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?
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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.
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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2025 Booker Prize Longlist Predictions
Once again Booker has rolled around. Every year our panel comes together to read and review all the booker nominees and to predict the winners. This year’s longlist will be announced on July 29. Every year we try and most years we fail spectacularly to get more than 3 correct predictions each. Will we have better luck this year? Keep reading to find out who we all selected and let us know what you think.
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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 2024 Winner predictions
It’s time for our panel to pick our winner. Find out which book our panelists think will win the prize this year. The prize will be announced tomorrow (and thus the reason for why I pushed out the last three posts in the same day.
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