The Reading Room · Hazel Reads Three
The prize winners
The ones the juries got right.
Book 1 Orbital
Samantha Harvey
READ IT One day, six astronauts, the earth turning below. Barely a plot, and luminous on every page. The Booker was correct.
Book 2 James
Percival Everett
READ IT Huckleberry Finn told by Jim, who is nobody's fool and never was. Furious, funny, essential. Read it.
Book 3 Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
FOR SOME Ireland slides into tyranny and a mother holds the line. No paragraph breaks, no mercy. Brilliant, and it will not let you rest.
Now tell me what you’re reading. Have you read any of these? Or something better? Bring it to the Reading Room.
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