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The Man Booker Awards

Time Travel Fiction

A Sense of Place

Feast for Readers

The Man Booker Prize 2006
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best in contemporary fiction. One of the world’s most prestigious awards, and one of incomparable influence, it continues to be the pinnacle of ambition for every fiction writer. Now in its thirty-eighth year, the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country’s finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize.

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Winner)

Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey

Gathering the Water by Robert Edric

Get a Life by Nadine Gordimer

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland

Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson

Seven Lies by James Lasdun

The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor

In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr

Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn

The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Time Travel Fiction

Amazon by Barbara Walker
Days of Cain by J.R. Dunn
The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Green Darkness by Anya Seton
House on the Strand by Daphne duMaurier
Lightning by Dean Koontz
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card
A Question of Time by Fred Saberhagen
Sky Coyote by Kage Baker
Slowness by Milan Kundera
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

A Sense of Place

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it..." Joan Didion

Allende, Isabel -- The House of the Spirits
Banks, Russell -- Rule of the Bone
Barr, Nevada -- Mystery series
Burns, Olive Ann -- Cold Sassy Tree
Carr, Caleb -- The Alienist
Doerr, Harriet -- Consider This, Senora
Evans, Nicholas -- The Horse Whisperer
Faulkner, William-- Anything
Forster, E.M. -- A Passage to India
Frazer, Charles -- Cold Mountain
Gabaldon, Diane -- Outlander (series)
Guterson, David -- Snow Falling on Cedars
Jewett, Sarah Orne -- Country of the Pointed Firs
Karon, Jan -- the Mitford series
Kingsolver, Barbara -- Prodigal Summer
Mehta, Gita -- A River Sutra
Melville, James - Mystery
Morgan, Marlo -- Mutant Message Down Under
Morgan, Robert -- Gap Creek
Naipaul, V.S. - Bend in the River
Pelletier, Cathie - The Bubble Reputation
Price, Reynolds -- Anything
Proulx, E. Annie -- The Shipping News
Rolvagg, O.E. -- Giants in the Earth
Siddons, Anne Rivers - Colony : A Novel
Spencer, LaVyrle - That Camden Summer
Watson, Larry -- Montana 1948
Welty, Eudora -- Anything

Feast for Readers
A savory selection of both fiction and factual titles revolving
around the world of food. Careful -- don't over-indulge!
Non-Fiction:

Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes (945.18 Haw)
The Olive Farm by Carol Drinkwater (944.9 Dri)
On Rue Tatin by Susan Herrmann Loomis (641.59 Loo)
Frances Mayes:
Under the Tuscan Sun (945.5 May)
Bella Tuscany (945.5 May)
Peter Mayle: A Year in Provence (944.92 May)
Encore Provence (944.9 May)
Toujours Provence (944.9083 May)

Feeding Frenzy: Across Europe in Search of the Perfect Meal by Stuart Stevens (647.954 S)

Fiction:

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Best Loved Stories / Food Fictions: Selected Shorts (Audiobook)
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Joanne Harris:
Chocolat
Five Quarters of the Orange
Bread Alone by Judith Hendricks
Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester