Horror sales boom, PEN awards cancelled, and Booker contender releases • This Month in Book News ✨
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- We're back with the latest news for May, with SO MANY new book releases, TOO MUCH book prize news, and a lot of news stories that are, to be honest, all just a little depressing.
Correction: the Dylan Thomas Prize is for writers 39 and under, not for writers under 35.
New releases Bookshop.org list:
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Curated Kindle deals list:
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Pulitzer Prize predictions:
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00:00 Book news
05:58 New book releases
10:39 Future release announcements
11:47 Prize news and dates
15:19 Books on screen
17:19 Deals
17:53 Feelgood story
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"Shouldn't they be reading spreadsheets instead?" BEN 😂 x
Novels are clearly too juicy for the FT 😂
Yep, once again, you've nailed it. This is Ben Reads Good 2.0, a timely service which is much needed and welcomed in the bookering community. Sorry this means more work for you, but please stay with it and make it a staple feature. Also, thank you for slowing it down just a bit. Your work is too good not to be absorbed as thoughtfully as you research and present it.
Hahaha the sequel everyone was waiting for 😂
Thanks for the kind words. It's definitely a bit more work than my other videos, so I'm going to have to figure out how to keep it manageable, but it's so lovely to hear that people are finding these useful and interesting.
Love this format! It gives me the feeling of watching the news, without the feeling of watching the news... if that makes sense. Thank you for doing this!
Thank you - glad you like it! It’s always the kind of thing I’m on the look out for but can never find, so thought I’d have a go myself 😊
@@benreadsgood Only way to get it done is to do it yourself! 😅 👏 I apprecieate all the effort that goes into it!
Ive been saying I want someone to condense and share book news, I feel like it's something thats missing and you have absolutely delivered! Thank you for making these!! So excited to follow along
Thanks so much for the kind comment! 🥰
Love this monthly round up. Thank you for taking the time to do the work this will involve. Particularly delighted to see Truss failing against the lettuce.
It’s what Truss deserves!!! Thanks for watching, and I’m so glad you hear you’re enjoying these ones 😊
Just brilliantly done Ben! Best Literary info ever! Very impressive! Hope you get half the enjoyment out of doing it that I did from watching it.
Ben, you're winning with this segment of your channel!
So glad you like it - thank you!
So I wonder when we're going to see Ben on TV presenting literary programmes?!
I'm late seeing this for some reason, but it was absolutely brilliant and must be a lot of work for you, so thanks so much for keeping us up to date in such a fun way!
Hahaha I think there's more chance of my going to the moon 😂 But I am so glad you liked the video!
Thank you for putting these videos together! I've felt very detached from Booktube and the bookish community in general lately, and this is a fun way to catch up a bit. 🥰
So glad you find this helpful. Thanks for watching and commenting!
This is so helpful, Ben! Sometimes I just need a spot to get all the book news at once! I’m excited to follow along for future news.
Thanks so much for watching!
Brilliant video, thanks Ben. I’m so excited for Mr Loverman, it’s probably my favourite of Bernadine Evaristos books
So proud of the book / author community and the pressure on the PEN American award making things happen. 🍉
"Hungry Ghosts" has been on my shelf for so long, I have to finally read it in May.
Thanks for the lovely video and format!
The courage to sacrifice something big in your own career is inspiring, isn’t it!
Thanks so much for watching.
Thank you for this, again! ❤️
So many books and so little time. Best wishes.
Ben, I never comment, but I love your channel. These segments are awesome!!! I subscribed to your channel a long time ago and I'm not sorry!!! Hello from Colorado😊
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment - so pleased you like these videos ❤️
omg i've discovered a gem of a channel-- thanks for the great video
Thank you so much!!! Glad you like it 😊
Great series and great work! As a reader who live in Asian but primarily read books in English, the literary and book information can be scattered or hard to come across, this format is helping a lot! ❤ and your speed is perfect in this one!
Paul Auster is one of my favorite author when comes to metafiction. I know he had been battling with cancer for several years, so the news is not a surprise but still very sad. I greatly recommend his work, my favorite one is The Book of Illusion.
Glad to hear you find this helpful! 🎉 And thanks very much for the Auster recommendation - I really need to give his work a go.
Fantastic video, thank you!
I love that format🩷📚I also completely missed the news of the new Southern Reach book! I stood up and pre-ordered it immediately.
I am LOVING this series of videos! Keeping me in the loop! Also very excited for the new Vandermeer and i want to reread the whole trilogy with the new covers they’re sooo sexy 🤤
Yay, glad you like them! Those new covers are PERFECT for sexy readers and I will be fuming if we don't get them in the UK.
Great video and really useful. Thank you!
Thanks for watching! 🙌
This is a great series! I discovered your channel a couple days before your first book news video. It's what made me subscribe.
So glad you’re continuing these videos!
Thanks for coming back for another one 🙌
I’m very much enjoying this new feature of yours! You do it so well. Nice cadence to your voice! Keep it coming!
Thanks so much, really appreciate the feedback! ♥️
These book news vids are really enjoyable and informative, thanks for making them Ben! ❤
So pleased you're enjoying them! They're a bit more work than my usual ones, but been really interesting to make so far.
Great second edition! Loved the slower pace.
The winner of the Stella prize was Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright, who is the first writer to win this award twice. I love me a bit of book news.
An amazing achievement for her! Will be interesting to see how she does in the Dublin Literary Award too.
Love your book news format, thanks for gathering all this info and curating for us!
You’re very welcome. Thanks so much for watching!
Thank you for the series! Such a good idea!
On the speaking speed: you are the only Booktuber whom I do not speed up usually :D
Thanks so much for watching! And for the watch speed intel!!! It's funny because I tend to check my videos once they're edited for any mistakes, but I watch them on 2x because I'm sick of myself by that point. So I am very used to hearing myself *racing* through my sentences 😂
I was so excited to watch this, my bookish news update 😊
The Safe Keep sounds like my cup of tea, I wouldn't have heard of this one without this video
Ahhh I'm so pleased 🥰 And yes The Safe Keep sounds great doesn't it! I was trying to think where I had seen it, and realised after filming that it was a recommendation from Diarmuid Hester (author/academic I follow on Instagram with EXCELLENT taste).
Love these videos Ben. Really refreshing content.
Glad to hear you’re enjoying them! Already making notes for June 📝
Please keep making these videos Ben, I really love this format ❤
So glad you like it! Planning on continuing for a while at least, so that I can get into the groove with them.
I like both speeds tbh! Fantastic video as always Ben, you would make a great newscaster 😂
Haha I would LOVE an autocue 😂 Thanks so much for watching.
Great format Ben! Hope you have the time to continue past your sophomore. With the new day comes new strength🥝
Thanks very much!
Thanks for the Shardlake news, my dad is a major fan and would love to see the adaptation. Sad to hear of the authors death though. I love your news of the month, keep it up!
Thanks very much, glad you’re liking it!
Hope your Dad enjoys Shardlake 😊
I love your book news videos Ben and hope you continue doing them! I learn so much from you..I didn’t know Paul Auster passed away and I never heard of Book Marks. And of course all the upcoming book releases. Great job! ❤
Yay, glad you’re enjoying them. Thanks for watching!
Loving this formal Nen, and thanks for slowing down! 😅 Really appreciate all the screenshots from Book Mark and Rotten Tomato’s too. Personally I’m extremely excited for the Mr Loverman adaptation - such a gem of a book ❤️
Thanks so much - it's nice to be able to give a sense of how the critics have reacted to stuff, so I'm just glad Bookmarks exists!
Definitely need to get around to reading Mr Loverman - not sure why I haven't yet 🤔
I really enjoy and appreciate these monthly book news videos. No one else I follow is doing this!📚👏🏽
It was something I was looking for myself, so I thought why not have a go 😅
Really enjoyed this format! Thanks for taking the time to research it. So excited about the Caledonian Road adaptation. (Also selfishly can I request a video about your trip to Japan when you're back please because I'm going in October!)
Thanks so much! Don't worry, a Japan vlog will be on the way soon 😅
Great overview! I really like these videos, they are very informative. And this time a was less worried about your oxygen supply. It is still a bit too quick for me, so I had to slow it down. 😌😴
Glad you enjoy them 🥳 And sorry if it's still a bit too speedy - I just worry about the length of them getting out of hand, and the longer they are, the longer they take me to edit and upload!
The Liz Truss bit was very funny!
Being laughed at is all she deserves 😂
Oh, this speed is much better than the last one in the series of book news. 📰
Very glad to hear this was a bit better paced for you 🙏
Wonderfull book news update! I loved your description of Liz Truss, as well. Very glad to know her book isn't sailing into the top of the bestsellers!
It’s genuinely a relief that people aren’t buying into her delusion 🥲
Thanks for this Ben. If other cultural issues got the same media attention as sport we would see a report like this on regular news. Luckily we have you to do it instead (and no doubt better)
Thanks so much for such a kind comment! 🥰
It's probably a sign of my reading state rn than anything, but all I heard is "here are a lot of books you will never get around to reading" 🤣😭
Don’t worry I feel the same! 😂
Wow I hadn't heard the PEN America news. Thanks for highlighting.
I just finished The Shardlake adaptation and really enjoyed it. There are changes to Dissolution, but it works.
It's a real shame, but hats off to the authors for their courage in standing up for something. It's a really powerful message.
Super speedy on the Shardlake watch! I'm debating whether I should read the book first (although who am I kidding I've got about a million TV shows to watch before this would get to the front of the queue 🫠).
Thanks Ben for including the Stella Prize! I was excited that Alexis Wright was announced as the winner yesterday 😊 will be seeing her at the Melbourne Writers Festival next weekend 😊 aah Liz Truss and the Aussie media 🤣🤣
Ahhh yes I just missed the announcement, but exciting news!
And that news clip cracks me up every single time 😂
Fantastic video and quite informative!
Glad you found it useful! 🙏
Love these videos! 😊
Yay, that's so nice to hear. Glad you like them!
This was fun! I have to watch again when I’m not at the tail end of my lunch hour so I can jot down all the new books coming out. Too many! First world reader problems. 😅
That Margaret Atwood cover! 😳😬
And your feel good story was hilarious. 🥬 😂
It’s what Liz deserves!!! And that cover is not what Margaret deserves 😭
This is great, thanks!
Thanks so much for watching 😊
I didn't know that Nightbi..h has become a cult classic. I'll have to make a point to read this year.
There is a small chance that I am wrong about that, but I feel like I see lots of low level buzz all the time. Perhaps I should have said it has a bit of a cult following rather than saying 'classic' quite yet (but I'm sure that will come if the movie is any good!)
interested to see the cultural impact of cunningham's great expectations in the UK. i 'm a US reader, and I found the writing to be hit-or-miss for me, while the coming-of-age aspects of the novel (ie everything that happens BEFORE the presidential campaign) were way more interesting to me
That's super interesting! I do love a coming of age, but I also find the machinations of politics fascinating, so fingers crossed I'll enjoy both. Although we have plenty of our own political drama in the UK, I do feel like we're quite exposed to American politics too, so hopefully it will land.
@@benreadsgood interested to watch your review eventually! and yeah, as an american, if UK politics are involved in a plot at all, it's a lot of googling for me haha. happened when I read "The Line of Beauty" last year
is it time to read Blue Sisters yet? can’t wait! 💙
I will leave that one to you!!! 😅
Loved this I’m buying all the kindle deals again 😂
I always reason that a book deal today saves you money tomorrow 👀
Did you mention Ghost Mountain by Ronan Hession? I know you’ve slowed down but it’s still pretty fast for some of us!
I didn't! But you know I actually saw it in multiple bookshops last week so I mistakenly thought it must have been released in April. Now that I've checked, I see it's coming on 23 May. These bookshops are jumping the gun!!!
The Ministry of Time is reminding me of when a studio pays an exorbitant amount of money for the rights to a movie at a festival, obviously expecting it to be huge, and once it comes out people are like really? that's the horse you bet on? lol. hoping i'm wrong!
Haha yes! It's definitely giving my Argylle vibes. You can tell they thought that would be huge.
I'm really looking forward to the adaptation of Mr Loverman - you must read it!
Very much enjoyed your video 😊
I really need to read it! It's been sitting on my shelf for far too long, and it's a short book too so no idea why I'm dragging my heels.
Hmmm, I hadn't heard of many of the new releases but I spy a couple that I want to try. The most exciting one for me is Long Island because I loved Brooklyn. I hope to never be bested by a head of lettuce. Great wrap up!
To my shame I haven't read Brooklyn (or any Tóibín) but it did end up on the Kindle deals list, so maybe now is my chance 👀
I think you're safe from the lettuce - Truss was a very special kind of incompetent!
@@benreadsgood I only started reading Toibin in this past year. The movie of Brooklyn with Saoirse Ronan is also very good.
Fantastic.
Thanks so much!
I love this series 😊
Thank you Charlie! ♥️
So do people in Britain really worry that much American elections? I mean, I'm terrified but it never occurred to me that others around the world might be as well.
I think the USA’s foreign policy can have so much impact that we tend to get drawn in, and definitely more worried than usual with this one… 👀
But we are also likely to have a General Election here in the UK this year! I read somewhere that over half the world’s population has an election in 2024 😱
OH I love this idea!
Glad you like it! 🙌
The lineup for Hay is wild this year! Or at least it has an unusual number of authors I take an interest in. Sad I won't be able to go 😩 Btw, do you know when the Orwell Prizes will reveal their lists? All I can find is "late May or early June" which is frustratingly vague.
It's so stacked! I was hoping to go but I'm not sure I can make it as it runs a bit too close to when I'm back from holiday. But perhaps I'll manage a day trip.
Just had a look and I don't think the Orwell has announced any dates yet. Last year the finalists were announced on 11 May, so perhaps the marketing cogs will start turning in the next week or so.
This was perfect 👏
Thanks so much! 🙌
"wannabe wet lettuce liz truss" lmaooooooo
thanks for making this! love this format!
Liz WISHES she could be as powerful as that lettuce!!!
Phew - here's me thinking I'm the only one who didn't enjoy Cleo and Frank. Love this series - hope you keep doing it. Also Bellies is an excellent read!
Yeah I read it because of the hype when it first came out and I was so disappointed! I don’t mind unlikeable characters, but I struggle with insufferable ones 😅
Cancelling the PEN awards is silly. Playing into the hands of Putin and the Ayatollah. Good work
I suppose they didn’t have much to go ahead with if the winners they had chosen had withdrawn.
Thanks for watching.
C.J. Samson's Dominion is an incredible alternative history novel. Definitely worth a read.
Thanks for the recommendation!
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The other vegetables wouldn’t talk to Liz 😂
Let's separate books from politics. Cancel culture has become absurd.
The ‘cancelled’ in this story is PEN America literally cancelling their awards ceremony.
🥬 😂
Really like these book news videos, which is funny because I never watch the real news if I can help it. I’m hoping the Shardlake adaptation might be good and that it won’t matter that I’ve so far only read two of the books. 😊📚
I would say filtering on the book stuff is a bit more positive, but this video's round of news stories was actually pretty misery-laden. I suppose it is Misery May after all.
I should have asked people to put lettuce emojis in the comments!!! 🥬
@@benreadsgood I must admit I was delighted to find a lettuce emoji!
Love these format of videos!
Thanks! They've been quite fun to put together so far (but ask me again in 6 months how I feel about them 😂).