With just two weeks to go until the Booker Prize 2025 longlist is announced, we asked this year's judges to tell us how they're approaching their reading – and to share some tips on how we might all find more room for reading in our lives.
A few of their suggestions:
1️⃣ ‘I read eating, queueing, waiting for buses, in a chair in a corner of my kitchen, in pubs and cafes and – once – at the back of a church at a funeral. (It’s what he would have wanted.)’
2️⃣ ‘It’s quite intense, but consistency does help’
3️⃣ ‘My finger being a guide on the page has moved me more quickly. I’m maintaining story and plot and specificity about the book, but I kind of let my hand keep me moving’
4️⃣ ‘There’s only one answer to this, really: make the time’
5️⃣ ‘I also suggest reading more than one book at a time. I like to make books compete against one another’
Read everything they had to say:
thebookerprizes.com/get-to-know-the-booker-prize-2025-judges
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