[seanyyz]

Personally I'm dreading the Booker long list that comes out late July (the short list is even worse in the fall. There are always some great books on there every year and I always feel obligated.

It's a fiction thing. If you aren't familiar with it it is a prize that is quite high profile in literary fiction especially outside the US. I think it was originally created in response to the Pulitzer and National Book Award since it used to exclude American authors. Now it is for any book published during a given year in Great Britain that was originally written in English regardless of nationality of the author. There is also a separate prize for books written in languages other than English called the Man Booker International prize.

Some years are easier than others if the judges pick books that seem like duds but other years are a lot more work (and pleasure)) when they have found a bunch of great books.

So I have the top 10 on my TBR to try and get through before then.