Booker Longlist/Shortlist 2025

Oct 1: Library has the rest of our lives on order = hold placed

           the loneliness of.... is on holdshelf waiting for me to pick up! 

 

Sept 24 - Shortlist announced:

    Flesh
    The Land in Winter
    The Rest of Our Lives
    Audition
    The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny over 600 pages of stuff I don't want to read!
    Flashlight

 

Sigh....One I inspected and rejected without reading (Flesh). One I found boring (Audition). One I probably won't see til January (The Rest of Our Lives). Two I've placed holds on (The Land... and The Loneliness of,,,).

Which leaves Flashlight which I liked.

 

Longlist thoughts nefore Sept 24:

This list is more interesting to me than some recent longlists. I was actually looking at several of these before the list was announced. 

Status as of 8/22 (will update as I read): 

(*updates 9/9) (update $9/11)

read and liked - 3-$4

read and was lukewarm - 2 

holds placed - 5 - *4

currently reading - *1 $0

currently unavailable - 1 * now on order in Encore System

decided not to read - 2

As of now (8/22) I can get all but one at my local libraries (and they will probably order it soon). Will one of the two that I have already decided not to read win it all? Or perhaps it will be one of the ones I'm lukewarm about? 

Love Forms by Claire Adam -- read (8/2) but don't think it's prize caliber

The South by Tash Aw - read (7/21) liked it

Universality by Natasha Brown - read it (8/16), liked it

One Boat by Jonathan Buckley - hold placed

  

Flashlight by Susan Choi - ("in transit" for me)  picked up 9/3, *started reading 9/9, $Finished it, liked it

 

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai - hold placed - ready for pickup Oct 1

 

Audition by Katie Kitamura - read (4/20) Yawn. I think I've read too much Kitamura. 

 

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits - sounds interesting but my libraries don't have it. Looks like the USA ed won't be published until January 2026; *9/9 on order in Encore . Yay@ Hod placed at Lion Oct 1

 

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller - hold placed

 
Endling by Maria Reva - read (7/5)  liked this one

Flesh by David Szalay - checked it out from library,  but have decided not to read it.

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood - not at all interested in this.

Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga - hold placed