Here‘s my own #tob list, in order of best to worst. That means that Seven Moons, at the bottom of my list of books that I actually read, is likely to win, just as it did the Booker! 🤣
Interestingly, whilst I loved my top 3 reads, I kind of felt that none of them were ‘different‘, ‘quirky‘ or ‘challenging‘ enough to have made the shortlist. I think that Nightcrawling, Rabbit Hutch and Volcano are the sort of books that should be on there.
BkClubCare, Megabooks, Hooked_on_books, Cinfhen, MicheleinPhilly, Aimeesue, Suet624, merelybookish, Librarybelle, batsy, Chelsea.Poole, BarbaraBB, RebelReader, Addison_Reads, Ruthiella, sarahbarnesCinfhen Ohhh, I like that you ranked your books😍I really hope Seven Moons doesn‘t win, only because it already won an award 🤓 14mo
BarbaraBB Oooh so interesting! I have to read Seven Moons yet (or at least try to) and then I‘ll post mine too! 14mo
Hooked_on_books Seven Moons won‘t win, the Passenger will. 😜 I love that you loved The Violin Conspiracy. Me too! It was one of my favorites of 2022. I read it in the spring and it‘s still with me. Marvelous book. I have one left to go (Goose) and look forward to ranking my books after I finish that one, inspired by you! 14mo
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Chelsea.Poole I have neglected Seven Moons and even managed to read the McCarthy ahead of it because I'm dreading it so lol...I like your rankings! I really liked Violin and Olga as well. 14mo
Ruthiella Nice! Is great to see them arrayed like that. I‘ll try to do the same when I‘m done, but I have 4 books still to read. 😅 (edited) 14mo
Megabooks Love the visuals and the explanation!! We agree on some and not others, but yes, Olga, Violin, and even Dinosaurs are very blah for the tob, especially when there were books like How High We Go… and Our Wives Under the Sea that didn‘t even make the longlist. Btw, I‘m still keeping an eye out for Grown Ups, but it hasn‘t arrived. Thanks for sending it!! 14mo
squirrelbrain So difficult to rank them @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books @Ruthiella @Chelsea.Poole - I‘ve changed my mind several times already since posting, and will probably keep changing it! 14mo
squirrelbrain @Megabooks - I posted it only the day before Royal Mail announced the cyber attack that stopped all international outgoing mail for the last month (and is still ongoing). I would imagine it‘s right at the bottom of a big heap of parcels, although they are working through the backlog now apparently. (We still can‘t take new international parcels to the PO). 🙄 14mo
ashw21 Loved so many of these books..Violin Conspiracy and Tomorrow X3 were in my top 10 last year! Seven Moons was a 4-star read for me as were Babel, Nightcrawling, book of goose! 14mo
jlhammar So great to see your wrap-up! I‘m hoping to tackle a few more over the next couple of weeks. Can‘t wait to see what the ToB judges make of these. @Megabooks Yes! I was kind of surprised that How High and Our Wives weren‘t chosen as they seem like exactly the kinds of books they might have gravitated towards in the past. Definitely kind of a strange ToB year. 14mo
Librarybelle Awesome! Love to see your overall ranking! 14mo
Suet624 Love this! 14mo
batsy Fun! I have something like personal beef with Seven Moons, so I'm hoping it doesn't win 😅 14mo
squirrelbrain @ashw21 - you‘ve read so many! Are you joining in with our own Tournament of Books here on Litsy? We all vote on the brackets and see how our choices compare with the actual ToB judges. Tagging @BarbaraBB as she is our wonderful host! 14mo
BarbaraBB Thanks for the tag Helen! You‘re very welcome to join us @ashw21 ! 14mo
ashw21 @squirrelbrain thank you so much .. would love to.. I am very new to Litsy so still learning !! 14mo
ashw21 @BarbaraBB thank you so much! So lovely to be part of this wonderful community.. I am very new to Litsy so still learning .. thank you will try and join 14mo
squirrelbrain Welcome @ashw21 - Litsy is a lovely place to be! You can search the #tob hashtag to see everyone‘s thoughts on the various books. All the Littens tagged into those posts are the ones following #tob this year, and all wonderful people to follow! 14mo
BarbaraBB @ashw21 I‘ll tag you in upcoming posts about #tob23b 14mo
Larkken Interesting wrap up! I am not sure I‘ll be able to finish them all in time, myself. I‘ll have to compare my list to yours when I get there though! 14mo
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