Sant Reads | lazy predictions & crazy reactions to the 2021 Booker Prize Longlist @SantReads | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
As Moira Rose rightly said, my favourite season is 'award season' and here we are with the biggest and baddest literary prizes' longlist. I made a few terrible predictions and reacted interestingly to the longlist.

★ the longlist of the #2021BookerPrize and links ★

-- A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam: goodreads.com/book/show/55873262-a-passage-north
-- Second Place, Rachel Cusk: goodreads.com/book/show/54785558-second-place
-- The Promise, Damon Galgut: goodreads.com/book/show/54633172-the-promise
-- The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris : goodreads.com/book/show/54404602-the-sweetness-of-water
-- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro : goodreads.com/book/show/54120408-klara-and-the-sun
-- An Island, Karen Jennings : goodreads.com/book/show/53984799-an-island
-- A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson : goodreads.com/book/show/53328334-a-town-called-solace
-- No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood : goodreads.com/book/show/53733106-no-one-is-talking-about-this
-- The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed : goodreads.com/book/show/55592200-the-fortune-men
-- Bewilderment, Richard Powers : goodreads.com/book/show/57342765-bewilderment
-- China Room, Sunjeev Sahota : goodreads.com/book/show/55994371-china-room
-- Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead : goodreads.com/book/show/54976986-great-circle
-- Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford : goodreads.com/book/show/55711743-light-perpetual

Psst, my birthday is in a month (august 9). Link to buy me books (especially these books on the longlist that I cannot afford) if you wanna: bit.ly/smritiswishlist
or you can buy me a coffee (online) - basically just support me by straight up giving me money. it's a thing us creative folks have to do: buymeacoffee.com/santreads

★ timestamps ★
00:00 intro, my lazy predictions & my reasoning
03:25 reaction to the list
04:03 the longlist - detailed reaction & thoughts
14:47 general thoughts on the list & my predictions & way forward
16:42 byeeeee and a question

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