Enjoy extracts from the novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 – a selection of six extraordinary books that encapsulate a wide range of global experiences
Six ‘brilliantly written’ and ‘brilliantly human’ novels make up this year’s Booker Prize shortlist. As Roddy Doyle – Chair of the Booker Prize 2025 judges – says, the books have two big things in common:
‘Their authors are in total command of their own store of English, their own rhythm, their own expertise; they have each crafted a novel that no one else could have written.
‘And all of the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual trying to live with – to love, to seek attention from, to cope with, to understand, to keep at bay, to tolerate, to escape from – other people.’
You can read an extract from all the books on the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist here. 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.
