2025 Booker Longlist: The Rest of our Lives by Ben Markovits
Book 11 is The Rest of our Lives by Ben Markovits. Here are our reviews…
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2025 Booker Longlist: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Seacraper is next for our panel as we move into the home stretch. So what did our panel think of the book?
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2025 Booker Longlist: Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
Next up for our panel is the second of two debut novels that made the list this year. Four of our panelists read this book. So what did our panel think of the book?
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2025 Booker Longlist: Endling by Maria Reva
Book number seven for our panel is one of the few debut novels that made the list this year. So what did our panel think of the book?
Read more2025 Booker Longlist: The South by Tash Aw
Next up for our panel is Tash Aw’s novel, The South. Four of our panelists read this book and our final panelist is making her way through the book (post will be updated once she had finished). Once again we have some mixed reviews.
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2025 Booker Longlist: Flashlight by Susan Choi
Next up for our panel is Susan Choi’s Flashlight. All five panelists read this book and we were pretty split in our reviews. Which reviewer do you side with?
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2025 Booker Longlist: One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
Next up for our panel is One Boat by Jonathan Buckley. Four of our panelists finished and reviewed the book, one abandoned it. Here are our reviews.
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2025 Booker Longlist: Audition by Katie Kitamura
Our panel’s first longlist nominee is Audition by Katie Kitamura. Four of our panelists read this book, one panelist couldn’t finish it. Here are our panelists’ reviews…
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Audition by Katie Kitamura
Life has been hectic so the blog has been slow/dormant for a few months. Despite my silence, I’ve been reading a decent amount and trying to go into Booker season with more books under my belt. Audition has been getting some very mixed reviews and I know quite a few people who hated it and abandoned it. Keep reading for my review. Will this make my prediction list for this year’s Booker longlist?
Read moreBooker shortlist 2024: Held by Anne Michaels
Apologies for rushing through these last three posts but time got away from me and I wanted to post this last one before our predictions post (which I will also post tonigh). Our panel had somewhat mixed reviews for Held. You can read our short reviews here: Held. The novel made it onto 3 of our predictions lists with Nicole, Tracy, and Anita predicting it. The Booker judges had this to say about the book…
‘The first few pages of this brief kaleidoscopic novel from the author of Fugitive Pieces may seem forbidding, yet every member of the judging panel was transported by this book. Michaels, a poet, is utterly uncompromising in her vision and execution. She is writing about war, trauma, science, faith and above all love and human connection; her canvas is a century of busy history, but she connects the fragments of her story through theme and image rather than character and chronology, intense moments surrounded by great gaps of space and time. Appropriately for a novel about consciousness, it seems to alter and expand your state of mind. Reading it is a unique experience.’
What does our panel think of the odds of this book being this year’s winner? Keep reading to find out
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