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The Booker Prizes offer libraries and reading groups 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 Booker Prizes 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.

The 2019 International Booker Prize readers' guides

The 2019 Booker Prize readers' guides

2019 Man Booker International Prize reader's guides

Man Booker Prize 2018 readers' guides

Warlight, Michael Ondaatje(Jonathan Cape)

Man Booker International Prize 2018 readers' guides

The 7th Function of Language, Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor (Harvill Secker)
The Impostor, Javier Cercas, Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press)
Vernon Subutex 1, Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press)
Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky (Portobello Books)
The White Book, Han Kang, Deborah Smith (Portobello Books)
Die, My Love Ariana Harwicz, Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff (Charco Press)
The World Goes On, László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes (Tuskar Rock Press)
Like a Fading Shadow, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Camilo A. Ramirez (Tuskar Rock Press)
The Flying Mountain, Christoph Ransmayr, Simon Pare (Seagull Books)
Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi, Jonathan Wright(Oneworld)
Flights, Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
The Stolen Bicycle, Wu Ming-Yi, Darryl Sterk (Text Publishing)
The Dinner Guest, Gabriela Ybarra, Natasha Wimmer (Harvill Secker)

Man Booker Prize 2017 readers' guides

4 3 2 1, Paul Auster (Faber & Faber)
Days Without End, Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
Solar Bones, Mike McCormack (Ireland) (Canongate)
Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor (4th Estate)
Elmet, Fiona Mozley (JM Originals)
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton)
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury Circus)
Autumn, Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
Swing Time, Zadie Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (Fleet)

Man Booker International Prize 2017 readers' guides

Compass, Mathias Enard, Charlotte Mandell (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Swallowing Mercury, Wioletta Greg, Eliza Marciniak (Portobello Books)
A Horse Walks Into a Bar, David Grossman, Jessica Cohen (Jonathan Cape)
War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans, David McKay (Harvill Secker)
The Unseen, Roy Jacobsen, Don Bartlett, Don Shaw (Maclehose)
The Traitor's Niche, Ismail Kadare, John Hodgson (Harvill Secker)
Fish Have No Feet, Jon Kalman Stefansson, Phil Roughton (Maclehose)
The Explosion Chronicles, Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas (Chatto & Windus)
Black Moses, Alain Mabanckou, Helen Stevenson (Serpent's Tail)
Bricks and Mortar, Clemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra (Pushkin Press)
Judas, Amos Oz, Nicholas de Lange (Chatto & Windus)
Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (Oneworld)

Man Booker Prize 2016 readers' guides

The Sellout, Paul Beatty (Oneworld)
The Schooldays of Jesus, J.M. Demon gaze 2 dlc. Coetzee (Harvill Secker)
Serious Sweet, A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape)
Hot Milk, Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton)
His Bloody Project, Graeme Macrae Burnet (Contraband)
The North Water, Ian McGuire (Scribner UK)
Hystopia, David Means (Faber & Faber)
The Many, Wyl Menmuir (Salt)
Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh (Jonathan Cape)
Work Like Any Other, Virginia Reeves (Scribner UK)
My Name Is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout (Viking)
All That Man Is, David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien (Granta)

Man Booker International Prize 2016 readers' guides

A General Theory of Oblivion, José Eduardo Agualusa, Daniel Hahn (Harvill Secker)
The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions)
The Vegetarian, Han Kang, Deborah Smith (Portobello Books)
Mend the Living, Maylis de Kerangal, Jessica Moore (Maclehose Press)
Man Tiger, Eka Kurniawan, Labodalih Sembiring (Verso Books)
The Four Books, Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas (Chatto & Windus)
Tram 83, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Roland Glasser (Jacaranda)
A Cup of Rage, Raduan Nassar, Stefan Tobler (Penguin Modern Classics)
Ladivine, Marie NDiaye, Jordan Stump (Maclehose Press)
Death by Water, Kenzaburō Ōe, Deborah Boliver Boehm (Atlantic Books)
White Hunger, Aki Ollikainen, Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah (Peirene Press)
A Strangeness in My Mind, Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap (Faber & Faber)
A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (Picador)

Man Booker Prize 2015 readers' guides

Did You Ever Have A Family, Bill Clegg (Jonathan Cape)
The Green Road, Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James (Oneworld Publications)
The Moor’s Account, Laila Lalami (Periscope, Garnet Publishing)
Satin Island, Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)
The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma (ONE, Pushkin Press)
The Illuminations, Andrew O’Hagan (Faber & Faber)
Lila, Marilynne Robinson (Virago)
Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy (MacLehose Press, Querus)
The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Shaota (Picador)
The Chimes, Anna Smaill (Sceptre)
A Spool of Thread, Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus)
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (Picador)

Man Booker Prize 2014 readers' guides

Man Booker Prize 2013 readers' guides

Alison MacLeod - Unexploded (Hamish Hamilton)
Charlotte Mendelson - Almost English (Mantle)
Colm Toibin - The Testament of Mary (Viking)
Colum McCann - TransAtlantic (Blooomsbury)
Donal Ryan - The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland)
Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries (Granta)
Eve Harris - The Marrying of Chani Kaufman (Sandstone Press)
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland (Bloomsbury)
Jim Crace - Harvest (Picador)
Noviolet Bulawayo - We Need New Names (Chatto & Windus)
Richard House - The Kills (Picador)
Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being (Canongate)
Tash Aw - Five Star Billionaire (Fourth Estate)
Collated reading guide for all of the 2013 Man Booker Prize longlisted novels

Man Booker Prize 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)

Man Booker Prize 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)

Man Booker Prize 2011 Toolkit

Reading Groups and Events
The Man Booker Prize Quiz 2011
The Man Booker Prize Quiz 2011 (answers)

Man Booker Prize 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

Man Booker Prize 2010 Toolkit

Man Booker Prize 1969-2010 Who's Who wallchart

Man Booker Prize 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

Man Booker Prize 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

Jessica Renee Williams (born July 31, 1989) is an American actress and comedian best known for her work as a senior correspondent on The Daily Show and as co-host of the podcast 2 Dope Queens.

Early life[edit]

Jessica Renee Williams was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended Nathaniel Narbonne High School where she flourished in the school's drama department. She made her television debut as a series regular on the Nickelodeon series Just for Kicks in 2006^[2] and in 2012, she became The Daily Show's youngest correspondent ever.^[3][4] She attended California State University, Long Beach.^[5] Results of a DNA test traced Williams's maternal ancestry to the Bamileke people of Cameroon.^[6]

Career[edit]

Williams made her Daily Show debut on January 11, 2012.^[7] Williams is a frequent performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.^[5] Williams also made appearances on Season 3 of HBO's Girls.^[8] She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York^[9] and Los Angeles, California.^[10] She appears in the film People Places Things. She currently co-hosts the comedy podcast 2 Dope Queens with Phoebe Robinson. Williams appears in an HBO special spun off from the podcast in February, 2018.^[11] She appeared on her last Daily Show episode on June 30, 2016.^[12] She is the star of the 2017 Netflix comedy movie The Incredible Jessica James, in which she portrays a character whom the Guardian described as 'a struggling Brooklyn-based playwright navigating the murky waters of modern romance while waiting impatiently for her big break.'^[13] She appeared in the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, titled Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as Professor Eulalie 'Lally' Hicks, a teacher from the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.^[14]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Podcast[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'The Birth of Jessica Williams'. California Birth Index. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
2. ^Gilbert, Matthew (April 7, 2006). ''Just for Kicks' shows girls how to get along'. The Boston Globe.
3. ^Del Signore, John (January 19, 2012). 'Jon Stewart: SOPA Will Drive Us To Libraries 'Like A Common Masturbator''. Gothamist. Archived from the original on June 2, 2012.
4. ^Czajkowski, Elise (February 27, 2014). 'Talking to 'Daily Show' Correspondent Jessica Williams'. Splitsider. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
5. ^ ^ab'Jessica Williams'. Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
6. ^The Daily Show Correspondents Discover Their African Ancestry
7. ^'Indecision 2012 - In the South of Madness'. The Daily Show. January 11, 2012.
8. ^Williams, Lauren (January–February 2014). 'The Daily Show's Jessica Williams on Race, Comedy, and Her Role in 'Girls.''. Mother Jones. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
9. ^'FACES: THE DAILY SHOW'S JESSICA WILLIAMS INTERVIEW'. Nixon. Archived from the original on December 31, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
10. ^2 Dope Queens Podcast, Episode 28, A Sex Toy in Every Port
11. ^''2 Dope Queens' Jessica Williams, Phoebe Robinson on Taking HBO by Storm'. Rolling Stone.
12. ^Rahman, Ray (June 29, 2016). 'Jessica Williams is leaving The Daily Show — exclusive'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
13. ^Nevins, Jake (July 26, 2017). 'The incredible Jessica Williams: 'Great comedy comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up''. The Guardian. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
14. ^'Jessica Williams Joins J.K. Rowling to Announce Her Fantastic Beasts Character'. Vulture.

External links[edit]

• Jessica Williams on IMDb