The 2025 Booker Longlist Is Here
Book Riot - The Podcast
08/04/25
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Jeff and Rebecca break down the 2025 longlist for the Booker Prize, digest the news of a new book from Kamala Harris, lament the demise of class (behavior, not socio-economic status), and much more.
Jeff and Rebecca decide what the It Book of August will be.
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Kamala Harris to publish memoir about presidential race in September
The 2025 Booker Prize longlist
And a possible conflict of interest on the Booker panel
We’re getting a new George Saunders novel in January
The Carpool Detectives by Chuck Hogan
Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza
The Feather Detective by Chris Sweeney
The Brain at Rest by Joseph Jebelli
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