Readers' guides for reading groups
The Man Booker Prizes offer libraries a range of opportunities to get involved with the prize. This is the Readers' guides page with downloadable readers' guides sheets relating to various prizes. Visit the Downloadable resources page for materials for your library, including projector images and posters.
The Man Booker Prize is guaranteed to inspire your reading group; whether it's the books that the judges have included or those that they have left out; there is always something for readers to discuss. Our Toolkits, downloadable from the links below, provides a range of ideas that will help your reading group get the most out of the opportunities created by the prize and will help members of your group to feel part of one of the world's most important and prestigious literary prizes.
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2012 Readers' guides
Nicola Barker - The Yips (Fourth Estate)
Ned Beauman - The Teleportation Accident (Sceptre)
André Brink - Philida (Harvill Secker)
Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books)
Michael Frayn - Skios (Faber & Faber)
Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Doubleday)
Deborah Levy - Swimming Home (And Other Stories)
Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)
Alison Moore - The Lighthouse (Salt)
Will Self - Umbrella (Bloomsbury)
Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis (Faber & Faber)
Sam Thompson - Communion Town (Fourth Estate)
Collated reading guide for all of the 2012 Man Booker Prize longlisted novels
2011 Readers' guides
Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry - On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menageri (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
Yvvette Edwards - A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness - The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller - Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick - Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor - Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
2011 Toolkit
Reading Groups and Events
The Man Booker Prize Quiz 2011
The Man Booker Prize Quiz 2011 (answers)
2010 Readers' guides
Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America
Emma Donoghue - Room
Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal
Damon Galgut - In a Strange Room
Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question Andrea Levy - The Long Song
Tom McCarthy - C
David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Lisa Moore - February
Paul Murray - Skippy Dies
Rose Tremain - Trespass
Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
Alan Warner - The Stars in the Bright Sky
2010 Toolkit
1969-2010 Who's Who wallchart
2009 Readers' guides
A.S. Byatt - The Children's Book
JM Coetzee - Summertime
Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze
Sarah Hall - How to Paint a Dead Man
Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness
James Lever - Me Cheeta
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Simon Mawer - The Glass Room
Ed O'Loughlin - Not Untrue & Not Unkind
James Scudamore - Heliopolis
Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn
William Trevor - Love and Summer
Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger
2009 Toolkit
Lost Man Booker Prize
Readers Guide
Shortlist Flyer
Shortlist Poster
The Man Booker Best of Beryl guides
The Dressmaker (1973)
The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1990)
Every Man for Himself (1996)
Master Georgie (1998)
The Best of the Booker
Download the complete set of six the Best of the Booker Readers' Guide in one single download or choose any of the single titles below.
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda
Nadine Gordimer - The Conservationist
Pat Barker - The Ghost Road
J. G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur
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