From a vast range of global experiences to books brimming with long-held secrets, from fresh voices to Booker Prize alumni, here’s the lowdown on this year’s longlist
The Booker Prize 2025 longlist has now been announced – a selection of 13 superb works of long-form fiction, chosen from over 150 titles written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.
As Roddy Doyle, Chair of judges, says: ‘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 longlisted books are:
- Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
- Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
- Flesh by David Szalay
- Endling by Maria Reva
- The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
- The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits
- Audition by Katie Kitamura
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
- Flashlight by Susan Choi
- One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
- Universality by Natasha Brown
- The South by Tash Aw
- Love Forms by Claire Adam