Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Here are my thoughts on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2023 result, which was somehow both shocking and not shocking at the same time!
@SupposedlyFun has done a much more detailed reaction video here, if you want to dive deeper:
youtu.be/OabcFdhyr9I
Here's the video @GemofBooks did that predicted The Immortal King Rao for the Women's Prize (got to be worth at least half a point, Gem!):
youtu.be/p6QGPiq8tGY
The Hanya's Boys article:
vulture.com/article/hanya-yanagihara-review.html
Mona Chalabi's instagram account:
instagram.com/monachalabi
My Pulitzer predictions video (where I talk more about Trust and Demon Copperhead):
youtu.be/n9XN36ViJ28
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00:00 My reaction
01:36 Is Hernan Diaz a controversial pick?
03:56 The runner up
05:11 Mona Chalabi is awesome
05:48 Juicy goss from other categories
08:33 Can Demon win 'The Big Four'?
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#booktube #pulitzer #reading
Here are my thoughts on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2023 result, which was somehow both shocking and not shocking at the same time!
@SupposedlyFun has done a much more detailed reaction video here, if you want to dive deeper:
youtu.be/OabcFdhyr9I
Here's the video @GemofBooks did that predicted The Immortal King Rao for the Women's Prize (got to be worth at least half a point, Gem!):
youtu.be/p6QGPiq8tGY
The Hanya's Boys article:
vulture.com/article/hanya-yanagihara-review.html
Mona Chalabi's instagram account:
instagram.com/monachalabi
My Pulitzer predictions video (where I talk more about Trust and Demon Copperhead):
youtu.be/n9XN36ViJ28
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If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up, and you can subscribe to my channel to see more of my content.
✉️ Get in touch: benreadsgood@gmail.com
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00:00 My reaction
01:36 Is Hernan Diaz a controversial pick?
03:56 The runner up
05:11 Mona Chalabi is awesome
05:48 Juicy goss from other categories
08:33 Can Demon win 'The Big Four'?
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#booktube #pulitzer #reading
![Books I read in November | Reading wrap-up
Last reading wrap-up of the year, with 7 books to tell you about. Most of them are quick reads as Ive been poorly with a cold lately (still trying to shift it!) but some really great reads in here that Id heartily recommend.
Heres my full review of Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me:
https://youtu.be/ctAUT75AhzY
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Books mentioned in this video:
📖 Clear, by Carys Davies (released in January, thank you to Granta for the eARC)
📖 The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears
📖 Heartstopper Volume 4, by Alice Oseman
📖 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, by Satoshi Yagisawa (translated from Japanese by Eric Ozawa)
📖 Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
📖 Upgrade, by Blake Crouch
📖 Aliss at the Fire, by Jon Fosse (translated from Norwegian by Damion Searls)
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00:00 Intro
01:15 Clear
03:20 The Woman in Me
03:56 Heartstopper Volume 4
06:00 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
08:44 Flowers for Algernon
11:33 Upgrade
13:45 Aliss at the Fire
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![Predicting the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 🔮
On 6 May 2024 well find out (completely out of the blue!) which book has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and and which books were the finalists. Its a shot in the dark to predict, but last year I got it right. I dont expect to repeat that, but lets give it a go!
Greg from @SupposedlyFun‘s prediction video:
https://youtu.be/zrpP6XEQOlQ?si=0qlMe2bhbC0IQ3Ky
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Books mentioned:
Youll have to watch and see 😉
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00:00 Intro and eligibility rules
02:48 Frontrunners
04:57 Wildcards
08:12 A Recent Favourite
09:50 The One (I Hope) That Got Away...
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![My reading year so far • Mid-year book freakout tag
Always fun to check in on the reading year so far, so heres the mid-year book freakout tag!
Booktubers tagged:
@LydiaLostthePlot
@rororeads
@ToBeBlackandLoved
Booktubers running Savidge Prompts:
@SavidgeReads
@louisesavidgemuses4135
See more about the Read Good Challenge (not the Good Read Challenge like I said in the video lol):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4eJcfdG8U
And join the Storygraph challenge here:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/184091c1-8b06-4cc9-9e7e-f8c7e24bd3ea
The tag originator, IsThatChami, is no longer on YouTube.
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Questions:
1. Best book you’ve read so far
2. Best sequel youve read so far
3. New release you havent read yet, but want to
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year
5. Biggest disappointment
6. Biggest surprise
7. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)
8. Newest fictional crush
9. Newest favourite character
10. Book that made you cry (or saddest book youve read)
11. Book that made you happy
12. Favourite book to film adaptation you saw this year
13. Favourite video you have made so far in this year
14. Most beautiful book youve bought so far this year (or received)
15. Books do you need to read by the end of the year
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![Reading wrap-up • Books I read in May
Better late than never - 5 book reviews from what I read in May.
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Books mentioned:
📖 Son of Nobody, by Yann Martel
📖 My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, by Deborah Levy
📖 The Director, by Daniel Kehlmann (tr. Ross Benjamin)
📖 As If, by Isabel Waidner
📖 The Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth Strout
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00:00 Son of Nobody
04:17 My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
06:09 The Director
09:26 As If
12:05 The Things We Never Say*
*gifted by the publisher
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![Cuddy by Benjamin Myers is extraordinary | Spoiler-free book review 📖
Channelling my inner @rororeads to bring you a standalone review of this absolutely wondrous book: Cuddy, by Benjamin Myers.
I highly, highly recommend reading this book. Dont be intimidated by the start: its a rich and rewarding experience that is greater than the sum of its parts. A true gem that probably should have been nominated for the Booker Prize.
I dont consider anything in this review a spoiler, so I’ve marked it ‘spoiler-free’. But Im not sure of peoples tolerance for plot summaries so please tread carefully!
This video is kindly sponsored by the word arc which I think I use about 3000 times 🙃
For more ficton book recommendations, subscribe today!
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![Book bans and a STACKED month of new books (Tokarczuk, Rooney, Powers) • This Month in Book News ✨
Happy start-of-autumn month! Its September and heres the book news, including some book ban-related developments, an absurd number of hot new releases (including Sally Rooney, Olga Tokarczuk, Richard Powers, and more) and all the usual bits and bobs.
The word of the month, apparently, is particularly. Please dont count how many times I say it 😅
Bookloop by Bookshop.org:
https://bookshop.zeercle.com/
Curated Kindle deals list:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3TVIFMVNIAEM1
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00:00 Book news
03:43 Prize news and dates
05:19 New book releases
13:04 Deals
13:35 Books on screen
14:08 Feelgood story
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#books #booktube #booknews Book bans and a STACKED month of new books (Tokarczuk, Rooney, Powers) • This Month in Book News ✨](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gXO5fZpBOdY/mqdefault.jpg)
![A reading list for nonfiction November
Some books Im hoping to read for nonfiction November.
Note: I was way off thinking Flanagan won the Booker in 2007. It was 2013!
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Books mentioned:
📖 The Story of a Heart, by Rachel Clarke
📖 Raising Hare, by Chloe Dalton
📖 Question 7, by Richard Flanagan
📖 Challenger, by Adam Higginbotham
📖 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli (tr. Simon Carnell and Erica Segre)
📖 Stay True, by Hua Hsu
📖 Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
📖 Constructing a Nervous System, by Margo Jefferson
📖 This House of Grief, by Helen Garner
📖 The Last Act of Love, by Cathy Rentzenbrink
📖 Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
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📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2025:
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#books #booktube #nonfiction A reading list for nonfiction November](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gZu_FgZL148/mqdefault.jpg)
![Book prize predictions • Goldsmiths Prize and Nobel Prize
You know I love a prize prediction video, so heres another couple to throw in the mix!
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlist is looking for fiction at its most novel and its shortlist will be announced on 2 October.
The Nobel is awarded for a body of work, and well find out this years recipient on 10 October.
If youd like some more informed Nobel predictions, check out @TheDiscoKingOfficials video here:
https://youtu.be/bethsmnLKCU?si=t0IUmiWxHptv0uhj
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00:00 Goldsmiths Prize
05:54 Nobel Prize
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#books #booktube #bookprizes Book prize predictions • Goldsmiths Prize and Nobel Prize](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gjHgnUKrexo/mqdefault.jpg)
![5 dystopian novels (ranked by plausibility)
Dystopian books? Apocalyptic books? Post-apocalypic books? Whatever you call them, these 5 novels play out the end of the world and how that might look. I read and ranked these books, and judged how realistic their depiction of the downfall of society felt to me. And a few are definitely recommend reading.
Funnily enough, I read all of these mostly by chance recently. So this also serves as a bit of a reading wrap-up.
I didnt mention this in the video, by @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf did a great video comparing the book and movie of The End We Start From, which you can check out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaEaOSiYtmo
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Books mentioned:
📖 Delphi, by Clare Pollard
📖 Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam
📖 The Doloriad, by Missouri Williams
📖 The End We Start From, by Megan Hunter
📖 Jungle House, by Julianne Pachico
📖 Severance, by Ling Ma
📖 Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel
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00:00 Why is there so much apocalyptic fiction?
02:37 5th place
05:49 4th place
08:38 3rd place
10:55 2nd place
13:36 1st place
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#books #booktube #dystopianbooks 5 dystopian novels (ranked by plausibility)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hA27Cz9xf48/mqdefault.jpg)
![Books I read in February • Reading wrap-up
Five book reviews for February! Perhaps a bit more of a mixed bag than last month though, including a book that actively annoyed me.
Look out for the upcoming 10k giveaway on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benreadsgood/
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Creators mentioned:
@FreshlyReadBooks (TBR spin)
@SavidgeReads and @louisesavidgemuses4135 (Savidge Prompts)
@stalkingkafka
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Books mentioned:
📖 Juice, by Tim Winton
📖 Three Fires, by Denise Mina
📖 The List of Suspicious Things, by Jenni Godfrey
📖 Dengue Boy, by Michel Nieva (tr. Rahul Bery)
📖 The Sea, by John Banville
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00:00 10k subs plans
01:24 Juice
05:35 Three Fires
08:51 The List of Suspicious Things
12:34 Dengue Boy
16:09 The Sea
18:50 Goals and challenges
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