The Booker Prize revealed the 13 books longlisted for the 2025 edition showcasing a remarkable range of styles, scopes, and subjects, per npr.org. Roddy Doyle, chair of the 2025 Booker Prize judges, praised the selections, stating they “are all alive with great characters and narrative surprises.”
This year’s contenders include established names like Susan Choi for Flashlight and Katie Kitamura for Audition, alongside other acclaimed authors such as Maria Reva for Endling. The nominated works span from epic fables about Indian writers to dark comedies and metafictional novels exploring themes like a Ukrainian ecologist studying snails amidst war.
The Booker Prize celebrates fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
The winning author will receive £50,000 (approximately $66,000) at a livestreamed ceremony in London on November 10th.
Past winners include literary giants like Samantha Harvey, George Saunder and Marlon James.
The full longlist features: Love Forms by Claire Adam, 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, Audition by Katie Kitamura, The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits, The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller, Endling by Maria Reva, Flesh by David Szalay, Seascraper by Benjamin Wood, and Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga.
