2025 August | The Reader's Room
1 post published by jenp27 during August 2025| The Reader's Room
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…| The Reader's Room
It’s out! The Booker longlist was released today at 2pm BST. How did our panel do with their predictions? Here are the thirteen books that made the list.| The Reader's Room
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 …| The Reader's Room
7 posts published by jenp27 during September 2024| The Reader's Room
Next up for our panel is James by Percival Everett. Everett is no stranger to book awards, having won over 15 and been listed for many others including a Booker shortlist nomination for his novel T…| The Reader's Room
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 […]| The Reader's Room
Those of you who have followed the blog for a while already know that Murakami is one of my favorite authors so it’s probably no surprise that I picked a Murakami novel as my first read of the year. 2024 was less than stellar for me from a reading perspective. Work burnout and life stress […]| The Reader's Room
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. Nicole: I loved James – Everett is deserving, James is […]| The Reader's Room
Apologies for rushing through these last three posts but time got away from me and I wanted to post this last one before our predictions post (which I will also post tonigh). Our panel had somewhat mixed reviews for Held. You can read our short reviews here: Held. The novel made it onto 3 of […]| The Reader's Room
The verdict was also unanimous on this book: Our whole panel loved it. You can read our short reviews here: Stone Yard Devotional. The Booker judges had this to say about the book… ‘Sometimes a visitor becomes a resident, and a temporary retreat becomes permanent. This happens to the narrator in Stone Yard Devotional – a woman […]| The Reader's Room
Our panel reviewed the Safekeep (you can read our reviews here) favorably and it made it onto 3 of our predictions lists – Nicole, Tracy, and Lisa called it. The Booker judges had this to say about the book ‘Set in the early 1960s in the Netherlands in an isolated house, The Safekeep draws us into a […]| The Reader's Room
Our panel was very mixed on this book and so is the literary community. You can read our short reviews here: Creation Lake. The novel made it onto 2 of our predictions lists (Jen and Lisa correctly predicted it). The Booker judges had this to say about the book… ‘Sadie Smith – not her real […]| The Reader's Room
As the announcement for the Booker prize draws closer, our panel is taking another look at the shortlist and sharing our thoughts on all 6 books. First up is James by Percival Everett. What does ou…| The Reader's Room
The time has come for our shortlist predictions. We’ve spent the last few months reading all the longlist books and rating the nominees. Keep reading to see which books topped our collective list a…| The Reader's Room
Every year when our panel reads the longlist, we rate each book on several categories including writing, originality, plot development, character development, and enjoyment. This year each of our p…| The Reader's Room
