Read extracts from the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist
The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist provides a feast of fiction from around the world. Whet your appetite with an extract from the opening chapter of each book
From desire and disability to the overnight disappearance of Palestinian people; from a tragedy in the English Channel to a 20th-century queer classic; from stories spanning thousands of years to a single, constantly-repeating day – the longlist features 13 books that are, in the words of Max Porter, Chair of the 2025 judges, ‘from everywhere, for everyone’. Read an extract from each of them here.
