Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 22 minutes ago

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Thought I'd start the year off with a fun little challenge, and a chance to vlog the first few days of 2025.

Reviewing the books as I go (which chimes with one of my reading goals) but of course they’re all shorties (which doesn’t). Definitely some books here that I would recommend you to read!

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Books mentioned:
📖 Celebration, by Damir Karakas (tr. Ellen Elias-Bursac)
📖 Shy, by Max Porter
📖 A Room Above a Shop, by Anthony Shapland
📖 The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain, by Sofia Samatar
📖 Maud Martha, by Gwendolyn Brooks
📖 Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

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Music by Stream Cafe, licensed via Ko-fi

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Thank you so much for watching.

📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2025:
youtu.be/sl6NEuMRXF4
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/b9e80f78-e8d0-464e-b460-c2e1034dc707

✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: instagram.com/benreadsgood
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🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA

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