Bibliography, October 2018

BOTM: R. Powers, The Overstory (2018)

P. Bayard, Who killed Roger Ackroyd? (1998)

F. Butler-Gallie, A field guide to the English Clergy (2018)

B. Chambers, A long way to a small angry planet (2015)
E. Edugyan, Washington Black (2018)

A. Fraser, The king and the catholics (2018)
R. Kushner, The Mars Room (2018)

T. Marshall, Prisoners of Geography (2015)

S. Moss, Chocolate: A Global History (2009)
Y. Maxtone Grahame, Terms and conditions: girls' boarding schools 1939-79 (2018)
R. Robertson, The Long take (2018) 

Triumphant in my Booker preferences (making my agreement with the Booker jury about 50% ), it makes no difference to this month's top book as Milkman was the first one I read, hence in September. It lost out to Lincoln. The Overstory was great though and not just for hippies. The opening sequence of vignettes was a masterclass in condensed storytelling. The later plot-driven aspects weren't perfect, but were compelling and real. I think it's a worthy winner this month, but I did almost give BOTM to Maxtone Graham, whose book I loved, probably more than I should. As well as being fascinating in its own right, it's a reminder about how unfathomable the country was even a few decades ago.

Here's my Booker shortlist ranking. Everything pretty good save the last, which wasn't without merit, but I felt much too clumsy:

1. Burns

2. Powers
(daylight)

3. Kushner

4. Robertson

5. Edugyan

6. Johnson