Read extracts from the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

In the first part of Solvej Balle’s epic septology, Tara Selter has slipped out of time. Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November

November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?

An inventive and immersive speculative novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction – from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo

A taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence – scathing and affecting in equal measure

In 12 stories, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India

The story of an intense friendship between the narrator and his close childhood friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders