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  The Lost Booker  EmmaD at 08:27 on 01 February 2010
 

Because of a change in the rules, a years-worth of the best writing couldn't be considered for the 1971 Booker Prize... So they're running it again:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/01/lost-man-booker-longlist-1970

Which would you give it to?

Emma
  Re: The Lost Booker  FloraPost at 08:51 on 01 February 2010
 

How interesting that it's a much more populist longlist than would ever occur in a "normal" year. Patrick O'Brian, for example, I seriously doubt he would ever have been included had the prize actually been assessed in 1971.

It just goes to show how hindsight changes perception. I don't know who I'd vote for - there are so many on that list that I love, and many more that I haven't read.
  Re: The Lost Booker  Account Closed at 21:56 on 15 February 2010
 

Ditto Brian Aldiss. Who I'd vote for, simply because the speculative genres, despite producing certain works of great literary merit, almost never gets a look in.

JB
  Re: The Lost Booker  Jem at 22:44 on 15 February 2010
 

I'd go for Ruth Rendell because she's kept me entertained more than any other novelist since about 1982.
  Re: The Lost Booker  BeckyC at 12:37 on 16 February 2010
 

I haven't read many of them, but Out of the Shelter by David Lodge would probably get my vote.
  Re: The Lost Booker  optimist at 21:14 on 16 February 2010
 

Has to be Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

One of my all time favourite books.

Sarah