Ep 37: Are Literary Prizes A Reading List? Inside the Nobel, Pulitzer, Booker & National Book Award

In the height of Prize Season, Amanda and Joseph are back with a bumper episode asking what all the hullabaloo is about - how are prizes judged and awarded, and are the winners worth our time? Plus, they talk about Amanda’s recent trip to the Women’s Prize ceremony, and as always, what they’ve been reading recently and what they hope to pick up next.

Bookish News

Hay Festival

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams @sarahww_

Women’s Prize

Women’s Prize Live and other events

Rivals on Disney+

Felicity Blunt @thebluntoffice

Laura Wade

Katherine Parkinson @parkinson.katherine

Field Work as a Sex Object by Meena Kadasamy @k.a.n.d.a.s.a.m.y

Rapture by Emily Maguire @emilymaguirewriter

These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany @salmaelwardany

The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet @lyse.doucet

The Correspondent by Virgina Evans @virginia.l.evans

Dominion by Addie E. Kitchens @addie_citchens

The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson @marxia1

Recent Reads

Air by Christian Kracht

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht

Imperium by Christian Kracht

You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate @christinapplegate

Prizes and Prize-Worthy Recommendations

The Nobel Prize for Literature

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Booker Prize

National Book Award

Milkman by Anna Burns

‘The Hemingway Veto’ and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

The Riders In The Chariot by Patrick White

The Tree of Man by Patrick White

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

Martyr by Kaveh Akbar @kavehakbar.kavehakbar

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Trust by Hernan Diaz

What We’re Reading Next

The Beautiful Ones by Prince and Dan Piepenbring

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout @lizstroutauthor

Also mentioned

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