A group portrait of the Booker Prize 2025 judges. Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Roddy Doyle and Kiley Reid sit on a red velvet sofa, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Power standing behind them.

Coming soon: the Booker Prize 2025

The Booker Prize 2025 judges are: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power, Roddy Doyle (Chair), Sarah Jessica Parker and Kiley Reid. The longlist will be announced on 29 July, the shortlist on 23 September, and the winner on 10 November

Revisit the International Booker Prize 2025

Everything you need to know about Heart Lamp, winner of the International Booker Prize 2025

As Heart Lamp becomes the first short-story collection to win the International Booker Prize, here’s everything you need to know about the book, its author and translator

Ambika Mod reads an extract from Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq translated by Deepa Bhasthi

Watch Ambika Mod read an extract from Heart Lamp

Reading guide: Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi

An extract from Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi

Image of Heart Lamp book cover, author and translator

An interview with Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi, author and translator of Heart Lamp

See you in 2026...

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Meet the judges for the International Booker Prize 2026

Award-winning author Natasha Brown will Chair the International Booker Prize judging panel in its 10th anniversary year, as submissions open. She is joined by professor of mathematics Marcus du Sautoy; International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Sophie Hughes; writer, editor and bookshop owner Troy Onyango; and award-winning novelist and columnist Nilanjana S. Roy

Discover our Monthly Spotlight for July

Reading guide: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated by Tiffany Tsao

Tiffany Tsao interview: ‘I wanted to bring Norman’s voice to an anglophone readership’

An extract from Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated by Tiffany Tsao

Booker Prize tote bag and a copy of Happy Stories, Mostly

Win a copy of Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated by Tiffany Tsao

Dive into summer reading

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10 Booker Prize-nominated books that are perfect for hot weather

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13 of the best page-turners from the Booker Library

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10 Booker-nominated books to take to the seaside

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11 of the funniest novels from the Booker Library

Nine Booker-nominated novels to take on a road trip

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Editors’ picks: our favourite Booker Prize-nominated books to read this summer

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20 of the best summer reads nominated for the Booker Prize, chosen by our readers

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Summer reading quiz: find the perfect Booker book to take on holiday

Read our exclusive interviews

Pat Barker interview: ‘Success can be more challenging than failure’

Richard Flanagan interview: Winning the Booker was ‘a catastrophe of good fortune’

Marlon James interview: 'I used my prize money to buy a lamp that’s actually a life-sized horse'

Ian McEwan interview: 'The Booker is a spinning bottle. It didn't cross my mind that I would win'

Original features from the Booker Library

Shelf control: How to organise your bookshelves

Cover image winners of 1975 Booker Prize

The shortest shortlist ever: revisiting 1975’s Booker Prize

Why PEN Presents and the International Booker Prize have joined forces

Booker Prize 2024 and International Booker Prize 2025 judges.

How our prize judges are chosen: ‘It’s the group dynamic that matters’

Events, pop-ups and dates for your diary

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022

The Booker Prizes: live!

From intimate gatherings and bustling festivals to unique pop-ups and installations, we celebrate the best in fiction at these UK events featuring Booker Prize and International Booker Prize authors

Read about our previous Monthly Spotlights

Monthly Spotlight: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood in her Booker shortlisted novel, testing the bonds of parent and child to breaking point

Monthly Spotlight: The Overstory by Richard Powers

Monthly Spotlight: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Brief History of Seven Killings competition

Monthly Spotlight: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Monthly Spotlight: The Sea by John Banville

Get to know 2024’s Booker Prize winner

Samantha Harvey interview: ‘I wanted to write a space pastoral’

The author of Orbital, winner of the Booker Prize 2024, on how her novel was 25 years in the making, and the work of translated fiction that haunts her