The longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced, featuring two debut novelists and a previous winner of the prize! The longlist of thirteen books – a 'Booker's Dozen' – includes novels from around the world, shining a light on experiences of shrimp fisherman, torture survivors, snail scientists and more.
Roddy Doyle, the 2025 Chair of Judges and a previous Booker Prize winner, said of the list: ‘There are short novels and some very long ones. There are novels that experiment with form and others that do so less obviously. Some of them examine the past and others poke at our shaky present. They are all alive with great characters and narrative surprises. All, somehow, examine identity, individual or national, and all, I think, are gripping and excellent.’
The 2025 Booker Prize longlist
Love Forms by Claire Adam
(due for publication in Australia in late September)
The South by Tash Aw
Universality by Natasha Brown
One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
(due for publication in Australia in late September)
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits
(more stock due in late August)
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Endling by Maria Reva
Flesh by David Szalay
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
(due for publication in Australia in late October)
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
(due for publication in Australia in early September)
This is the first time being longlisted for the Booker for nine of the authors, but Andrew Miller and David Szalay have both been shortlisted before – in 2001 and 2016, respectively – and Tash Aw is now one of just 24 authors in all of the Booker's history to have been nominated for the prize three times! The list also includes the latest novel from Kiran Desai, who won the 2006 Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
For the first time, this year's shortlist will be announced at a public event in London. That announcement will be on 23 September, and the winning book will then be announced on Monday 10 November. Find more information here, or follow our blog for more updates.
