The only Booker longlist 2024 recap you will ever need

[@spexi513]

😍😍😍 not the dream library ladder 📕🪱💚

[@GuiltyFeat]

Every day, I take a ride and pretend I'm Belle.

[@Shellyish]

Thank you so much for this, Daniel! I’m so curious about Enlightenment! Thank you again.

[@GuiltyFeat]

I loved it and I think, as a self-confessed romantic, that you might also.

[@Shellyish]

@@GuiltyFeat You never fail to surprise me in that I think we spend more time on each other’s channel than either of us comment.

[@GuiltyFeat]

@Shellyish ready to collab when you are!

[@Shellyish]

@@GuiltyFeat don’t tempt me!

[@TheLeniverse]

I too find this year's list so much more appealing this year! It's also the first time I've actually read two books in advance of the list. James and Orbital. Regarding Orbital, it is dense and virtually plotless so it takes a surprisingly long time to tead for it's size. I really liked it though! James, in contrast, is a really fast read (and I really liked that too). I'm looking forward to reading most of this list.

[@GuiltyFeat]

Read most of James yesterday. Will finish it tonight. Looking forward to Orbital. Thanks!

[@seamusgaelic6447]

Your take on author names had me rolling. It's somewhat true how a really unique name will increase my interest in reading a book. I think my prime example of that is Ottessa Moshfegh.

[@GuiltyFeat]

Author names are super important.

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

“ i’d like the fact that it was short and it made the long list”. That made me giggle and “Irish squared“. There’s so much humor in your videos. I have to watch them twice. Having said that, I haven’t had much luck with lists. Maybe too much MFA for me.😊 Deliciously Dutch and Jewish is up my street so I will look out for that book. Shalom and aloha brother.

[@GuiltyFeat]

I'm just having fun. Glad you are too! Aloha and shalom dear Marilyn Maya.

[@kl-ge9bg]

Love your take on the authors' names. 🤣Makes me feel less guilty for (at least occasionally) judging books by their covers.

[@GuiltyFeat]

Covers, author names, page count, Twitter following - it's all fair game these days when it comes to deciding whether or not you want to read a book.

[@MarcNash]

Currently reading "Wild Houses". You are absolutely right, it reads like a book written by somebody called Colin. I have no idea what it's doing on the long list.

[@GuiltyFeat]

Colin is my middle name and even I have to acknowledge the wisdom of this.

[@saintdonoghue]

Wonderful video - but I'm not sure about that grandiose title! I mean, Jack Edwards got his longlist books directly from the Booker Committee - and he's (marginally) cuter than you are!

[@GuiltyFeat]

In the cutthroat world of Booker longlist 2024 reaction videos, you have to go big or go home. I laugh in the face of a box of longlist books direct from the Booker Committee... ha ha... ha!

[@BookishTexan]

Oh no! If your judging books by the voting name of the author I’m in trouble.

[@GuiltyFeat]

Your author name is delightfully alliterative. I predict big things!

[@kimswhims8435]

My Friends is my favourite of the four I've read so far and James is a close second. I'm Australian and live in the suburbs about 60 mins from where Stoneyard Devotional is set, on the Monaro Plains, The Monaro Hwy is 2 mins from where I live and the road I use to go into the Canberra city centre. It's blurbed as being set in the Australian Outback, which is just laughable to me. People, mainly Public Servants, commute to work in Canberra from that area. Stoneyard Devotional isn't even Charlotte Wood's best book, The Weekend and The Natural way of things are better books. If you're going to buy an Australian novel, Praiseworthy by Indigenous author, Alexis Wright, is the one I'd buy. It's utterly brilliant, subversive, sharpwitted and orginal. I just can't believe it wasn't on the list. It is streets ahead of the ones I've read. I'd be really surprised if Charlotte's book is even shortlisted. In her interviews, she says The Booker isn't even a prize she follows herself. I suspect she's probably embarrassed by the nomination over Wright's novel. Wright has been shortlisted for The Miles Franklin Prize so far and Stoneyard didn't make the shortlist. Anyway, I hope it helps with her book sales. Hope you enjoy the ones you get to read 🙂

[@GuiltyFeat]

What a fantastic response, thanks. Praiseworthy wasn't on my radar until everyone started complaining that it wasn't on the longlist. I'm not sure I'm ready for 700 pages of stream-of-consciousness as I'm still scarred from reading Duck, Newburyport.

[@kimswhims8435]

@@GuiltyFeat Oh Praiseworthy is much more than stream of consciouness, there's a bit of that but so much more besides. It's not like Ducks at all. 🙂

[@MarcNash]

I liked Orbital, but it's not a Booker winner IMO. She's far superior to Max Porter. I can recommend "Headshot". I might pick up the Kushner when it comes out and the only other one I' interested is the Colin Barrett.

[@GuiltyFeat]

Are you not even a little intrigued by a book about women's boxing by Rita Bullwinkel?

[@MarcNash]

@@GuiltyFeat Oh no I've read it and enjoyed it. Again perhaps not a winner of the prize though

[@GuiltyFeat]

Ah, got it. Makes sense.

[@princegollygosh]

Rita Bullwinkle is surely a joke name. Colin Barratt's alter ego.

[@GuiltyFeat]

That makes both a lot of and absolutely no sense.