We’re delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel.

Mary Beard will act as Chair, and is joined by Raymond Antrobus, Jarvis Cocker, Rebecca Liu and Patricia Lockwood.

Find out more: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/omwonxgxjj

I’m sure you can do it all in new year coming

Sounds like a writer question. I’m not a writer, but:

a: Audition by Katy Kitamura
b: Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
c: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

(My 1st Bluesky post) I have a little pile of short books lined up to finish the year. This one is 1st. From 1960

Fair point. No Shakespeare…

I’m sympathetic with the intent here. I want more support for those in need. But that’s $1.37 million a month for congressmen and women and $8.3 billion a month for snap. These memes really aren’t meaningful.

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting. This was my first Woolf novel. I read it with a group early this year. I’m thinking of reading through her novels in 2026.

Just found all your terrific questions. Having fun. 🙂

Dante and Chaucer of course
This Sound and the Fury 1st chapter
To the Lighthouse
Gravity’s Rainbow
Blood Meridian comes to mind, but The Orchard Keeper is far more poetic
Omeros
(Some recent ones: Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein, and Audition by Katy Kitamura)

Ok
1: Hamlet
2: Giovanni’s Room
3: Pnin
All men. 🙁

Hmm. Best ever? Here are three i love: My Name is Lucy Barton. My Antonia. James. Arturos Island by Elsa Morante. A lot of Shakespeare, but especially Hamlet. Pnin by Nabokov, Lolita, Ada, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Giovanni’s Room. Sula.

I’m still in denial

I just finished Edith Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance. She had such wonderful, draw you in, prose. Next i’ll finish Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah. I love Gurnah, but this one has a very light narrative drive 2/3 in.

Thomas Malory, Theft by Gurnah, and on audio, The Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood

I’m thinking, not bad. I’ve done far worse. I try to tie my planned reads - so one leads to, and will get me curious about, the next one. Otherwise, i end up off the plan.

Dead as a Doornail - The Scholarly Kitchen Where does the idiom "dead as a doornail" come from?

Why a doornail was considered dead to begin with: (there’s a cool video here): scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/11/19/d...

‘Toma … you told me you were an unbeliever.’
…
‘Not anunbeliever, sir, a free-thinker. Perhaps you’ve never thought about the difference. As a free thinker, I can believe what I like when I like.’

Penelope Fitzgerald - The Beginning of Spring 🙂

“The answer was that a frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Its tragic implication lies in its power of debasing people and ideals.”

- Edith Wharton, from
A Backwards Glance, about writing House of Mirth

This is pretty spectacular

I just read this earlier this year - for the 1st time

She could do life in Manhattan too. Or Chicago. Or… 🙂

I was wondering… 🙂

Love this

He’s named Chaucer! 😍

Add “ing” ??

I’m so late to this , but someone had an affair with jfk jr? Why?!

I’m reading your original answer again this morning. I took screenshots too. 🙂 Thanks again