Post Your Pick for The Man Booker Prize

Scott Simon, Host, Weekend Edition Saturday

Will Grozier at work in Greens Park, London, England.

Caroline Simon

 

Will Grozier, bowled over by 1992 Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje.

Caroline Simon

My wife and I got into a cab in London about five years ago and haven't stopped talking to the driver since. Will Grozier, a London taxi driver, is simply the best-read man I know (and I work with Dan Schorr!).

Will reads deeply, incessantly and even indiscriminately--novels, histories, survival stories and philosophies, current books, remaindered books, old classics and books long forgotten. When you step into his cab and take a peek in the front seat, you'll see a couple of books he picked up from the remainders shelf, something that someone left in the back of his cab, and something he couldn't wait to read and picked up as soon as it came out. In fact, you have to move the books aside sometimes to fit in a suitcase.

We enjoy taking about books with Will on Weekend Edition Saturday. He reads as many of us do: a few at the same time, something borrowed, something new, something left, something blue. And you will be struck by his insights, and the ways in which his reading blossoms from one book to the next.

This week, Will talks about several of the books that have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, and perhaps the most influential prize for fiction in the world. Listen for Will's picks, and send us your own:

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