Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 longlist
From a vast range of global experiences to books brimming with long-held secrets, from fresh voices to Booker Prize alumni, here’s the lowdown on this year’s longlist

Competition
We’re offering you the chance to win a set of Booker Prize 2025 longlist titles, a bounteous Fortnum & Mason hamper, and stylish stationery from Choosing Keeping
This competition is now closed.
To celebrate the announcement of the Booker Prize 2025 longlist, we are launching our biggest ever competition. Not only do we have five full sets of the longlist to give away, one overall winner will also receive a luxurious Fortnum & Mason hamper worth £260, a selection of beautiful Choosing Keeping stationery worth over £100, and a limited-edition, money-can’t-buy Booker Prize tote bag. Our four runners-up will each win the 13 longlisted titles and a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.
Our top prize comprises the following:
1 x set of all 13 books on the Booker Prize 2025 longlist
1 x The Burlington Fortnum & Mason Hamper
1 x Choosing Keeping ‘Book on Book’ Extra-Thick Composition Notebook, Ruled
1 x Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen in Burgundy, Medium Nib
1 x Pack of 6 Kaweco Cartridges, Royal Blue
1 x Choosing Keeping Retro Watercolour Set, 1930’s
1 x Brass Travel Paintbrush
1 x limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag
Fortnum & Mason, the world’s most famous cornershop, is generously hosting this year’s Booker Prize judging panel at its flagship London Piccadilly store for their key judging meetings. The longlist was decided in the Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon’s Drawing Room.
Stationery from Choosing Keeping, which has a shop on Tower Street, London, near Covent Garden, can be seen in the new Booker Prize 2025 campaign, ‘Fiction worth talking about’.
Each year the Booker Prize introduces readers to the best sustained works of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
As Roddy Doyle, Chair of this year’s judging panel, says: ‘The 13 longlisted novels bring the reader to Hungary, Albania, the north of England, Malaysia, Ukraine, Korea, London, New York, Trinidad and Greece, India and the West Country. There are novels that experiment with form and others that do so less obviously. Some of them examine the past and others poke at our shaky present. They are all alive with great characters and narrative surprises. All, somehow, examine identity, individual or national, and all, I think, are gripping and excellent.’
To be in with a chance of winning, simply enter your details below by 12:00 BST on Monday, 18 August, 2025. Winners will be chosen at random.
This competition is open to readers anywhere in the world. Entrants should note that one of the titles on the longlist has not yet been published and as a result, prize bundles may not be dispatched until September.
The Booker Prize 2025 longlist
© Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize FoundationThis competition is a free draw, with only one entry allowed per person, and we reserve the right to disqualify any entries where we suspect one person has used a number of different email addresses. Use or attempted use of any automated or other non-manual entry methods is prohibited.
The draw is governed by our general rules for competitions, available here, but the following specifics also apply (and take precedence should there be any contradiction or ambiguity):