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    Here’s the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist.

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    September 23, 2025, 2:56pm

    Today, at a public event in London, the Booker Prizes announced their 2025 shortlist: six books narrowed down from the “Booker’s Dozen” (otherwise known as the longlist of 13), which was itself chosen from a starting pool of 153 books written in English and published between October 2024 and September 2025. Shortlisters are awarded £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book; the ultimate winner will take home £50,000, on top of the resultant sales and many bragging rights.

    Here’s this year’s shortlist:

    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)
    David Szalay, Flesh (Jonathan Cape)

    This year’s judges are Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power, Kiley Reid, Roddy Doyle (Chair) and Sarah Jessica Parker. The winner will be announced on November 10, in London.

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