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Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

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An extract from Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Playing basketball outdoors, design cutout in cubism style.

Book recommendations

Eight Booker Prize-nominated novels with a sporting edge

Author John Maxwell Coetzee.

Book recommendations

Where to start with J.M. Coetzee: a guide to his best fiction

Woman reading book and lying on sofa at home.

Opinion

How to read more in 2025, according to Booker Prize judges

BP24 longlist

Book recommendations

13 things you need to know about the Booker Prize 2024 longlist

The Booker Prize 2024 judges with the longlist

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What our judges said about the Booker Prize 2024 longlist

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

Reading guides

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

The Booker Prize 2025 judges - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power, Roddy Doyle, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kiley Reid - sitting together on a yellow velvet sofa and burgundy velvet armchair

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How our prize judges are chosen: ‘It’s the group dynamic that matters’

Illustration concept shows a man and a woman reading a book during their relaxing time.

Book recommendations

11 of the best books of short stories from the Booker Library

Author Margaret Atwood posing for a portrait in Toronto, Canada.

Book recommendations

Where to start with Margaret Atwood: a guide to her best books

A young male soldier in an old-fashioned khaki uniform. He's seated, his face is dirty and sweaty. His shirt is unbuttoned and dirty. He has two silver tags on a string around his neck.

Book extract

An extract from The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

The Death Railway travel at the River Kwai of the Burma-Thailand Railway north of the City of Kanchanaburi in Central Thailand.

Book recommendations

Monthly Spotlight: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

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Competition

Win a bundle of Richard Flanagan novels and a Booker Prize tote bag

Summer reading competition

Competition

Win a signed set of the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist and an instax smartphone printer

Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare.

Long read

Ismail Kadare and me: six memories of ‘the greatest writer of the age’

The Booker prize judges choose the long list of 13 books at the Chair of judges , Edmund De Waal's studio in South London.

Interview

Meet the Booker Prize 2024 judges: ‘The Booker is the Olympic gold medal of book awards’

Front cover of 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World on top of an image of a tile in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.

Book recommendations

Monthly Spotlight: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

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Book recommendations

Editors’ picks: our favourite Booker Prize-nominated books to read this summer

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Book recommendations

Nine Booker Prize-nominated novels with the best plot twists (no spoilers)

A summery illustration against an orange-yellow background showing an open book with a swimming pool within it. There are people around and in the pool; two sit on sit on sun loungers reading books.

Book recommendations

20 of the best summer reads nominated for the Booker Prize, chosen by our readers