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Hey everyone - here is my first reading wrap-up from this year's Booker Prize longlist. Let me know what you think of these books, and which ones you're most excited for!
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00:00 The Rest of Our Lives
06:03 Love Forms
10:36 The South
14:41 Universality
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Books mentioned:
๐ The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits
๐ Love Forms, by Claire Adams
๐ The South, by Tash Aw
๐ Universality, by Natasha Brown
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#books #booktube #bookerprize
Hey everyone - here is my first reading wrap-up from this year's Booker Prize longlist. Let me know what you think of these books, and which ones you're most excited for!
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00:00 The Rest of Our Lives
06:03 Love Forms
10:36 The South
14:41 Universality
โ
Books mentioned:
๐ The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits
๐ Love Forms, by Claire Adams
๐ The South, by Tash Aw
๐ Universality, by Natasha Brown
โ
Thank you so much for watching.
๐ Join the Read Good Challenge 2025:
youtu.be/sl6NEuMRXF4
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/b9e80f78-e8d0-464e-b460-c2e1034dc707
โ๏ธ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
๐ธ Instagram: instagram.com/benreadsgood
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#books #booktube #bookerprize
![Reacting to the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist
Weve got ourselves a longlist for the International Booker Prize 2025! And it seems like a corker. Join me while I wait for a video thats never coming, and then watch the reveal ๐
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Books mentioned:
๐ A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre (tr. by Mark Hutchinson)
๐ On a Womanโs Madness by Astrid Roemer (tr. Lucy Scott)
๐ Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi)
๐ Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (tr. Sophie Hughes)
๐ Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (tr. Daniel Bowles)
๐ Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Japanese by Asa Yoneda)
๐ Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (tr. Polly Barton)
๐ Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (tr. by Helen Stevenson)
๐ Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (tr. Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary)
๐ Solenoid by Mircea Cฤrtฤrescu (tr. Sean Cotter)
๐ Thereโs a Monster Behind the Door by Gaรซlle Bรฉlem (tr. Karen Fleetwood and Laรซtitia Saint-Lubert)
๐ On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J Haveland)
๐ The Book of Disappearance, by Ibtisam Azem (tr. by Sinan Antoon)
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![The best books I read in 2023 (and you should read them too)
Well this has come around fast, hasnt it? Here are my favourite books of 2023 (that I read, not that were released).
Last year I only did a top 5, but I read so many great books in 2023 that this time around Ive gone for a top 10. And even that was tough to narrow down, so you get 5 honourable mentions at the end as well.
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://youtu.be/pYNHKHVIZl0
https://youtu.be/fYdgk0Q2CGg
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00:00 Reflections on my reading year
02:10 Rank 10-5
08:17 Rank 5-1
15:10 Honourable mentions
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![A big indie press book haul
I was very lucky to go along to the inaugural Indie Showcase with @BobTheBookerer recently. Here are all the books I came away with!
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Books mentioned:
๐ I Died at Fallow Hall, by Bonnie Burke-Patel
๐ American Spirits, by Russell Banks
๐ Above Us the Sea, by Ania Cain
๐ The Boy with the Black Rooster, by Stefanie vor Schulte (translated by Alexandra Roesch)
๐ My Favourite, by Sarah Jollien-Fardel (translated by Holly James)
๐ The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things, by Suzanne Joinson
๐ A Person is a Prayer, by Ammar Kalia
๐ Grimmish, by Michael Winkler
๐ The Body in the Library, by Graham Caveney
๐ Sunburn, by Chloe Michelle Howarth
๐ Blue Hour, by Tiffany Clarke Harrison
๐ Placeholders, by James Roseman
๐ Isaac, by Curtis Gardner
๐ The Way the Day Breaks, by David Roberts
๐ Amma, by Saraid de Silva
๐ The Pages of the Sea, by Anne Hawk
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00:00 The event!
02:25 Bedford Square Publishers
04:40 Dead Ink Books
05:55 The Indigo Press
09:00 Oldcastle Books
10:26 Peninsula Press
12:05 Verve Books
16:24 Weatherglass Books
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#books #booktube #bookhaul A big indie press book haul](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4cxSb0rlYHA/mqdefault.jpg)


![Booker Prize book reviews โข The Safekeep, Playground, This Strange Eventful History
Heres another batch of Booker reviews - Im having a pretty great time with the list so far! Let me know how youre getting on.
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Books mentioned
๐ The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden
๐ Playground, by Richard Powers
๐ This Strange Eventful History, by Claire Messud
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00:00 The Safekeep
03:42 Playground
08:08 This Strange Eventful History
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![Short book recommendations (to help hit your reading goals)
Do you need a few short book recommendations to help hit your Storygraph or Goodreads reading goal? I got you!
These are 10 books I think could make for a wonderful short book December, and help you go into 2024 feeling good about your reading, and not crap because Goodreads told you youโre a failure.
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00:00 Reading goals
01:56 ITโS NOT A COMPETITION
02:54 The ones Iโve read
10:02 The ones I havenโt read
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Booktubers mentioned:
@louisesavidgemuses4135
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#books #booktube #bookrecommendations Short book recommendations (to help hit your reading goals)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6jusVa-2Pkc/mqdefault.jpg)

![Bookshelf organisation and a big book unhaul ๐
Join me for a mini bookshelf tour, some bookshelf organisation (or organization for my North American pals), and an unhaul of some books Ive decided not to keep.
Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it!
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00:00 I have too many books
01:05 Bookshelf tour
04:40 Unloading the shelves
09:29 Unhaul
20:03 Restacking the shelves
21:06 Final results
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![Predicting the Womens Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 longlist ๐ฎ
Ive got too much FOMO, so lets have a go at predicting the Womens Prize for Non-Fiction. Well, not really a prediction, but some books Id be interested to read if they were nominated. And Im going to read *one*, pinky promise!
One thing I meant to say at the end of the video, this list is almost impossible because 4 of the books featured are all from the same publisher: Canongate. The reason I have copies of these ones are because I went to an event and they were thrust into my hands, and I also got to hear from some of the authors. These books havent been included because I received copies, but I want to be clear about where I got them. Those books are Foreign Fruit, The Dry Season, Hark, and The Acid Queen. The other one I have a physical copy of in this video is one I bought for myself ๐
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Books mentioned:
Youll have to watch and see ๐
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Creators mentioned:
@JentheLibrarianreads
@CharlieBrookReads
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00:00 Womenโs Prize for Non-Fiction
02:01 Memoir
06:37 AI
08:30 The Natural World
12:52 Sounds
14:09 The Women Behind Change
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#books #booktube #womensprize Predicting the Womens Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 longlist ๐ฎ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Bs-APm9wp8/mqdefault.jpg)
![13 books Id love to see on this years Booker longlist
13 (well, 15) more books that I would be delighted to see on the Booker Prize longlist this year.
If youd like to see my actual predictions, or just hear more about the Booker eligibility rules and judges, you can watch that video here:
https://youtu.be/T63Z6_54sQg?si=HdAD5ElqCJshLVFc
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00:00 Intro
02:16 Just missed out
06:36 Indies
12:56 Under the radar
16:35 Historical
18:55 Bonus
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#books #booktube #bookerprize 13 books Id love to see on this years Booker longlist](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8QiGd6iD9a8/mqdefault.jpg)