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Booker Prize 2025: the ‘brilliantly human’ shortlist has been announced

The 2025 shortlist for the Booker Prize – the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction – has been announced, featuring a previous winner and three authors shortlisted for the first time

Watch the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films

Read more about the 2025 shortlist

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Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

As the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is announced, we’ve picked out the most interesting facts, trends and themes that have emerged in this year’s selection 

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The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: what our judges said

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Win the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, plus stylish stationery from Present & Correct

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Discover our reading guides for the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

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Read interviews with the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

Flashlight by Susan Choi

Flashlight

by Susan Choi

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai

Audition by Katie Kitamura

Audition

by Katie Kitamura

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

The Rest of Our Lives

by Ben Markovits

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

The Land in Winter

by Andrew Miller

Flesh by David Szalay

Flesh

by David Szalay

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Buy the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

Save nearly 30% when you buy all six Booker Prize shortlisted books for the special price of £75 from BookKind. Receive fast and free UK shipping along with a free exclusive BookKind tote bag with every order. International shipping rates apply. Plus, 10% of the value of your purchase will be donated to the Booker Prize Foundation, helping fund its work to support readers and writers of the future.

Explore the Booker Prize 2025 longlist

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Get to know the authors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works, their favourite books, and where and when they most like to write
 

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Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 longlist

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Read extracts from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist

The Booker Prize 2025 longlist of 13 books, displayed artfully on a desk

Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist should you read first?

The Booker Prize 2025 judges

What our judges said about the Booker Prize 2025 longlist

Discover our Monthly Spotlight for October

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Tim Winton interview: ‘The world isn’t always what you think it is’

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Reading guide: The Riders by Tim Winton

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An extract from The Riders by Tim Winton

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Win a copy of The Riders by Tim Winton

Original features from the Booker Library

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The Booker Prize 2025 longlisted authors on the books that made them want to write

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How the Booker Prize 2025 longlist explores masculinity in all its forms

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The Booker Prize 2025 judges and longlisted authors describe their dream book clubs

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How to read like a Booker Prize judge – according to Chris Power

More reading recommendations

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Eight Booker Prize-nominated books for fans of Downton Abbey

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Get more out of your book club with the Booker Prizes

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Eleven Booker Prize-nominated novels that contain dramatic love triangles

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Nine Booker-nominated novels featuring strong female friendships

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Nine Booker-nominated novels set in New York City

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Eight Booker Prize-nominated novels that were inspired by other books

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10 Booker-nominated books for music lovers

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10 of the best genre-bending Booker Prize-nominated novels

Read our exclusive interviews

Pat Barker

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

Richard Flanagan

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

Marlon James

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

Ian McEwan

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

Events, pop-ups and dates for your diary

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The Booker Prizes: live!

From intimate gatherings to bustling festivals, we celebrate the best in fiction at these UK events featuring Booker Prize and International Booker Prize authors. Click here to find out more, including how to get tickets for the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist announcement event in London

Revisit the International Booker Prize 2025

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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

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Watch Ambika Mod read an extract from Heart Lamp

Heart Lamp

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

Heart Lamp

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

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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

Read about our previous Monthly Spotlights

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Monthly Spotlight: Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

Wildly imaginative and timely, Little Eyes explores the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, and the way our digital lives allow us to observe others – and be observed by them

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Monthly Spotlight: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

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Monthly Spotlight: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated by Tiffany Tsao

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Monthly Spotlight: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Monthly Spotlight: The Overstory by Richard Powers

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