I always read the awards with interest and will check out the synopsis of a book I think I might enjoy. I don’t always love The Booker Award picks, although I found THE PROPHET’S STORY from a year or so ago a masterpiece.
I do pay attention to the awards, but I pay the most attention to the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. I recently made a list of all the Pulitzer Prize winners since its inception in 1918. I have read 29 of them…and I might just try to read them all.
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Only the Edgar Awards. With few exceptions the Pulitzer & Booker awards reward books that critics think people should read, but few people actually read. And flyer the scandals involving Pulitzer Prizes for news reporting, I tend to have little trust for the process.
Too ‘political’. And I rarely enjoy any recommendations by the NYT or Washington Post.
I pay attention to them, but I go more by reviews from people I know and by blurbs.