Here’s the 2025 Booker Prize longlist.
Image © Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation
The longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize—arguably the most prestigious award for a single work of fiction published in the UK—was announced today. The 13 books, known as the “Booker Dozen,” were chosen from a total of 150 titles written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between October 1st, 2024 and September 30th, 2025.
“It wasn’t easy; at times, it was agony,” said Roddy Doyle, Chair of this year’s judging panel, in a statement. “There were so many contenders, so many excellent books, saying goodbye to some of them felt personal, almost cruel. But I loved every minute of the experience, and being in the company of my fellow judges.
I have the 13 longlisted novels on my desk, in a pile. My phone tells me that one meaning of ‘pile’ is ‘a heap of things’. It’s a wonderful heap—I don’t think I’ve seen a better one. At the end of our last, very long meeting, when we’d added the final book to the heap, we all felt relieved, elated—and maybe a bit proud.”
Here’s the longlist:
Claire Adam, Love Forms (Faber)
Tash Aw, The South (4th Estate)
Natasha Brown, Universality (Faber)
Jonathan Buckley, One Boat (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Susan Choi, Flashlight (Jonathan Cape)
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Hamish Hamilton)
Katie Kitamura, Audition (Fern Press)
Ben Markovits, The Rest of Our Lives (Faber)
Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter (Sceptre)
Maria Reva, Endling (Virago/Little, Brown)
David Szalay, Flesh (Jonathan Cape)
Benjamin Wood, Seascraper (Viking)
Ledia Xhoga, Misinterpretation (Daunt Books Originals)
The winner receives £50,000 and (usually) plenty in book sales; each shortlisted author will receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book. This year, the shortlist of six will be announced at a public event in London on September 23, and the winner will be announced on November 10.
