Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

2010 – “The Finkler Question” by Howard Jacobson 2009 – “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel 2008 – “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga 2007 – “The Gathering” by Anne Enright 2006 – “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai 2005 – “The Sea” by John Banville 2004 – “The Line of Beauty” by Alan Hollinghurst 2003 – “Vernon God Little” by DBC Pierre 2002 – “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel 2001 – “True History of the Kelly Gang” by Peter Carey 2000 – “The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood The Booker Prize (or the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, for the more exacting among you) was set up in 1969 by Booker-McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company. Sponsored at present by the Man Group, a British investment company, and administered by the National Book League in the United Kingdom, this prestigious award is given to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe. Here’s a list taken from the book “Eighty Years of Bestsellers” which gives the ten most successful fiction books in America from 1895-1975. 15 Look at the list of winners of the Booker Prize (2000–2010) and check out the titles on the internet. Find out who won the Booker after 2010. 16 • With the help of an encyclopedia, a CD-ROM, a reference work on literature or the internet, find out something about the books. • If you had to name two for your personal reading list, which would you pick and why? • Then, use the same resources to draw up a list of the ten best-selling authors over the last 35 years. Title Author Publication date Copies printed (up to 1975) The Godfather Mario Puzo 1969 13,000,000 The Exorcist William Blatty 1971 11,702,097 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 11,113,909 Peyton Place Grace Metalious 1956 10,672,302 Love Story Erich Segal 1970   9,905,627 Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susan 1966   9,500,000 Jaws Peter Benchley 1974   9,475,418 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970   9,055,000 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936   8,630,000 God´s Little Acre Erskine Caldwell 1933   8,258,400 63 3 Extensive unit 3: I love books Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv