Ep 37: Are Literary Prizes A Reading List? Inside the Nobel, Pulitzer, Booker & National Book Award

In the height of Prize Season, Amanda and Joseph are back with a bumper episode asking what all the hullabaloo is about - how are prizes judged and awarded, and are the winners worth our time? Plus, they talk about Amanda’s recent trip to the Women’s Prize ceremony, and as always, what they’ve been reading recently and what they hope to pick up next. Bookish NewsHay FestivalCareless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams @sarahww_Women’s PrizeWomen’s Prize Live and other eventsRivals on Disney+Felicity Blunt @thebluntofficeLaura WadeKatherine Parkinson @parkinson.katherineField Work as a Sex Object by Meena Kadasamy @k.a.n.d.a.s.a.m.yRapture by Emily Maguire @emilymaguirewriterThese Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany @salmaelwardanyThe Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet @lyse.doucetThe Correspondent by Virgina Evans @virginia.l.evansDominion by Addie E. Kitchens @addie_citchensThe Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson @marxia1Recent ReadsAir by Christian KrachtEurotrash by Christian KrachtImperium by Christian KrachtYou With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate @christinapplegatePrizes and Prize-Worthy RecommendationsThe Nobel Prize for LiteratureThe Pulitzer Prize for FictionThe Booker PrizeNational Book Award Milkman by Anna Burns‘The Hemingway Veto’ and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Riders In The Chariot by Patrick WhiteThe Tree of Man by Patrick WhiteThe Rabbit Hutch by Tess GuntyMartyr by Kaveh Akbar @kavehakbar.kavehakbarMoon Tiger by Penelope LivelyTrust by Hernan DiazWhat We’re Reading NextThe Beautiful Ones by Prince and Dan Piepenbring The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout @lizstroutauthorAlso mentionedCurious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudioFollow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast and Bluesky @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social for more recommendations in between episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.