Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
A rundown not just of my favourites of 2023, but *every* book I read.
The twist? Each book is only described using the same number of words as the star rating I gave the book.
I did this last year and found it a really fun way to reflect on my year of reading, and it was just as much fun this time.
I've also included some reading stats, which are a bit more detailed this year thanks to my recent switch over to The StoryGraph.
Hopefully you will find some good book recommendations among these!
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If you want to hear my more detailed take on some of these books, here's a playlist with all my reading wrap-ups: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSlUBOJVTh7OjcHWODqCH_Nr1gqtHYyID&si=9w2V5x3gpXS9qjWc
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00:00 Intro and reading stats
02:44 86 book reviews
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: instagram.com/benreadsgood
📊 Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 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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#books #booktube #readingwrapup
A rundown not just of my favourites of 2023, but *every* book I read.
The twist? Each book is only described using the same number of words as the star rating I gave the book.
I did this last year and found it a really fun way to reflect on my year of reading, and it was just as much fun this time.
I've also included some reading stats, which are a bit more detailed this year thanks to my recent switch over to The StoryGraph.
Hopefully you will find some good book recommendations among these!
—
If you want to hear my more detailed take on some of these books, here's a playlist with all my reading wrap-ups: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSlUBOJVTh7OjcHWODqCH_Nr1gqtHYyID&si=9w2V5x3gpXS9qjWc
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00:00 Intro and reading stats
02:44 86 book reviews
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: instagram.com/benreadsgood
📊 Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 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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#books #booktube #readingwrapup
![Read Good Challenge 2025 | Reading prompts for every month of the year
Looking for to add some fun to your 2025 reading? Join the Read Good Challenge! Theres a prompt for each month of the year, plus a wildcard if you get stuck.
Here are some resources you can use to read along with the challenge 👇
Storygraph challenge:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/b9e80f78-e8d0-464e-b460-c2e1034dc707
Instagram story image:
https://ibb.co/YRG1DK6
Printable image:
https://ibb.co/F3BDQMV
Womens Prize winners:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction_winners
Booker Prize nominees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_nominated_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize
Reading Shame Forgiveness Month video:
https://youtu.be/KCF5nMZetsE?si=NrJiRdpiD1tKWFf5
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Booktubers mentioned:
@madeubook
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00:00 Intro
03:34 January
05:12 February
07:01 March
08:34 April
09:55 May
11:41 June
13:36 July
14:16 August
15:20 September
16:07 October
17:30 November
19:33 December
20:48 Wildcard
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Thank you so much for watching.
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
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#books #booktube #reading Read Good Challenge 2025 | Reading prompts for every month of the year](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sl6NEuMRXF4/mqdefault.jpg)
![The best books I read in 2024
Another great year of reading, but here are my 10 favourite books I read in 2024, plus some honourable mentions.
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/aFX_E1lEgvo?si=xrHii0FnX2vY6wRE
https://youtu.be/_NeyVSq7CrE?si=l5MprrnwRebxnLF3
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00:00 Reflections on my reading year
01:50 Honourable mentions
02:55 Rank 10-6
10:33 Rank 5-1
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl6NEuMRXF4
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/b9e80f78-e8d0-464e-b460-c2e1034dc707
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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#books #booktube #readingwrapup The best books I read in 2024](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/smowV2njtP4/mqdefault.jpg)
![I ranked the Booker Prize longlist from worst to best (the thumbnail is a lie)
Ive completed my read through of the Booker longlist, so its time to rank the books 🎉
Booker shortlist announcement livestream (7pm BST, Tuesday 22 September):
https://www.youtube.com/live/flqqU7bznxA?si=dNtmxTEQstdGovWj
My review videos:
https://youtu.be/GdQa211odIw?si=WF1zs3jORNU4hV6z
https://youtu.be/rbmMyl87VhU?si=bt4e-i6_f-OvGMa3
00:00 Longlist thoughts
02:04 Goodreads shortlist
04:59 Themes
08:10 Ranking
28:49 Shortlist predictions
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Books mentioned (plus Goodreads rating + number of rankings at the time of my research, in case youre interested)
📖 The Disappearers, by Marlon James - 4.31 - 1,066
📖 John of John, by Douglas Stuart - 4.27 - 38,866
📖 Switzy, by Emma Cline - 4.20 - 1,995
📖 The Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth Strout - 4.12 - 92,403
📖 All Them Dogs, by Djamel White - 3.87 - 3,965
📖 The Renovation, by Kenan Orhan - 3.81 - 2,392
📖 May We Feed the King, by Rebecca Perry - 3.75 - 4,294
📖 Black Bag, by Luke Kennard - 3.69 - 3,588
📖 The Shadow of the Object, by Chloe Aridjis - 3.32 - 1,447
📖 The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley - 3.23 - 4,606
📖 The Vivisectors, by Missouri Williams - 3.19 - 1,780
📖 Helen of Nowhere, by Makenna Goodman - 3.04 - 3,598
📖 The End of Everything, by M John Harrison - 2.97 - 1,625
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2026:
https://youtu.be/i50Tr4zRexg
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/3717542a-a44b-452b-bbc1-046ae5ec8fab
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
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#books #booktube #bookerprize I ranked the Booker Prize longlist from worst to best (the thumbnail is a lie)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tJ7H3VXh9m8/mqdefault.jpg)

![Predicting the International Booker Prize 2026 longlist 🔮
Wake up babe, its Booker season. Here are my predictions of which 13 books will appear on this years International Booker Prize longlist.
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Books mentioned:
Youll have to watch and see 😉
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00:00 Intro and eligibility rules
04:31 2026 judges
06:02 Acts of remembering
09:06 Political urgency
11:57 N*zis are bad
13:34 Work sucks
15:45 Dark energy
19:40 The ones that got away...
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2026:
https://youtu.be/i50Tr4zRexg
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/3717542a-a44b-452b-bbc1-046ae5ec8fab
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
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#books #booktube #internationalbookerprize Predicting the International Booker Prize 2026 longlist 🔮](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uAXxP1YYZGI/mqdefault.jpg)
![Most anticipated books of 2026
Some books Im looking forward to coming out in the first half of the year.
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Books mentioned:
📖 Arborescence, by Rhett Davis
📖 Vigil, by George Saunders
📖 A Guardian and a Thief, by Megha Majumdar
📖 The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine
📖 Discipline, by Larissa Pham
📖 Orange, by Curtis Garner
📖 My Death, by Lisa Tuttle
📖 Paradiso 17, by Hannah Lillith Assadi
📖 The Renovation, by Kenan Orhan
📖 The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley
📖 Son of Nobody, by Yann Martel
📖 How to Fall Apart, by Ashley Hickson-Lovence
📖 Smallie, by Eden McKenzie-Goddard
📖 Whistler, by Ann Patchett
📖 Country People, by Daniel Mason
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2026:
https://youtu.be/i50Tr4zRexg
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/3717542a-a44b-452b-bbc1-046ae5ec8fab
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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#books #booktube #newbookreleases Most anticipated books of 2026](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uoEh6ncelrA/mqdefault.jpg)
![Recent reads (including Han Kang, Toni Morrison and Jennifer Egan)
I am so behind with my book reviews, so heres a reading wrap-up of some (but not all) of my October reads... lots to recommend here!
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Creators mentioned:
@TheDiscoKingOfficial
@SavidgeReads and @louisesavidgemuses4135 (Savidge Prompts)
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Books mentioned:
📖 Liars, by Sarah Manguso*
📖 The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore
📖 We the Animals, by Justin Torres
📖 A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
📖 The Vegetarian, by Han Kang (tr. Deborah Smith)
📖 Heartstopper Volume 5, by Alice Oseman
📖 The Material, by Camille Bordas
📖 Recitatif, by Toni Morrison
📖 The Party, by Tessa Hadley
*gifted by publisher
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00:00 Liars
05:18 The God of the Woods
10:38 We the Animals
13:49 A Visit from the Goon Squad
17:42 The Vegetarian
22:26 Heartstopper Volume 5
25:01 The Material
29:21 Recitatif
33:39 The Party
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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#books #booktube #readingwrapup Recent reads (including Han Kang, Toni Morrison and Jennifer Egan)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v77mVlNGrfg/mqdefault.jpg)
![BOOK NEWS 🗞️ Big Intermezzo sales for Sally Rooney • Tilted Axis needs you! • Prize shortlists
Another month, another round of news. Some huge sales for recent releases, plus some indie outfits in need of support. Plus, a prize shortlist bonanza and tonnes of new releases.
Save Tilted Axis Press:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-tilted-axis-press
Save The Common Press:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-common-press
25% off Fitzcarraldo Editions using code AUTUMN2024 until midnight on Monday 7 October (not affiliated, just a good deal!):
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/
Booktube Prize winner announcement:
https://youtu.be/AX6eEtCRMWE?si=5nMiwsMNiBUfUkkd
Small Things Like These trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqwn5Y_Y4xs
Nobel Prize predictions:
https://youtu.be/gjHgnUKrexo?si=mSjzXboKDiS79a4R
Kindle deals:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3TVIFMVNIAEM1?ref wl_share
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Channels mentioned:
@BookTubePrize (Prize dates for your diary section)
@katiejlumsden (book bargains section)
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00:00 Book news
03:36 Prize news and dates
06:45 New book releases
11:39 Books on screen
12:48 Book bargains
14:23 Feelgood story
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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#books #booktube #booknews BOOK NEWS 🗞️ Big Intermezzo sales for Sally Rooney • Tilted Axis needs you! • Prize shortlists](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vpp_Ff5zswo/mqdefault.jpg)
![Womens Prize longlist thoughts & first line ranking
Everyones done all their Womens Prize reaction videos, so lets read the first lines of each book!
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Books mentioned:
📖 Flashlight, by Susan Choi
📖 Audition, by Katie Kitamura
📖 A Guardian and a Thief, by Megha Majumdar
📖 The Benefactors, by Wendy Erskine
📖 Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
📖 Gloria Dont Speak, by Lucy Apps
📖 Dominion, by Addie, E. Citchens
📖 Kingfisher, by Rozie Kelly
📖 A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, by Alice Evelyn Young
📖 The Others, by Sheena Kalayin
📖 The Mercy Step, by Marcia Hutchinson
📖 Paradiso 17, by Hannah Lillith Assadi
📖 Moderation, by Elaine Castillo
📖 Heart the Lover, by Lily King
📖 The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans
📖 The Best of Everything, by Kit de Waal
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00:00 Intro
02:10 xyz
08:17 xyz
15:10 xyz
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2026:
https://youtu.be/i50Tr4zRexg
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/3717542a-a44b-452b-bbc1-046ae5ec8fab
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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#books #booktube #womensprize Womens Prize longlist thoughts & first line ranking](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w9_2exEaz7Y/mqdefault.jpg)
![Womens Prize for Fiction 2024 longlist predictions 🔮
The Womens Prize for Fiction longlist is nearly here. Are you excited? BECAUSE IM EXCITED. Heres my stab at guessing the 16 books that might make it. Can I beat last years tally of getting 4 right?
Honestly, I dont think so... there are so many incredible books written by women, so many recommended reads, that it felt truly impossible to narrow it down.
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Books mentioned:
Youll have to watch and see 😉
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00:00 Intro and eligibility rules
02:51 2024 judges
03:58 Blood Ties
06:38 Hidden History
09:10 Retellings
11:06 Careering
12:33 Bodies Bodies Bodies
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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#books #booktube #womensprize Womens Prize for Fiction 2024 longlist predictions 🔮](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wuBVW93Bxxw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Huge new releases, sad Booker nominee news, and a book of human skin | This Month in Book News ✨
You said it sounded good, so I did it! Heres the first ever This Month in Book News video, covering some news in the book world, hot new book releases, prize news and dates for your diary, and some notable TV and film adaptations.
When I scripted I thought this video was going to be VERY LONG. But it was not, in fact, long at all. I do speak pretty quickly though.
*Correction:* The adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow stars Ewan McGregor, not Kenneth Branagh!
Curated Kindle deals list:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3TVIFMVNIAEM1
Huge shout out to @TheDiscoKingOfficial who features in the feelgood story. Go subscribe to his channel and watch the BookTuber quiz here: https://www.youtube.com/live/jo-KMWKMlpU
Credit to @SkillUp from whom I liberally borrowed this idea. If youre into video games, his This Week in Video Games videos are excellent, as are all his reviews.
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00:00 Whats this all about?
00:25 Book news
02:17 New releases
04:27 Recent announcements
05:29 Prize news and dates
06:38 Books on screen
07:49 Deals
08:36 Feelgood story
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
📊 Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
🎁 Amazon wishlist (books that are tricky to get in a physical bookshop in the UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2PGEEC0LPHHDA
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#books #booktube #booknews Huge new releases, sad Booker nominee news, and a book of human skin | This Month in Book News ✨](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xdnFSLnMXFU/mqdefault.jpg)