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Take part in our latest challenge to explore the 2025 longlist, and connect with like-minded readers all over the world. Whether you want to read just one book or the entire list, we’d love you to join in. 

The Booker Prize Podcast returns to the movies this week to take a closer look at Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, the joint Booker Prize 1992 winner, and its big screen adaptation

First lines grab the reader’s attention and help set the tone for the rest of the novel. Test your knowledge on these opening words and see if you can match them to their famous titles

Discover more about the judges of the International Booker Prize 2024 and find out what they are hoping to find among this year’s submissions

 

Kazuo Ishiguro describes the intense four-week writing period behind his 1989 Booker Prize winner

Discover a range of Booker-nominated books that cross over into the magical realism genre, where the ordinary meets the extraordinary  

Best-known for his ‘virtually flawless’ A Month in the Country, James Lloyd Carr lived an eccentric life that encompassed, among many other things, cartography, cricket and coal 

In this week’s episode of The Booker Prize Podcast, our hosts discuss how to define a classic text, and which Booker Prize-nominated novels may now be worthy of the status

Author Romesh Gunesekera talks about how his Sri Lankan childhood made him a reader and why the literary canon must diversify