The Booker Prize 2025 judges - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power, Roddy Doyle, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kiley Reid - sitting together on a yellow velvet sofa and burgundy velvet armchair

Get to know the Booker Prize 2025 judges

Discover more about the judges of the Booker Prize 2025 – their advice on reading more, the people they would choose to be in their dream book club and their all-time favourite Booker-nominated books

The panel is chaired by Booker Prize 1993 winner Roddy Doyle and includes Booker Prize-longlisted novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, writer, broadcaster, and literary critic Chris Power, award-winning actor, producer, publisher and businesswoman Sarah Jessica Parker, and New York Times bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author Kiley Reid. The 2025 judging panel will be looking for the best work of fiction, selected from entries published in the UK or Ireland between October 1, 2024 and September 30 2025.

Image credit: The Booker Prize 2025 judges photographed at Fortnum & Mason in London © Neo Gilder for Booker Prize Foundation

Meet the judges

Booker Prize 2025 Chair of judges Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle interview: ‘When I’m really enjoying a book, I stop taking notes’

Roddy Doyle, Chair of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, shares his idea for a dream book club and reveals the fictional character he feels he has known his whole life

Ayòbámi Adébáyò is sitting on a green sofa

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ interview: ‘It’s a delight to share the joy of discovering great writing with other people’

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, shares how discussions expand her reading experience and her favourite Booker Prize novels

Sarah Jessica Parker sitting on a green sofa

Sarah Jessica Parker interview: ‘I never leave home without a book’

Sarah Jessica Parker, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses why she’s started to read with a different kind of energy and which Booker Prize book is the most wildly painful to read

Chris Power sitting on a green velvet sofa

Chris Power interview: ‘I’ve read 150 books in seven months yet still spend too much time doomscrolling’

Chris Power, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, discusses how Tolkien ignited his love of fiction and how reading as part of a group can be transformative

Kiley Reid interview: ‘I love stories that don’t feel rushed and refuse to hold your hand’

Kiley Reid, one of the Booker Prize 2025 judges, tells us about the stories that sparked her imagination as a child, and why she likes to make books compete against one another