In this heart-aching novel, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago
By Claire Adam
Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist should you read first?
From experimental form to narrative surprises, this year’s longlisted books are definitely worth talking about
This year’s longlist transports readers around the world, highlighting a range of global experiences. They examine identity and stir up long-held secrets, with the list including a range of established voices, as well as a previous Booker Prize winner. Take our quiz and find out which one you should read first.
The Booker Prize 2025 longlist
Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat grapples with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility
A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family
By Susan Choi
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
By Kiran Desai
An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love
An unforgettable road trip of a novel about a middle-aged academic whose marriage, career and body are failing him
A masterful, page-turning examination of the minutiae of life and a dazzling chronicle of the human heart
An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine
By Maria Reva
Flesh is the winner of the Booker Prize 2025. A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp
By David Szalay
A mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment
Ledia Xhoga’s ruminative debut novel interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation
By Ledia Xhoga
