Based on a small sampling of my Best Favorites, Goodreads has had a field day populating my Recommendations shelf with former Man Booker Prize winners. I would like to clone myself so that I can read all of these tempting tidbits.
Most of the "Favorites" recommendations feature contemporary British literary writers (I listed Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel) who have won the Booker or other prestigious awards. Based on my listing of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob deZoet, there are a number of historical fiction recommendations that feature seafaring adventures. Other suggestions favor historical fiction, some mysteries, and feminist fantasy, in response to my postings of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Dark of the Moon and In the Woods, The Mists of Avalon and The Bloody Chamber. All of the recs seem to favor intriguing characters, exotic settings, and superb writing.
I am an eclectic reader, so I received a broad variety of recs. The only batch that really doesn't entice me at all contains recs in response to posting Wonder. These upper elementary novels look like they feature ordinary or special kids who overcome extraordinary obstacles of some sort. I don't read much Juvenile fiction so I am not enticed by the Goodreads ideas. Besides, Wonder was in a league of its own.
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