Posts tagged ‘books’

Sep 20

2025 Booker Longlist: The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Our panel’s final book is The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller. Keep reading to see our reviews and final ranking of all Booker longlist nominees.

Sep 18

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2025 Booker Longlist The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Next up for our panel is The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by prior award winner Kiran Desai. Given the size of the novel, only two of our panelists managed to read this novel before the shortlist announcement. Keep reading to see what our panel had to say about this book.

Sep 15

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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…

Sep 13

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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?

Sep 11

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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?

Sep 8

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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?

Sep 5

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2025 Booker Longlist: Universality by Natasha Brown

Next up for our panel is Natasha Brown’s Universality. Four of our panelists read the book, our fifth panelist attempted and abandoned it.

Sep 3

2025 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.

Aug 29

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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?

Aug 25

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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.

Book Worm’s rating system

★ Bah I really hated this would not even pass this to my worst enemy
★★ I really didn't like this but would consider giving it to my worst enemy for vengeful purposes
★★★ this was an enjoyable way to pass the time not great not horrendous
★★★★ really enjoyed this book there was something about it that made me think
★★★★★ wow I loved this book I am now out recommending it to all my friends, will keep to re read even though I have banned re reads