Camp ToB 2021

Camp ToB 2021
summer reading program (details)
from the Tournament of Books
Love to expand my reading repetoire with Tournament of Book picks.

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WINNER: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
Literary, LGBTQ | Published: 2021 | Bookshop

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
by Rivka Galchen
Literary, Historical | Published: 2021 | Bookshop

Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary, Dystopian | Published: 2021 | Bookshop | my rating: 5
observations of being human

No One Is Talking about This
by Patricia Lockwood
Literary, Fantasy | Published: 2021 | Bookshop

Peaces
by Helen Oyeyemi
Literary, Fantasy | Published: 2021 | Bookshop

Whereabouts
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Literary, Women, Italy | Published: 2021 | Bookshop

Camp ToB 2021 Reading Schedule:

June 2: No One Is Talking About This, first half
June 9: No One Is Talking About This to the end
June 16: Detransition, Baby, first half
June 23: Detransition, Baby to the end
June 30: Klara and the Sun, first half
July 7: VACATION 🌴
July 14: Klara and the Sun to the end
July 21: Whereabouts, first half
July 28: Whereabouts to the end
Aug. 4: Peaces, first half
Aug. 11: Peaces to the end
Aug. 18: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, first half
Aug. 25: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch to the end
Sept. 1: Announce summer champion

Women's Prize for Fiction 2021

Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
(details)
long list announced: March 10
short list announced: April 28
winner announced: July 7

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WINNER: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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Loving the looks of this list, so creating another self reading challenge for the year.

THE LONG LIST:

Because of You
by Dawn French
Literary, Contemporary, Family | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

Burnt Sugar
by Avni Doshi
Literary, India | Published: 2020 (first 2019) | Goodreads

Consent
by Annabel Lyon
Literary, Contemporary, Canada | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
Literary, LGBTQ | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

Exciting Times
by Naoise Dolan
Literary, LGBTQ, Ireland | Published: 2020 | Goodreads | my rating: 4
frustrating love triangle, but good

The Golden Rule
by Amanda Craig
Literary, Mystery | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
by Cherie Jones
Literary, Historical, Barbados | Published: 2021 | Goodreads | my rating: 5
sad painful realities

Luster
by Raven Leilani
Literary, Contemporary, African American | Published: 2020 | Goodreads | my rating: 4
suburban fantasies, twisted relationships

No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood
Literary, Fantasy | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

Nothing But Blue Sky
by Kathleen MacMahon
Literary | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
Literary, Fantasy | Published: 2020 | Goodreads | my rating: 5
love how this unravels with its many halls and statues along the way

Small Pleasures
by Clare Chambers
Literary, Historical, LGBTQ | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

Summer
by Ali Smith
Literary, Contemporary | Published: 2020 | Goodreads | my rating: dnf

Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Literary, Contemporary, Africa | Published: 2020 | Goodreads | my rating: 5
religion, science, addiction, depression

Unsettled Ground
by Claire Fuller
Literary, Contemporary | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Literary, Historical | Published: 2020 | Goodreads | my rating: 4
living true, what's it worth