The Booker Prize 2025

Around the world in 13 novels: this year’s longlist for the Booker Prize—one of the world’s most important award for fiction—encapsulates a vast range of international experiences, transporting readers to a farm in southern Malaysia, a Hungarian housing estate and a small coastal town in Greece. They shine a light on the lives of Koreans in postcolonial Japan, a homesick Indian in snowy Vermont, a Kosovar torture survivor living in New York, a shrimp fisherman in the north of England, a mother whose child was given up for adoption in Venezuela and even endangered snails in contemporary Ukraine. They reimagine the great American road trip as a slow-burning mid-life crisis, and take us into the heart of the UK’s coldest winter.

Arguably more than any other year in the prize’s history, this year’s longlist boasts a truly global outlook.

Updated October 16, 2025
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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...
The Rest of Our Lives
Markovits, Ben
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE "Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience." --Ann Patchett "Deeply human...a...
Universality
Brown, Natasha
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...
Flashlight
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle *...
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Desai, Kiran
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF PEOPLE'S TOP 5 BOOKS OF THE YEAR BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Audition
Kitamura, Katie M
Paper Book
NAMED A 2025 "ESSENTIAL READ" BY THE NEW YORKER AND A TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOGUE, TIME...
The Land in Winter
Miller, Andrew
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE・NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE・NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025・NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025・SHELF AWARENESS BEST BOOK OF 2025・WINNER 2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction・ WINNER 2025 Winston Graham...
Endling : a novel
Reva, Maria
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE * LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE * FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS
Flesh
Szalay, David
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE AND A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence From "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic.....
Seascraper
Wood, Benjamin
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, this "cinematically plotted...radiant" (The New York Times) novel follows shanker Thomas Flett as his quiet life in a small English coastal town is forever changed over the course of one fateful day. Twenty-year-old Thomas Flett lives a...

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