Booker Prize Bucket List

Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.

A Bangalore driver murders his master and explains why in letters to the Chinese premier; Adiga's Booker.

A Seoul woman stops eating meat and her family cannot bear it; the Booker International that led to Han Kang's Nobel.

A boy and a tiger in a lifeboat for 227 days, and the second story at the end.

An unnamed girl in an unnamed Belfast stalked by a paramilitary; Anna Burns' Booker.

Willie Lincoln's ghost and a graveyard chorus on one night in 1862; Saunders' Booker.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

A Cape Town professor loses his job and moves to his daughter's farm; Coetzee's second Booker.

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.

Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.

Twins in Kerala and the day that ruined everything; Roy's Booker debut.