The Book Club Review

The 2025 Booker Prize: From Shortlist to Spotlight

Beyond the Shortlist: The 2025 Booker Longlist titles worth your time • #181

Autumn bookshelf, with Kate & Laura • Episode #180

Book Club: Universality and Sparks of Bright Matter • Episode #179

Shelf-reflective: Books about Books, with Joseph Dance • #178

Bookish in Seattle • Episode #177

Friendship and Fiction in New York • Episode #176

Explicitly Literary: sex writing in books • Episode #175

Books, film, TV and Murderbot

Nonfiction That Changed Us, featuring Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon • #172

How to Read Yourself Happy, with Daisy Buchanan • Episode #171

Book Club: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk • #170

Meditations for Mortals, with Oliver Burkeman • Episode #169

Page-Turning Plans: Looking ahead to 2025 • Episode #168

Unputdownable: the best books we loved in 2024 • Episode #167

The Booker Prize 2024 • Episode #166

Summer Reading Report 2024: Hits, misses and anticipations

Notebook Nirvana: Stationery and the Joys of Notetaking, with David Frostick

Unpacking the best: The NYT's best books of the 21st century • #163

Summer Bookshelf • Episode #162

Books that Make us Laugh • Episode 161

Talking Non-Fiction, with Tom Rowley of Backstory • Episode #160

Browsing the So Many Damn Books bookshelf, with Christopher Hermelin • #159

Book club: The New Life by Tom Crewe • Episode #158

Mild Vertigo and Japan lit • Episode 157

Early Spring Bookshelf • Episode #156

Future Reads 2024, with Chrissy Ryan • Episode #155

Best Books of 2023 • Episode #154

The Booker Prize 2023 • Episode 153

Lonesome Dove, and other reads • Episode #152

So Late in the Day and other reads • Episode #151

Fiction and Philosophy, with Jonny Thomson • Episode #150

Late-Summer Reading, with Bookbar • Episode #149

The Years by Annie Ernaux, Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell, and a whole lot more • Episode #148

Bookshopaholics • Books on the Hill • #147

Fiction Prescriptions with Ella Berthoud • #146

The Women's Prize 2023 • Episode #145

Bookshelf: Summer vibes • Episode #144

So Many Damn Books • Episode #143

Book Club: Victory City • #142

Bookshelf: Easter reads • Episode #141

Free and The Snow Ball • Book Club, episode #140

Bookshopaholics: The Paperhound, Vancouver

Bookshelf: Spring Reads • Episode #138

Future reads 2023 • Episode #137

Bookshelf: Winter Reads • Episode #136

The Thursday Murder Club • Episode #135

Best Books of 2022 • Episode #134

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, My Phantoms and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street – what did our book clubs make of them?