Show Notes for 7/31 episode of The Bookmark:

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Intimations by Zadie Smith

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

Let the Great World Spin by Column McCann

The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

A Year in the World by Frances Mayes

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Silent of the Girls by Pat Barker

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

The Children of Jocasta by Natalie Haynes

The Furies by Natalie Haynes

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Jodi Picoult, Anita Shreve, Kristin Hannah

Adriana Trigian Elinor Lipman, Jennifer Haigh

Anita Brookner, Barbara Pym, Margaret Drabble

New World Sourdough: Artisan Techniques for Creative Homemade Fermented Breads by Bryan Ford

2020 Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist:

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (forthcoming Aug. 11)

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (already out)

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (forthcoming March 2021)

Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze (no US publication date)

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel (already out)

Apeirogon by Colum McCann (already out)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (already out)

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (already out)

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (already out)

Real Life by Brandon Taylor (already out)

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (already out)

Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (no US publication date)

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (already out)

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

North Main Book Notes blogpost about the longlist: https://northmainbooknotes.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-2020-booker-prize-longlist.html

Booker Prize 2020 Longlist Reaction Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ucGvLk0cs