2010 Booker Prize Shortlist Nominees

ReviewofBooks.com provides a list of shortlisted Man Booker Prize Nominees with links to lengthy reviews from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and more here.

ReviewofBooks.com is a great resource if you are looking for book reviews longer than a paragraph.

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100 Best First Lines from Novels

21. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. —James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

26. 124 was spiteful. —Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)

41. The moment one learns English, complications set in. —Felipe Alfau, Chromos (1990)

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