Booker Prize 2025 longlist announced
The longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced.
Longlisted for the £50,000 (A$102,449) prize are 13 titles:
- Love Forms (Claire Adam, Faber)
- The South (Tash Aw, Fourth Estate)
- Universality (Natasha Brown, Faber)
- One Boat (Jonathan Buckley, Fitzcarraldo)
- Flashlight (Susan Choi, Jonathan Cape)
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Kiran Desai, Hamish Hamilton)
- Audition (Katie Kitamura, Fern Press)
- The Rest of Our Lives (Ben Markovits, Faber)
- The Land in Winter (Andrew Miller, Sceptre)
- Endling (Maria Reva, Virago)
- Flesh (David Szalay, Jonathan Cape)
- Seascraper (Benjamin Wood, Viking)
- Misinterpretation (Ledia Xhoga, Daunt Books).
Chosen from 153 entries, the longlist this year includes authors representing 9 nationalities across 4 continents. With 5 titles in the list, the UK has the highest number of longlisted titles this year.
Previous winner Kiran Desai is nominated for the prize again after 19 years, having won the 2006 Booker for An Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton); while Andrew Miller and David Szalay have also been previously shortlisted.
Meanwhile, Maria Reva and Ledia Xhoga are recognised this year for their debut novels.
Booker Prize 2025 chair of judges Roddy Doyle said of the longlist, ‘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 shortlist will be announced at a public event on 23 September and the winner on 10 November.
Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital (Vintage).
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