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Normally I’m not super into the booker picks. I love seeing the list each year but rarely want to read very many of the books. I’m very intrigued by 11 of them this year! I’ve got lots of library holds and am about to start my first one!

I love these Booker reaction videos. Thanks you for joining the Booker party.

No Praiseworthy! I hope Wright has another great one in her. Hoping James wins.

You really should read Orbital; I think you're being misled by the blurb. It's just over 200 pages and is filled with beautifully written passages. She really fleshes out the six characters with a sparse number of words as they adapt to living in space focus on their new jobs and reflect on their lives back on Earth. It's profound and silly at times, happy and sad, and filled with exquisite, lush writing. I really think that it's going to make the short list. Hard to imagine anyone not enjoying this book.

No Praiseworthy! I'm just sitting here...eating my hat...and disappointed in the judges decisions! I've read 4 on the list - My Friends is my favourite. James is great. Orbital was not for me and I love a Literary SciFi. Stoneyard Devotional is good but it's not even Charlotte Wood's best novel let alone the best coming out of Australia, sigh. I liked There There, it was really cleverly brought together, maybe I'll read Wandering Stars. I have the others already reserved at the library including Held, I read her Fugitive Pieces years ago, and thought it was excellent. I hope Held is as good. Anyway Happy Reading 🙂

Oh my gosh. Thank you for your video and making me laugh too. After all, goats are funny!

I think Vivi's decision to stay was for the best, and also makes the most sense given what she is like. I think that the time in drum island was very important for her, there she saw not only a Kingdom that had a bad ruler, but also that was abandoned by their ruler, and the effect that had on the Kingdom and its people. Meanwhile Alabasta has just been through a civil war, and while the fire of the conflict has been put out by the rain that fell on that day, smoldering embers would remain. While circumstances aren't the exact same, Vivi leaving her country could be seen as her abandoning them when they need her most, and be no better than Wapol, she recognized that her people needed her and chose to dedicate herself to that as a monarch, or in this case heir, should. Her farewell was incredibly emotional, and years later still gets tears out of me, but I have the greatest respect for her and the decisions she made.

Moby Dick is one of my If at First books. What I did read I thought was really well written, but the overwhelming whale facts wore me out. Don Quixote is another.If at First That one, I'm going to try again shortly.

I’m excited about this list too! So happy to see James, Wandering Stars, Orbital and Held. I guahed about all four of these when I read them. (Shelly, start with There, There because otherwise Wandering Stars is spoilery.) Several books are already on my library holds list-Wild Houses, My Friends, Safekeep and This Strange Eventful History. Messud’s novel is a whole lot longer than Held, btw. Also, Held is written in a fragmented circuitous style, which I am guessing is quite different from Messud’s prose style. I’m quite curious about Headshot, even though boxing would not normally attract my interest. We shall see!

My best girlfriend and I are planning to read all the long listed books and hopefully before the short list is announced. We have both read James and loved it. We woke up early to FaceTime when the list was released and then sat on FaceTime buying all the books hahahah. I have now spent most of the day watching booker list videos-book nerds unite!!!!!! And we are just as excited as you-thank you for all these great video’s Shelly!!!!!

Powers and Kushner books not out until September. Happy to start in on this list, and my local library is only missing one on the list of already published books. Probably won’t read Headshot though, not interested in boxing which I find to be an accepted form of physical violence, so not for me. I plan on reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and There There before reading Everett and Orange on this list. I’ve read Overstory but not Bewilderment by Powers. Some people say Bewilderment is better and more of an intimate novel as it is told in the first person narrative. Intriguing list…thank you for your excited overview of this list! Happy reading.

Shelly you need to read safekeep so good xx

Looking forward to checking a few of these titles out of my library! I just read James and sobbed my eyes out. I’m hoping it at least gets shortlisted!

OK I can never look at Wild Houses again without laughing at the goat eyes!! It's on a 3 week wait on my Libby!

It's fun to watch you get so excited! Hope you find some more favorites!!

Perdido Street Station was amazing, and not difficult at all! Beautiful book.

Yes, The Kitchen House! I just finished the sequel, called Glory Over Everything, and it was very good too.

I get most of my books from library sales!

I have been wanting to read The Kitchen House and Life after Life.

Hi :) New subscriber. I would like to recommend some books with gorgeous illustrations and beautiful stories behind them. Library Bus, If You See A Bluebird, and A Sky-Blue Bench all by Bahram Rahman. These Olive trees by Aya Ghanameh and Homeland My Fathers dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck.

I would like to add this book is called ' Giovanni's Room. ' Giovanni is the focus of the book, and his room is for David's sexual pleasure, and ultimately and symbolically his death cell.

I have seen many people praise this gay novel, and it has taken years to do so. In my opinion it is also about how bisexuality can sometimes be extremely destructive. I would like more concentration on Giovanni. who is gay and why he is executed. To satisfy readers - especially in the 1950's - that a gay person must either be killed, or commits suicide or becomes ' straight. ' I am a gay man and look upon this book with very mixed feelings.

Sometimes it is good to break the rules! I have Home Fire on my shelves. Enjoy your reading.

What a lovely haul. I wish I had your restraint with the only buying as many books as you read. Maybe I should try it one month (ha, I couldn’t do longer!) I’m glad you treated yourself. Especially to Life After Life and Home Fire (the US edition is stunning) as they’re both brilliant.

You, not unlike myself, assume getting equates knowing, while getting and, not knowing resumes.

News of the World is great, but The Kitchen House was AMAZING! I highly recommend its sequel as well, Glory Over Everything!!

I watched the miniseries Life After Life on Kanopy, a streaming service provided by my library. Check to see if your library offers it. It was very good and made me want to read the book, which I did.

I'm on a hunt for a used copy of Life After Life! I'll have to check my library store the next time I'm there!

It Glaswegian pronounced with the same ending as Norwegian.

Haha girl I feel you on this trend! 😂😂💙💙

One additional illustrator I have to recommend is Barbara Cooney (specifically her book “Island Boy”). 💙💙

Virginia Lee Burton is my absolute favorite 💕💕💕

In my experience, when I impose absolutes on myself, I feel deprived and end up breaking the rule. Then I feel bad about myself for that. Perhaps some middle ground?

Love The Weight of Ink. I've had Life After Life and the sequel on my shelves forever and haven't read them. I should rectify that but now I've added a couple of more titles to my TBR thanks to your haul, so who knows when I'll get around to them 🤪

The Weight of Ink is so good! It's one of my favorite reads of last year.

"Life after Life" is an amazing book. The opening scene is among the best ever. Highly recommended. Looks like a wonderful Six-dollar Steve Stack.

I loved The Weight of Ink. It is a slow read but so good! The Kitchen house is wonderful also. You will like it. I also loved News of the World. You will like this one also. Great haul!

Sometimes, you need to break a few rules. Good for you!!

So I’m new to booktube. I love your style of presenting each book. I have a question though: (and I’m generally curious not picking on you), is it possible to note language & sexual content of the book you are talking about? You know like a movie rating. Some of the books you pick sound really good, but rarely can I find a book review that will talk about that content. Thanks.

Nice haul! Life After Life was my favorite of the books I read in 2013, and I liked News of the World too (the book is better than the movie, IMO). Thanks for introducing me to The Kitchen House. Sounds like something I'd enjoy.

I preferred the movie of News of the World over the book, because Tom Hanks of course!

Read 3 of the "new" books & after you read "News of the World" check out the Tom Hanks movie of the same name. I loved the Great Dime Shootout part.

I have at least 4 of those bought secondhand too, lol. If only I could get through my library loans quicker, I'd start reading them

Out of those...I've only read Life after Life and I really loved that one. I put several of your choices on my TBR list for the libary. In the past week I finished "Matrix" by Lauren Groff and "The Dutch House" by Anne Patchett...both 4 stars for me... I've started "The Good Lord Bird" by James McBride and I'm liking it so far. I'm hoping to get "Train Dreams" from the library soon.. but thinking of reading "The Nickel Boys' by Colson Whitehead very soon too... also want to read something fun and light in the next couple of weeks...

Bravo Shelly!

Shelly the Rebel, shopping book sales dressed in a chrome-studded leather jacket, I imagine. Looks like a good haul. As for my own reading, I just finished rereading a science fiction book I last read about forty years ago - _Time and Again_ (1951) by Clifford D. Simak. In 7990, Asher Sutton returns to Earth after being dead for twenty years, in a nonfunctioning, leaky spacecraft, and he plans to write a revelatory book that will impact the entire galaxy. Time travelers from his future are out to stop him. I had forgotten so much about this story, and I’m glad I reread it.

News of the world is fabulous. Also is Simon the Peddler. I think she writes about that period..the end of the civil war. She has a number of other books, i would like to read. I also like Kate Atkinsons work.

Fun haul! Library sales are the best, aren't they? The Weight of Ink sounds really good! I'm trying to work up the gumption to read Cloud Cuckoo Land or Hamnet - both are Alice recs. I suspect that I'll continue my reading for entertainment only with more urban fantasy and historical mysteries - Ilona Andrews and Deanna Raybourn. I'm currently reading a very good mystery by Jan Burke called Bloodlines from 2005. I recommend it whenever you get in the mood for a mystery. Thank you for sharing your wild rule breaking! 😂

Beautiful!!!🎉

LIfe after Life is good. Added 2 of the others to my TBR.