Booker Prize 2025 longlist reaction

We finally have the Booker Prize longlist for 2025! Decided to do both a live reaction, plus a measured take, and a little book shopping in-between.

One huge correction: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is published by Hamish Hamilton, not Huchinson Heinemann. Got my HHs mixed up! Doesn't change the formula outcome, but it does impact my point about the publishers being the same as last year.

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00:00 Live reaction
08:02 Book shopping
09:48 My thoughts
12:07 The formula strikes again
15:49 Rundown of nominated books

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Books mentioned:
📖 Universality, by Natasha Brown
📖 Audition, by Katie Kitamura
📖 Flesh, by David Szalay
📖 The Land in Winter, by Andrew Miller
📖 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai
📖 Love Forms, by Claire Adams
📖 The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits
📖 The South, by Tash Aw
📖 Endling, by Maria Reva
📖 Flashlight, by Susan Choi
📖 Misinterpretation, by Ledia Xhoga
📖 One Boat, by Jonathan Buckley
📖 Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood

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