Discover our reading guides for the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist

In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator   

An exhilarating novel-in-stories, Jonathan Escoffery’s debut pulses with style, heart and barbed humour, while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay cheques

In his spellbinding third novel, Paul Harding celebrates the hopes, dreams and resilience of those deemed not to fit in a world brutally intolerant of difference

In Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize 2023-winning novel, a mother faces a terrible choice as personal freedoms are eroded and society heads towards collapse

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

In his hilarious and heartbreaking fourth novel, Paul Murray presents an unforgettable Irish family in the grip of multiple crises: emotional, financial and existential