Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 17 minutes ago

---

Here's everything I read for this year's Read Good Challenge... and unfortunately it looks like I might fail!

If you participated in the challenge this year, please let me know your feedback using this survey:
https://forms.gle/ABerM8fkvrzQKfnD7

The 2026 edition of the challenge will be coming soon.

One correction (kinda): The Bonfire of the Vanities was a film, but it's only famous for being terrible. It was based on a critically-acclaimed book by Tom Wolfe. But neither the film nor the book are based on the actual events of what happened in 15th century Florence.

—

Books mentioned:
📖 The Gathering, by Anne Enright
📖 Three Fires, by Denise Mina
📖 Rizzio, by Denise Mina
📖 Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre
📖 Nesting, by Roisin O'Donnell
📖 Night Sky With Exit Wounds, by Ocean Vuong
📖 Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
📖 Hard by a Great Forest, by Leo Vardiashvili
📖 On The Calculation of Volume, by Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara Haveland)
📖 Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
📖 Vigil, by George Saunders
📖 The Imagined Life, by Andrew Porter
📖 We Live Here Now, by C.D. Rose
📖 The Last Act of Love, by Cathy Rentzenbrink
📖 Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
📖 Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney

—

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
📊 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

—

#books #booktube #readingchallenge