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The Booker Prize 2025 longlist of 13 books, displayed artfully on a desk
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Quiz: Which book from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist should you read first?

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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

Love Forms by Claire Adam
In this heart-aching novel, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago
The South by Tash Aw
A radiant novel about family, desire and what we inherit, and the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer
One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat grapples with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility
Flashlight by Susan Choi
A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family
Audition by Katie Kitamura
An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love
Endling by Maria Reva
An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine
Flesh by David Szalay
Prize winner
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
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
A mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
Ledia Xhoga’s ruminative debut novel interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation

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