Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hello! I’m Bob, and as part of my Booker project, I’m going back over all the old shortlists from the prize!

Now, 25 years after it was announced, here is the 1999 list! Have you read any of these?

Books Mentioned:

00:00 Introduction and Context
00:36 JM Coetzee- Disgrace
06:27 Anita Desai- Fasting, Feasting
09:27 Michael Frayn- Headlong
12:39 Andrew O’Hagan- Our Fathers
14:52 Ahdaf Soueif- The Map of Love
18:22 Colm Tóibín- The Blackwater Lightship
21:32 My Favourites

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