.

23 of the winners and 71 of the short listed ones. There are some great books in there in the winners - Lincoln in the Bardo, Ghost Road, Possession, Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies. Some equally great, or even better, books in the short lists too.

I'm quite amazed by how many I have read. 27 winners and nearly 50 of the short list (including 3 from this year), and quite a few other short listed ones I have on my Kindle but haven't managed to read yet.
I loved anything about India having lived there as a teenager, so the earliest on my list is The Seige of Krishnapur which I would heartily recommend. Also Paul Scott's Staying On which is the end to his Jewel in the Crown series that was made into a big TV drama in the 80s. I liked The Sea of Poppies too and of course the Rohinton Mistry ones.
Robertson Davies is an amazing Canadian author that I hadn't realised was on there - What's Bred in the Bone 1986 . His books are massive saga styles and very readable.
It's interesting how much certain authors are repeated. I think recent lists have tried to diverge more, but before that the same names pop up again and again.