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Booker Prize Reading Guides

Reading guides

Designed for libraries and book clubs, our reading guides provide a wealth of information and discussion points – including comments from the Booker judges – to help enhance your enjoyment and understanding of dozens of Booker-nominated titles

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Space Station - view on a Planet out of a Space Station in orbit - 3D Rendering

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Reading guide: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

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Reading guide: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

The Story of the Lost Child Reading Guide

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Reading guide: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

Haunted house with The Little Stranger book overlay.

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Reading guide: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

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Reading guide: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

James by Percival Everett

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Reading guide: James by Percival Everett

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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Reading guide: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wouden

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Reading guide: The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

Held by Anne Michaels

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Reading guide: Held by Anne Michaels

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

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Reading guide: Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Aerial vertical view of artic sea, Senja, Norway.

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Reading guide: The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

The Booker Prize 2024 shortlist

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Discover our reading guides for the Booker Prize 2024 shortlist

Siam-Burma Railway over River Kwai in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

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Reading guide: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Front cover of 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World on top of a picture of a beautiful sunrise at Istanbul.

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Reading guide: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

Line drawing of 2 men against a painted abstract background.

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Reading guide: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

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Reading guide: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

Shortlist

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Discover our reading guides for the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist

Front cover of Washing Black with orange monthly spotlight badger over a picture of crops.

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Reading guide: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Book cover of Crooked Plow

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Reading guide: Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz

Book cover of Not a River.

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Reading guide: Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott