Does your book club enjoy translated fiction? Or maybe you’d like to try something new! The International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist and longlist offer book clubs brilliant inspiration for selecting their next read and the prize also has brilliant resources (including reading guides and videos) to help your meet ups.
Book Club resources for Heart Lamp
Heart Lamp, written by Banu Mushtaq and translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi, has been announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025. Below are some resources that will be useful if you are interested in reading it with your book club.
📖 Everything you need to know about Heart Lamp
📖 Watch Ambika Mod read from Heart Lamp
📖 Read an extract
📖 Watch an interview with Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, author and translator of Heart Lamp
Book Club resources for the shortlisted books
Find out more about the remaining shortlisted books in our article. You can add the books you’d like to read to your TBR pile by clicking on the links below (just make sure you are logged in).
📖 On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Barbara J. Haveland
📖 Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, translated from French by Helen Stevenson
📖 Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from Japanese by Asa Yoneda
📖 Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from Italian by Sophie Hughes
📖 A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre, translated from French by Mark Hutchinson
Discover our reading guides for the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist
You may also want to check out the longlisted books.
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