Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 59 minutes ago
Happy start-of-autumn month! It's September and here's the book news, including some book ban-related developments, an absurd number of hot new releases (including Sally Rooney, Olga Tokarczuk, Richard Powers, and more) and all the usual bits and bobs.
The word of the month, apparently, is 'particularly'. Please don't count how many times I say it 😅
Bookloop by Bookshop.org:
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Curated Kindle deals list:
amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3TVIFMVNIAEM1
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00:00 Book news
03:43 Prize news and dates
05:19 New book releases
13:04 Deals
13:35 Books on screen
14:08 Feelgood story
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#books #booktube #booknews
Happy start-of-autumn month! It's September and here's the book news, including some book ban-related developments, an absurd number of hot new releases (including Sally Rooney, Olga Tokarczuk, Richard Powers, and more) and all the usual bits and bobs.
The word of the month, apparently, is 'particularly'. Please don't count how many times I say it 😅
Bookloop by Bookshop.org:
bookshop.zeercle.com
Curated Kindle deals list:
amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3TVIFMVNIAEM1
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00:00 Book news
03:43 Prize news and dates
05:19 New book releases
13:04 Deals
13:35 Books on screen
14:08 Feelgood story
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
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![A reading list for nonfiction November
Some books Im hoping to read for nonfiction November.
Note: I was way off thinking Flanagan won the Booker in 2007. It was 2013!
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Books mentioned:
📖 The Story of a Heart, by Rachel Clarke
📖 Raising Hare, by Chloe Dalton
📖 Question 7, by Richard Flanagan
📖 Challenger, by Adam Higginbotham
📖 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli (tr. Simon Carnell and Erica Segre)
📖 Stay True, by Hua Hsu
📖 Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
📖 Constructing a Nervous System, by Margo Jefferson
📖 This House of Grief, by Helen Garner
📖 The Last Act of Love, by Cathy Rentzenbrink
📖 Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
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#books #booktube #nonfiction A reading list for nonfiction November](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gZu_FgZL148/mqdefault.jpg)
![Book prize predictions • Goldsmiths Prize and Nobel Prize
You know I love a prize prediction video, so heres another couple to throw in the mix!
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlist is looking for fiction at its most novel and its shortlist will be announced on 2 October.
The Nobel is awarded for a body of work, and well find out this years recipient on 10 October.
If youd like some more informed Nobel predictions, check out @TheDiscoKingOfficials video here:
https://youtu.be/bethsmnLKCU?si=t0IUmiWxHptv0uhj
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00:00 Goldsmiths Prize
05:54 Nobel Prize
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#books #booktube #bookprizes Book prize predictions • Goldsmiths Prize and Nobel Prize](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gjHgnUKrexo/mqdefault.jpg)
![5 dystopian novels (ranked by plausibility)
Dystopian books? Apocalyptic books? Post-apocalypic books? Whatever you call them, these 5 novels play out the end of the world and how that might look. I read and ranked these books, and judged how realistic their depiction of the downfall of society felt to me. And a few are definitely recommend reading.
Funnily enough, I read all of these mostly by chance recently. So this also serves as a bit of a reading wrap-up.
I didnt mention this in the video, by @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf did a great video comparing the book and movie of The End We Start From, which you can check out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaEaOSiYtmo
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Books mentioned:
📖 Delphi, by Clare Pollard
📖 Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam
📖 The Doloriad, by Missouri Williams
📖 The End We Start From, by Megan Hunter
📖 Jungle House, by Julianne Pachico
📖 Severance, by Ling Ma
📖 Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel
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00:00 Why is there so much apocalyptic fiction?
02:37 5th place
05:49 4th place
08:38 3rd place
10:55 2nd place
13:36 1st place
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#books #booktube #dystopianbooks 5 dystopian novels (ranked by plausibility)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hA27Cz9xf48/mqdefault.jpg)
![Books I read in February • Reading wrap-up
Five book reviews for February! Perhaps a bit more of a mixed bag than last month though, including a book that actively annoyed me.
Look out for the upcoming 10k giveaway on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
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Creators mentioned:
@FreshlyReadBooks (TBR spin)
@SavidgeReads and @louisesavidgemuses4135 (Savidge Prompts)
@stalkingkafka
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Books mentioned:
📖 Juice, by Tim Winton
📖 Three Fires, by Denise Mina
📖 The List of Suspicious Things, by Jenni Godfrey
📖 Dengue Boy, by Michel Nieva (tr. Rahul Bery)
📖 The Sea, by John Banville
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00:00 10k subs plans
01:24 Juice
05:35 Three Fires
08:51 The List of Suspicious Things
12:34 Dengue Boy
16:09 The Sea
18:50 Goals and challenges
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#books #booktube #readingwrapup Books I read in February • Reading wrap-up](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hITcXiF59UQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![Books I read in March and April • Reading wrap-up
9 books in March and 8 in April... but dont worry Im not doing 17 book reviews in this video 👀 Lots of interesting stuff in here though, including International Booker Prize shortlisted books, and some great recent releases.
BookTube Prize reviews:
https://youtu.be/T09-Fm03WI0?si=m42yvhcF-PpHv-Qh
Womens Prize reviews:
https://youtu.be/ArJ0sm5kC1A?si=06BuFlLEFqTQ0ylr
James by Percival Everett review:
https://youtu.be/aFX_E1lEgvo?si=iWFX3J_oWEJKghrN
@TheDiscoKingOfficial review of What Id Rather Not Think About
https://youtu.be/wN-iiCxctcQ?si=CsbIaIW6aOVStJYN
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Books mentioned in this video:
📖 James, by Percival Everett
📖 Julia, by Sandra Newman
📖 True Grit, by Charles Portis
📖 What Id Rather Not Think About, by Jente Posthuma (translated by Sarah Harvey Timmer)
📖 The Details, by Ia Genberg (translated by Kira Josefsson)
📖 The Borrowed Hills, by Scott Preston
📖 The Spoiled Heart, by Sunjeev Sahota
📖 Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie
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00:00 Intro
00:39 Julia
03:24 True Grit
05:59 What Id Rather Not Think About
08:56 The Details
10:56 The Borrowed Hills
14:11 The Spoiled Heart
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#books #booktube #readingwrapup Books I read in March and April • Reading wrap-up](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hS-Z8o-aOCc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Intermezzo by Sally Rooney • Book review 📚
Finally got around to reading Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, and heres my review.
Clip used from Chicken Shop Date by @AmeliaDimoldenberg
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#books #booktube #bookreview Intermezzo by Sally Rooney • Book review 📚](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hkQUjTvPEzE/mqdefault.jpg)
![The best books I read in 2025
Were here again at the end of another year, and here are my 10 favourite books I read in 2025. Plus some honourable mentions that it pained me to leave out.
Hopefully you find some recommendations worth reading in here. Let me know if youve read any, and what your favourite reads of the year have been!
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Standalone reviews of some of these books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2V3H5e8qs&list=PLSlUBOJVTh7Mq4NBoIFl2Fd-qCXuU4tgo&index=6
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00:00 Reflections on my reading year
02:05 Honourable mentions
03:24 Rank 10-6
09:37 Rank 5-1
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#books #booktube #readingwrapup The best books I read in 2025](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/i50Tr4zRexg/mqdefault.jpg)
![The Booker Prize is fixing one of its biggest problems
Theres a rule change coming for the Booker Prize, and it shows theyre listening to readers.
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Books mentioned:
📖 Flesh, by David Szalay
📖 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
📖 Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
📖 The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
📖 Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernadine Evaristo
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https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/3717542a-a44b-452b-bbc1-046ae5ec8fab
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
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#books #booktube #bookerprize The Booker Prize is fixing one of its biggest problems](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iWdx8Lhu26A/mqdefault.jpg)
![Booker Prize 2023 shortlist thoughts and my winner prediction
Its been months since I did a video on the Booker, but on the eve of the winners ceremony, I wanted to reflect a little on the Booker Prize shortlist and share my thoughts on who is going to win.
If youd like to see my more in-depth reviews of all the books on the shortlist, check them out below.
Longlist ranking: https://youtu.be/dTZ_wC_UzKc
Part 1: https://youtu.be/nx2caL3ekGM
Part 2: https://youtu.be/AW5O3gq61g0
Part 3: https://youtu.be/zfUGToe0FVE
Part 4: https://youtu.be/223d6RZClVE
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Books mentioned:
📖 This Other Eden, by Paul Harding
📖 The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray
📖 If I Survive You, by Jonathan Escoffery
📖 Study for Obedience, by Sarah Bernstein
📖 Western Lane, by Chetna Maroo
📖 Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
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00:00 Longlist thoughts
01:52 Format breakdown
02:36 Ranking
09:42 Goodreads shortlist
11:30 Judges shortlist prediction
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![Explosive Facebook memoir, AI copyright theft, Womens Prize shortlists | BOOK NEWS 🗞️
Heres this months dose of book prize news 👀
ChatGPT short story:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/12/a-machine-shaped-hand-read-a-story-from-openais-new-creative-writing-model
Jeanette Wintersons opinion piece on the above:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/12/jeanette-winterson-ai-alternative-intelligence-its-capacity-to-be-other-is-just-what-the-human-race-needs
The Atlantics Libgen search tool:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Penguins 90 Little Book Stops:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/campaigns/90-little-book-stops
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00:00 Book news
07:24 Prize news
12:30 New book releases
18:58 Books on screen
21:13 Feelgood story
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#books #booktube #booknews Explosive Facebook memoir, AI copyright theft, Womens Prize shortlists | BOOK NEWS 🗞️](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jW2wdcxZDZU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Bookish gift guide 📚 Specific book recommendations, and great gifts for book lovers
Christmas is almost here, which means stressing out about which chocolates your family members might like and whether that scarf is too cheap/expensive/ugly for Aunt Gertrude.
But if youve got any book lovers to buy for, check out this video for some great ideas!
The video is in two parts: some book gifts for certain types of people, and then some non-book gifts if youre worried the weight of one more book might bring their house crashing down.
One correction: Placeholders by James Roseman is set in Boston, not Baltimore!
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Booktubers mentioned:
@kiranreader (originally recommended Rhine Journey)
@CJReads (owner of Sunnys Book Truck)
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Links to select things shown
Paper + Word book sleeves
https://paperandword.com/collections/book-kindle-sleeves
Bookshelf guide
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1076581157/booktok-bookshelf-guide-align-books
Sunnys Book Truck merch
https://www.sunnysbooktruck.com/merch
Storysmith t-shirt
https://storysmithbooks.com/product-category/merch/
Womens Prize merch
https://womensprize.com/product-category/t-shirts/
Cercador Prize hats
https://www.bonfire.com/store/cercador-prize-fundraising-merch/
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00:00 Book gifts for someone who...
01:09 ...wants to get back into reading
02:01 ...has read everything
04:43 ...doesnt like contemporary lit
07:23 ...likes movies AND books
09:25 ...is (or has) a child
10:37 ...wants to dip their toe into sci-fi
11:25 ...loves Elena Ferrante
12:49 ...has endured the nightmare of renting
13:44 ...needs another messy woman book
14:48 ...is a man who needs to feel things
15:57 Books NOT to buy
17:58 Non-book gifts
24:43 Non-book gifts NOT to buy
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#books #booktube #giftguide2024 Bookish gift guide 📚 Specific book recommendations, and great gifts for book lovers](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k8wED5x7Jec/mqdefault.jpg)