Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 50 minutes ago
On 5 May 2025 it'll be announced who has won has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and and which books were the finalists. As usual, I'm having a bit of fun guessing which books we might see among the finalists.
Forgot to mention outright in the video, but Greg from @SupposedlyFun is the expert in all things Pulitzer. I hadn't watched his prediction video before doing this (otherwise I would have just copied everything he said) but I'm off to watch it now:
youtube.com/watch?v=-Pt3r8tYJ_Q
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Books mentioned:
You'll have to watch and see ๐
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00:00 Intro and eligibility rules
02:45 Frontrunners
06:10 Other contenders
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youtu.be/sl6NEuMRXF4
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#books #booktube #pulitzerprize
On 5 May 2025 it'll be announced who has won has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and and which books were the finalists. As usual, I'm having a bit of fun guessing which books we might see among the finalists.
Forgot to mention outright in the video, but Greg from @SupposedlyFun is the expert in all things Pulitzer. I hadn't watched his prediction video before doing this (otherwise I would have just copied everything he said) but I'm off to watch it now:
youtube.com/watch?v=-Pt3r8tYJ_Q
โ
Books mentioned:
You'll have to watch and see ๐
โ
00:00 Intro and eligibility rules
02:45 Frontrunners
06:10 Other contenders
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
๐ Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/benreadsgood
๐ 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 #pulitzerprize
![My reading plans for the end of the year โข End of the Year book tag โจ
Its the end of the year, which means its time for the end of the year book tag!
Consider yourself tagged if youd like to join in - either in the comments or in a video of your own!
Anticipated releases still to come in 2025:
https://youtu.be/17pkGCvJibA?si=yY8qFy5s_iD4kA3j
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Questions:
1.Are there any books youve started this year that you still need to finish?
2. Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year?
3. Is there a new release youre still waiting for?
4. What are three books you want to read before the end of the year?
5. Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year?
6. Have you already started making reading plans for next year?
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Tag started by โช@ArielBissett
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Books mentioned:
๐ The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
๐ The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
๐ Deep Cuts, by Holly Brickley
๐ The Story of a Heart, by Rachel Clarke
๐ Bear, by Julia Phillips
๐ Signs Preceding the End of the World, by Yuri Herrera (tr. Lisa Dillman)
๐ Jesus Christ Kinski, by Benjamin Myers
๐ Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
๐ Buckeye, by Patrick Ryan
๐ What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan
๐ Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney
๐ Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
๐ House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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00:00 Question 1
04:22 Question 2
07:41 Question 3
08:48 Question 4
10:53 Question 5
12:45 Question 6
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https://youtu.be/sl6NEuMRXF4
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/b9e80f78-e8d0-464e-b460-c2e1034dc707
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![Booker Prize shortlist reaction
This was going to be a community post, but I decided to do a quick video with my thoughts on the shortlist, and my experience going to the shortlist announcement event.
Huge thanks to @TheBookerPrizes for the invitation!
Booker shortlist announcement livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/r6VO7dkRtjU?si=cnlZEz59lZLmgnXd
My Booker longlist ranking:
https://youtu.be/E11wIRq2vVA?si=r8UI9Ac7qnHFIdC6
My review videos:
https://youtu.be/2glEI7tmU2I?si=CePeihdRdnaCGlH0
https://youtu.be/KU_9k0Dmf74?si=oCBVC71XH3KoEBBn
https://youtu.be/1plSv_x3NOI?si=u-lOh8-dOEvgGjTw
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Channels mentioned:
@EricKarlAnderson
@SavidgeReads
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Shortlisted books mentioned:
๐ Audition, by Katie Kitamura
๐ Flesh, by David Szalay
๐ The Land in Winter, by Andrew Miller
๐ The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
๐ The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits
๐ Flashlight, by Susan Choi
Other books mentioned:
๐ Endling, by Maria Reva
๐ Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood
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Thank you so much for watching.
๐ Join the Read Good Challenge 2025:
https://youtu.be/sl6NEuMRXF4
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/b9e80f78-e8d0-464e-b460-c2e1034dc707
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![Reviewing the Booker Prize 2023 (spoiler-free) | Part 3
My third reading wrap up from the Booker Prize longlist. Four book reviews this time around, three that I liked, and one that sadly didnt quite work for me.
You dont need to have watched the parts in order before watching this, but Ive linked them below if you havent seen them yet.
Part 1: https://youtu.be/nx2caL3ekGM
Part 2: https://youtu.be/AW5O3gq61g0
Part 3: This video
Part 4: https://youtu.be/223d6RZClVE
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Books mentioned
๐ Study for Obedience, by Sarah Bernstein
๐ The House of Doors, by Tan Twan Eng
๐ The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray
๐ In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
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00:00 Intro
00:45 Study for Obedience
04:06 The House of Doors
07:54 The Bee Sting
11:48 In Ascension
16:48 Final thoughts
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