In this video I challenge @benreadsgood to a booker Prize Longlist prediction battle. Whose method will reign supreme! (Probably Bens haha) GOODREADS ELIGIBLE BOOKER PRIZE BOOKS LIST - / 188738.booker_prize_el...
This is fun! :) I'm just here to say I predicted 5 books in 2022 😎and 3 books in 2023. I haven't made my list this year, finding it hard to decide really.
This was fun but SIR YOU ARE GOING DOWN 🫨 It’s actually not a bad list to be fair! Although Goodreads might have done you dirty because I don’t think 2 of the picks are eligible (we can call that 1-0 to the spreadsheet 😉) It’s Booker season baby!!
@@rororeads Sorry, that is my GR Listopia you used, and unfortunately, it was culled of ineligible books apparently right after you used it! People keep adding books in without vetting them to be sure they are eligible, so it's kind of impossible to keep up. Ordinary Human Failings was within last year's cut-off dates and Poor Deer has no UK publisher, so both ineligible! My apologies! :-(
@@douggordydon’t worry about it. Thanks for putting the list together in the first place! This was just a bit of fun so I don’t mind at all. Thanks for commenting :)
These prediction lists are possibly more fun than the actual reveal. I have read exactly zero of these books but I have Absolution, Private Rites and Ordinary Human Failings on my TBR for what it's worth (not much!). This was great!
Ooh, between Ben's spreadsheets, your wheel of fortune, and Charlotte's tarot cards... you've probably all gotten it completely wrong, but I'm here for all the prediction videos anyway. 😂 Btw, A Trace of Sun has a very unmemorable look, but it was actually on the Women's Prize longlist! As for Ordinary Human Failings, it came out a year ago, so surely that's not eligible. Which is a shame, because I am firmly in camp "should have been shortlisted".
Love the random method! I was asked to be in a golf pool for the Masters a few years ago by a work colleague. Knowing nothing about golf, I chose the golfers with the craziest names, placed 3rd, won some money and pissed off a bunch of men I work with. Success! Haha I’ve read two of the books you picked at random, Absolution and Ordinary Human Failings. Neither would be a favourite read of the year but they were really enjoyable reads just the same!
That was a lot of fun, lol. Goes to show how random it could be, you actually might do pretty well here. Two women's prize longlisted books that I've already dnf (probably good books, just didn't suit my mood at the time). Two others on my library TBR, who knows if I'll actually get to them (Private Rites and The Fertile Earth). I've read a lot of Evie Wylds writing, she's done very well in Australian Prizes with her previous works. Happy Reading 😀
