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32 books that inspired the International Booker Prize 2023

Type: Feature
Date: 02 May 2023

32 books that have inspired the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlistees

We asked each of the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlisted authors and translators which works of fiction have inspired them and their careers the most.

Type: Feature
Date: 18 Jul 2022

Six Booker Prizes-nominated books set in Italy

From modern romances to sweeping family sagas, these Booker Prize-nominated novels will take you on an unforgettable trip through Italy’s heart and soul

Type: Feature
Date: 21 Sep 2023

Reading guide: Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

In her tender and moving debut novel, Chetna Maroo captures grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl’s struggle to transcend herself

Type: Feature
Date: 16 Aug 2023

The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 8: An interview with Marlon James

In this episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts are joined by 2015 Booker Prize-winner Marlon James to discuss the prize’s impact on his career

Veronica and Jimmy (from the film of The Van) cheer Ireland on in the pub. There is a blue overlay and the monthly spotlight lettering circling the image of the book cover.

Type: Feature
Date: 04 Jun 2026

An extract from The Van by Roddy Doyle

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991, the third novel in Roddy Doyle’s comic Barrytown trilogy follows the adventures and misadventures of Jimmy Rabbitte Senior

Mixed media collage combining a black-and-white photo of a pair of hands, some open books, a tablet plus colourful graphic elements including large and small polka dots and a looping black line linking the books and the human hands together

Type: Feature
Date: 17 Jul 2025

10 of the best genre-bending Booker Prize-nominated novels

If you enjoy innovative books that switch between genres, play with forms, and generally turn the reader’s expectations upside down, this list is for you

MUBI films and International Booker shortlist teaser 2

Type: Feature
Date: 16 May 2023

If you loved the International Booker Prize 2023 shortlist, you'll love these films...

We believe there is a natural union between international fiction and film. Here, we recommend 6 great movies to complement this year’s International Booker shortlist

Type: Feature
Date: 30 Sep 2022

Reading Guide: The Trees by Percival Everett

Explore Percival Everett’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel The Trees with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it ‘asks questions about history and justice and allows not a single easy answer.’

Type: Book
Date: 12 Sep 2018

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk’s subversive, entertaining neo-noir is both gripping and thought-provoking, and anything but a conventional crime novel

Type: Feature
Date: 30 Aug 2022

An extract from Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Read the opening chapter from Nightcrawling; at once agonising and mesmerising, Leila Mottley presents a haunting vision of marginalised young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world.