A Global Reading Room booker prize

 

With the release of extracts from the 2025 longlist, the Booker Prize has created something unique: a global reading room.

From London to Lagos, from Mumbai to Melbourne, readers can now open the same passages, encounter the same characters, and begin the same conversations. These fragments of narrative become a common ground, allowing readers across borders to participate in a shared literary experience.

In an era when attention is often fleeting, extracts offer a way to pause — to focus deeply on a few pages of crafted prose, and to decide whether to journey further.

The longlist extracts are not only an opportunity to promote the books, but also a celebration of reading as a communal act. When millions of readers around the world encounter the same words, literature once again proves its power to unite.