Friday, August 22, 2025

Booker Longlist 2025

This list is more interesting to me than some recent longlists. I was actually interested in several of these before the list was announced. 
Status as of 8/22 (will update as I read): 
 
read and liked - 3
read and was lukewarm - 2 
holds placed - 5
currently unavailable - 1 
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) 
 
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai - hold placed
 
Audition by Katie Kitamura - read (4/20) Yawn. I think I've read too much Kitamura. 
 
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits - sound interesting but my libraries don't have it
 
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

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