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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December

Authors, journalists and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

The Guardian - UK

The Booker Prize Shortlist 2024: The stories being considered for the top literary prize

Familiarise yourself with this year’s shortlisted novels to discover your new favourite yarn

Evening Standard

Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

The Guardian - UK

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Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn – is the title to put your money on

The Guardian - UK

Booker prize 2024: the six shortlisted books reviewed by our experts

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 12.

The Conversation

Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Arundhati Roy call for boycott of Israeli cultural institutions

The authors are among 1,000 books industry figures pledging not to work with any publishers, festivals or publications ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’

The Guardian - UK

Why Rachel Kushner Writes Characters Without Morals

The acclaimed novelist talks vintage resellers, Paul Thomas Anderson, and her new book, Creation Lake

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Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among 6 Booker Prize finalists

American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The Independent UK

Booker Prize 2024: Women dominate shortlist as all six authors tackle ‘fault lines of our times’

Shortlist for the prestigious literary prize features the largest number of women it its 55-year history

The Independent UK

Each of the six Booker novels does something unique

As the Guardian’s fiction editor, I’ve been writing about the Booker prize for years. Now, as a judge, I’ve seen behind the curtain

The Guardian - UK

Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist

The six finalists include five books by women – the highest number of female writers shortlisted in the prize’s 55-year history

The Guardian - UK

‘An ideas novel that’s not boring’: Rachel Kushner’s revolutionary spy novel reflects on our hurtle towards extinction

Rachel Kushner ranks among the finest novelists working today.

The Conversation

Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Miranda July are fiction nominees for National Book Awards

Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards

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Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner review – a thrilling novel of ideas

An American spy infiltrates a commune of eco-activists in France in this Booker-listed exploration of ideology and sensation

The Guardian - UK

‘Writing this book was like a drug high’: Rachel Kushner on her Booker-listed novel

The author on her party years in San Francisco, why she loves getting older and her most ambitious novel yet

The Guardian - UK

The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner review – double dealing in deepest France

Longlisted for this year’s Booker prize, Kushner’s cleverly paced tale of espionage, narrated by a ‘wild and boastful’ agent provocateur, juggles a killer plot with anarchy, agriculture and prehistory, making for her most entertaining novel yet

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US authors make up almost half the 13 semifinalists for the Booker Prize for fiction

Six American writers are among 13 semifinalists for the Booker Prize for fiction

The Guardian - UK

This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas

Tom’s Guide

I’ve watched this Max movie more than 10 times — and you need to stream it this weekend

"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is one of my favorite movies and an almost perfect comedy-drama — you need to stream it on Max right now.

The Guardian - UK

Fiction to look out for in 2024

The first great lockdown novel, new tales from David Nicholls, Sarah Perry and Percival Everett, and Rachel Kushner’s contender for the Booker… next year promises to be special

The Independent UK

For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended — and reinvented — the genre

In his obituaries, Cormac McCarthy has been widely praised as a descendant of William Faulkner and Herman Melville among others, those excavators of the American spirit whose biblically influenced prose raised narratives to tragic and poetic heights

The Independent UK

From Trump to RBG, the new entries in Bartlett's Quotations

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Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon in conversation: ‘The best music books are about grief, politics, family, loss’

The Irish author and the former Sonic Youth bassist have co-edited an eclectic collection of women’s writing about music that includes Anne Enright and Rachel Kushner

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