Booker Prize 2025

Winner announced November 10, 2025

Updated October 14, 2025
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Flesh
Szalay, David.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize | Finalist for the Kirkus Prize From Booker Prize finalist and "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (The Baffler) novel about a man whose life veers off course...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie.
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."--NPR "Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will...
The loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : a novel
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family,...
Flashlight : a novel
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
Long-listed for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award "The first major American novel to be published this year." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking." --Sam Worley, New York...
Misinterpretation
Xhoga, Ledia
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize Winner of the 2024 New York City Book Award Finalist for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "Absolutely gorgeous. Taut as a thriller, lovely as a watercolor."--Jennifer Croft In...
Universality : a novel
Brown, Natasha (Novelist)
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * "A bold and memorable achievement."--The Booker Prize 2025 judges Remember--words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power, hailed as "a nesting doll of satire that...
The South
Aw, Tash.
Paper Book
A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once flourishing farm that has...
Love forms
Adam, Claire
Paper Book
BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST * "A vibrant, heartstrings-tugging novel" (People) about a mother's love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child "A beautiful story . . . explores what it means...

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