Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 56 minutes ago
With the calendar passing from one year to the next, I've been thinking about my reading goals, and bookish things I want to achieve, both in terms of my reading and this channel.
I'd love to hear from you in the comments if you have any goals of your own!
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Books mentioned:
📖 Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
📖 East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
📖 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
📖 Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
📖 A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
📖 Trumpet, by Jackie Kay
📖 Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli
📖 Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward
📖 The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
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00:00 Why set goals
01:30 Reading goals
09:07 Channel goals
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#books #booktube #readinggoals
With the calendar passing from one year to the next, I've been thinking about my reading goals, and bookish things I want to achieve, both in terms of my reading and this channel.
I'd love to hear from you in the comments if you have any goals of your own!
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Books mentioned:
📖 Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
📖 East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
📖 Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
📖 Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
📖 A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
📖 Trumpet, by Jackie Kay
📖 Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli
📖 Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward
📖 The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
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00:00 Why set goals
01:30 Reading goals
09:07 Channel goals
—
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
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#books #booktube #readinggoals
![I ranked the Booker Prize longlist from worst to best
Its time once again to rank the entire Booker longlist 🎉 Well, almost... Ive read 12 of the 13 books.
Im sharing some reflections on the longlist, its themes, and taking a look at Goodreads data before diving into a ranking of all the books.
Of course, I cant resist having a guess at what the actual shortlist will be, but if my predictions this year are anything to go by: Ill be completely wrong 😅
Booker shortlist announcement livestream (7pm BST, Tuesday 23 September):
https://www.youtube.com/live/r6VO7dkRtjU?si=cnlZEz59lZLmgnXd
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
00:00 Longlist thoughts
03:47 Goodreads shortlist
07:04 Themes
11:02 Ranking and personal shortlist
23:33 Judges shortlist prediction
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Channels mentioned:
@jenvcampbell
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Books mentioned:
📖 Universality, by Natasha Brown
📖 Audition, by Katie Kitamura
📖 Flesh, by David Szalay
📖 The Land in Winter, by Andrew Miller
📖 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
📖 Love Forms, by Claire Adams
📖 The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits
📖 The South, by Tash Aw
📖 Endling, by Maria Reva
📖 Flashlight, by Susan Choi
📖 Misinterpretation, by Ledia Xhoga
📖 One Boat, by Jonathan Buckley
📖 Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood
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![Everything I read for the Read Good Challenge 2025
Heres everything I read for this years 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 its 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.
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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 ODonnell
📖 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
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Thank you so much for watching.
📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2025:
https://youtu.be/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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![30 books Ive picked up so far in 2023 | Book haul
30 books Ive picked up in the first half of the year - hopefully some useful recommendations, and a bit of a preview of what you might see me talking about in the near future.
Two things to note:
1. Ive marked this video as including Paid Promotion because Ive featured some books from publishers, but I have not been paid to promote these. I just wanted to err on the side of caution when it comes to YouTube rules!
2. My microphone once again managed to conk out for a big chunk of the video 🤦♂️ I need to figure out how to avoid this, but for now please accept my apologies for the dip in sound quality for a huge chunk of this vid.
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00:00 Why Im doing a book haul
02:04 Books from publishers
06:28 Translated and/or LGBT+
13:41 Non-fiction and/or climate fiction
21:46 Thrillers
25:30 Sci-fi and fantasy
32:10 General fiction
40:05 Wrap-up
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Booktubers mentioned:
@SavidgeReads
@WillowTalksBooks
@KDbooks
@EricKarlAnderson
@GunpowderFictionPlot
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Books mentioned in this video:
📖 Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah
📖 Between Dog and Wolf, by Kristina Gorcheva Newberry
📖 Penance, by Eliza Clarke
📖 The Future Future, by Adam Thirlwell
📖 Time Shelter, by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
📖 The Vegetarian, by Han Kang (translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd)
📖 All the Lovers in the Night, by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Deborah Smith)
📖 Lie With Me, by Philippe Besson (translated by Molly Ringwald)
📖 Marlo, by Jay Carmichael
📖 Mothers Boy, by Patrick Gale
📖 Constructing a Nervous System, by Margot Jefferson
📖 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders
📖 Otherlands, by Thomas Halliday
📖 Migrations, by Charlotte McConaghy
📖 Emergency, by Daisy Hildyard
📖 Venomous Lumpsucker, by Ned Beauman
📖 Mouth to Mouth, by Antoine Wilson
📖 Kala, by Colin Walsh
📖 Looking Glass Sound, by Catriona Ward
📖 The Dark Net, by Benjamin Percy
📖 Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
📖 The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin
📖 Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
📖 Vagabonds, by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Lieu)
📖 This One Sky Day, by Leone Ross
📖 The People in the Trees, by Hanya Yanagihara
📖 The Human Remains of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts, by Soraya Palmer
📖 The End of Nightwork, by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
📖 If I Survive You, by Jonathan Escoffery
📖 The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan
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![Booker Prize 2025 longlist predictions 🔮
Booker season is back, and Ive got some predictions! The formula is also making a return, to help me choose which books I think will be longlisted for the prize...👨🔬
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Books mentioned:
Youll have to watch and see 😉
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Channels mentioned:
@BobTheBookerer
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00:00 Intro and eligibility
05:42 Judges
07:08 Booker math
11:15 Que Sera Sera
13:15 Births, Deaths & Marriages
16:00 Threes a Crowd
18:22 Family Strife
20:33 Squiggles
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📚 Join the Read Good Challenge 2025:
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✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
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![I read four Booker Prize books - heres what I thought
My first batch of book reviews from this years Booker Prize longlist.
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Books mentioned:
📖 Black Bag, by Luke Kennard
📖 Helen of Nowhere, by Makenna Goodman
📖 The Vivisectors, by Missouri Williams
📖 The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley
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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
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![Read Good Challenge 2024 | Reading prompts for every month of the year
Happy New Year 🥳 Im sure your reading plans are already well underway, but if youre in search of some prompts for your 2024 reading, here are some that Ill be doing this year. Feel free to join in!
Here are some resources you can use to read along with the challenge 👇
Storygraph challenge:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/184091c1-8b06-4cc9-9e7e-f8c7e24bd3ea
Instagram story image:
https://ibb.co/bdD8R2w
Printable image:
https://ibb.co/r0X7PyP
Best adapted screenplay Oscar nominees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay
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
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00:00 Intro
01:44 January
02:47 February
03:41 March
04:36 April
05:25 May
06:11 June
07:03 July
07:39 August
08:45 September
09:34 October
10:41 November
11:53 December
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✉️ Email: benreadsgood[at]gmail.com
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![Booker Prize 2024 longlist predictions 🔮
Its Booker season!!! And this time, Ive taken a vaguely scientific approach to my longlist predictions... 👨🔬
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Books mentioned:
Youll have to watch and see 😉
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00:50 Eligibility
03:13 Returning shortlistees
04:43 Judges
05:31 Booker math
08:54 Blurb Appeal
11:02 Road to Success
12:57 Extraordinary Journeys
16:54 Body-popping
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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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![2k subscribers Q&A | Part 1: Reading habits and books
Its the video youve been waiting for! Well, even if you havent been waiting, its here. I have at long last answered your questions... and heres the footage for half of them. Here I talk about my reading habits, overhyped titles, books that are precious to me, and problematic authors.
Maybe youll even be able to give me a reading recommendation based on my dream book description.
Part 2 coming soon!
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00:00 Intro
01:03 Reading habits
12:34 Books
26:55 BROADCAST INTERRUPTION
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Booktubers mentioned:
@GunpowderFictionPlot
@sniffingthesheets
@CharlieBrookReads
@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
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