Category: Literary fiction
For our 25th Bookerthon, we hunkered down in Arrowtown, Central Otago, where fresh snow made for great photos against the blue skies and Spring blooms. The setting, as it turned out, mirrored the prose of this year’s Booker shortlist: crisp, clear and alive. They were… Continue Reading “Bookerthon – 2025”
READ FOR BOOKERTHON The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny follows two immigrants navigating the quiet ache of isolation in a globalised world. Sonia and Sunny are writers in America, out of tune with their partners and confessing to loneliness and homesickness for their native… Continue Reading “The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny – Kiran Desai”
Category: Art, Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Cultural, Family drama, Immigrant story, Indian fiction, Literary fiction, Magical Realism, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, SatireTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKERTHON One summer night, a man disappears while walking with his daughter on a Japanese beach. Born Korean, Serk has a complicated relationship with his past. His daughter and American wife become disorientated, facing the challenges of ordinary life all the while… Continue Reading “Flashlight – Susan Choi”
Category: Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Cultural, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Immigrant story, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, National Book Awards, Political, Psychological, US fiction, War story, Women's PrizeTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025, Women's Prize
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubled, and young. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In Audition, two competing but mirroring narratives… Continue Reading “Audition – Katie Kitamura”
Category: Art, Booker Prize, Domestic Fiction, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Philosophical, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Thriller, Unreliable Narrator, US fiction, Women's PrizeTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Tessa Prophet Song is set in an alternative Dublin where a tyrannical government is weaving its way into people’s lives, the rebels are rising up and society is slowly collapsing. It focuses on one family who suffer in many ways and… Continue Reading “Prophet Song – Paul Lynch”
Category: Booker Prize, Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Family drama, Female Experience, Irish, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Realist, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKERTHON The story of István, a Hungarian teen who lives with his mother and is subjected to a traumatic event. From there we bear witness to a collection of intimate moments set over years, chronicling the demands of life for an everyday… Continue Reading “Flesh – David Szalay”
Category: Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Existentialist, Immigrant story, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Psychological, Realist, UK author, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Bristol, 1962, post-war optimism is fading, and a new, modern world forming. Two young couples live next to each other: a doctor and his wife in a beautiful cottage, a farmer and his wife in a rundown, under-heated farmhouse. Both women… Continue Reading “The Land In Winter – Andrew Miller”
READ FOR BOOKERTHON When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while taking her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact, and keeps driving West. This road… Continue Reading “The Rest Of Our Lives – Ben Markovits”
Category: Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Psychological, Realist, Road Trip, US fictionTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
Posted on September 17, 2025
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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel In a climate ravaged dystopian future where robots (Hums) take the every day jobs of humans and surveillance is at an all time high, a woman undergoes experiental facial surgery in order to pay her bills and treat her… Continue Reading “Hum – Helen Phillips”
Category: AI, Climate Fiction, Climate Fiction Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Environmental fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, Realist, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Surreal, Thriller, US fictionTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Three women – a maverick biologist and two sisters embroiled in the Russian bride industry and searching for their missing mother – kidnap 13 hopeful bachelors and race across Ukraine trying to find a mate for a last-of-its-kind Lefty… Continue Reading “Endling – Maria Reva”
Category: Absurdist, Adventure, Booker Prize, Climate Fiction Prize, Environmental fiction, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Political, Postmodern Literature, Satire, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2025
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