Booker Prize 2025 Longlist Announced

Chaired by Roddy Doyle, 1993 Booker Prize Winner, the 2025 judging panel includes Booker longlisted novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, award-winning actor, producer and publisher Sarah Jessica Parker, literary critic Chris Power and Booker Prize longlisted author Kiley Reid.

It represents 13 novels by authors from nine nationalities, the most globally diverse longlist in a decade.

The Booker Prize 2025 Longlist

1. Love Forms by Claire Adam (Trinidad)
2. The South by Tash Aw (Malaysia)
3. Universality by Natasha Brown (United Kingdom)
4. One Boat by Jonathan Buckley (United Kingdom)
5. Flashlight by Susan Choi (United States)
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (India, UK Based)
7. Audition by Katie Kitamura (United States)
8. The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits (United States)
9. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (United Kingdom)
10. Endling by Maria Reva (Ukraine)
11. Flesh by David Szalay (Hungary/United Kingdom)
12. Seascraper by Benjamin Wood (United Kingdom)
13. Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga (Albania)

Highlights

• This year’s list includes seven women and six men, touching on issues of identity, nationality, and modern life across four continents
  
• Kiran Desai returns after nearly two decades with The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a 667‑page epic exploring Indian-American experiences, making her a potential second Booker double‐winner.
  
• Two debut novels feature: Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga and Endling by Maria Reva
  
• The books range in style and length, from concise pieces under 200 pages (Universality, One Boat, Audition, Seascraper) to longer narratives like Desai’s.
  

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