Know about the books longlisted for Booker Prize 2025
Team L&M
The longlist for the Booker Prize 2025, one of the most prestigious international literary honours, has been officially announced. This year’s list is a powerful reflection of literary brilliance, featuring 13 exceptional novels that delve deep into themes of identity, memory, desire, displacement, and resilience.
The shortlist of six will be announced on September 23 with the winner revealed at the ceremony in London on November 10 this year.
Love Forms Written by Claire Adam
Love Forms is a powerfully moving story of a woman in search of herself—a novel that rings with heartfelt empathy through the passages of a mother’s life, depicting the enduring bonds of love, family, and home.
Universality by Natasha Brown
A thrilling novel from one of the most acclaimed young novelists working today, Universality is a compelling, unsettling celebration of the spectacular, appalling force of language. It dares you to look away.
One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from post-war Japan to suburban America and the North Korean regime.
Audition by Katie Kitamura
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
Pitch perfect, quietly exhilarating and moving, The Rest of Our Lives is a novel about family, marriage and those moments which may come to define us.
Flesh by David Szalay
Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.
Sea-scraper by Benjamin Wood
Haunting and timeless, this is the story of a young man hemmed in by his circumstances, striving to achieve fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
Ruminative and propulsive, Ledia Xhoga’s debut novel Misinterpretation interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is an An epic love story following two Indians navigating lives between the United States and India, the novel explores themes of tradition, displacement, family bonds, race, class, and identity. At 667 pages, it is the longest book on this year’s longlist.
