New reading challenge: Booker winners of the 70s-early 80s

Having just finished, and so enjoyed, the audiobook of The Sea, The Sea, I seem to have stumbled into a half-baked plan to try to cover all the Booker prizewinners from the first decade of my life (1973-1983) as audiobooks if I can find audio versions. I don't know why, my lists make little sense even to me sometimes :-)

The list is:

  • J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)
  • Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist (1974* tie)
  • Stanley Middleton, Holiday (1974* tie)
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust (1975)
  • David Storey, Saville (1976)
  • Paul Scott, Staying On (1977)
  • ✅Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea (1978)
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore (1979)
  • William Golding, Rites of Passage (1980)
  • ✅Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981)
  • ✅Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark (1982)
  • J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K (1983)

I have already read Midnight's Children and Schindler's Ark, and of course have just read The Sea, The Sea, so they are ticked off. All three of these were very, VERY good books (Midnight's Children is in my top 20 books of all time, in fact), so they are going to be challenging acts to follow, but we'll see!

I've just now started the audiobook of Penelope Fitzgerald's Offshore (so far so good, but I'm early in it!) Next up will probably be the Gordimer if I can locate an audio version. Onwards and upwards...

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