Booker

Earlier this week, we announced the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist during our wonderful event at the Southbank Centre. Find out more about this year's shortlist ⤵️

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2025

September’s best

Ian McEwan's What We Can Know, Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me, Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, and Stephen Greenblatt's Dark Renaissance all feature among September's best reviewed books.

https://bookmarks.reviews/the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-month-9-26-2025/

Booker shortlist

"As a Booker prize judge I helped whittle 153 books down to a shortlist of six. Here's why you should read them."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/23/booker-prize-judge-shortlist-six

Flashlight to Katabasis: 18 of the best books of the year so far

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250619-the-best-books-of-2025

Booker prize finalists ‘25

Judges' blurbs
https://www.threads.com/@thebookerprizes/post/DO_STW-j3Ri?xmt=AQF0zfZH6E3ZmATMIMNJT2uLCy4d_Gy1ylDtIxLDvf0v9Q&slof=1

The Books We Loved This Summer

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/books/summer-reading-bucket-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

AI’s suggestions: best 21st century American philosophical novels so far

https://chatgpt.com/share/68cc0d81-e64c-8007-b336-13b10e001dee

First person

"The voice of the first person allows a great freedom. It can touch on reportage, natural history, science, fiction, poetry, myth. It can embrace such a wide variety of strategies."

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/william-fiennes-on-first-person-narratives/