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Working my way through the Booker Prize longlist
My secret goal is to read at least one longlisted book before they’re announced. I successfully picked up The Things We Never Say this year and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Disappearers was on my TBR but I hadn’t gotten to it yet… oh well, be faster next time.
I’ve done this three years in a row and I rarely have a book I hate. It’s a nice look at literary fiction and “good” writing.
Whoa that's awesome! Do you have a vested interest in the literary world/"good writing" by chance -- i.e., do you write? Or more so out of enjoyment?
Also, how do you gage which books will be longlisted? I've not followed literary awards much.
I just read a lot. On pace for 130 books this year.
Discovery is hard… I was tinkering with an app
Unfortunately, publishers really don’t make their catalogues readily available to the public. You have to be a bookshop or library or known reviewer. Huge pain. Edelweiss does have some data you can use that’s cross-publisher, but it’s not an API.
I just want a place that is not the most popular books. Like, I really enjoyed the Dungeon Crawler Carl series… but it’s been top of the lists for over a year. Sigh
Ah I see, that is an incredible reading volume -- putting my number to shame haha. What's your secrets? ಠ_ಠ
Huh that's fascinating, thanks for elucidating that part of the book world for me. I can only imagine being the first to discover titles, being bit of a skill combined with access to certain resources (like most things).
Audiobooks on 2x and Always Be Reading haha.
If I crack the secret to book discovery, I’ll let you know. There’s a real opportunity there, I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet
Damn, when do you make the time to doom scroll then?! /s
I look forward to hearing about any new insights you uncover about it, never something I've thought about as a potential problem space. I think that app idea might be the start of something, most solutions are usually things that you had troubles with yourself, clearly your in the mud of the space haha.