The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist of six books, displayed artfully on a desk

Discover our reading guides for the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

Whether you’re new to the shortlist and wondering where to start, or would like to explore it more deeply, our guides are packed with insights and discussion points

The winner of the Booker Prize 2025 will be announced on Monday, 10 November at a ceremony in London, and the winning author will receive £50,000.

Published September 23, 2025

Reading guide: Flashlight by Susan Choi

Thrilling and moving, Flashlight mines questions of memory, language and identity through the astonishing story of a family swept up in the tides of 20th-century history

Reading guide: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity

Reading guide: Audition by Katie Kitamura

An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love

Reading guide: The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

An unforgettable road trip of a novel about a middle-aged academic whose marriage, career and body are failing him

Reading guide: The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

An atmospheric novel set during a famously freezing 1960s winter, The Land in Winter explores the minutiae of married life through the interior lives of two couples

Reading guide: Flesh by David Szalay

Flesh is the winner of the Booker Prize 2025. A spare but propulsive novel, Flesh follows a man from adolescence to old age as he is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp