The 2025 'Booker Dozen' was announced on Tuesday the 29th July. This year's longlist of 13 books was chosen from 153 submissions and feature five British authors and also transports readers through a vast range of global experiences. From a farm in southern Malaysia and the lives of Koreans in postcolonial Japan to a small coastal town in Greece and shrimp fisherman in the north of England. 

This year's longlist includes Kiran Desai, who receives a nomination 19 years after previously winning the Booker Prize. The Booker Prize 2025 longlist also includes Tash Aw, who is longlisted for a third time and Andrew Miller and David Szalay who are past shortlistees. There are two debut novelists featured in this year's longlist among nine authors who have received their first Booker Prize nod. 

The Booker Prize 2025 Judges

This year's Booker Prize longlist has been selected by the 2025 judging panel which is chaired by Roddy Doyle, the critically acclaimed writer who claimed the Booker Prize in 1993. Doyle is the first Booker Prize winner to chair the panel. Joining Doyle in this year's panel of judges are Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Booker Prize longlisted novelist; Sarah Jessica Parker, award-winning actor, producer and publisher; writer, broadcaster and literary critic Chris Power; and Kiley Reid, the New York Times bestselling and Book Prize-longlisted author. 

What is the Booker Prize?

The Booker Prize is regarded as the leading literary award in the English-speaking world. Celebrating the best works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and / or Ireland. It was first awarded in 1969 and has highlighted, recognised and rewarded outstanding fiction for more than five decades. The authors that are celebrated in the longlists and shortlists for the Booker Prize gain an increased profile which leads to global readerships and an increase in sales. The winners of the Booker Prize receive £50,000 and can see their entire career transformed as a result. 

Last Year's winner was Orbital by Samantha Harvey. The week after the win was announced in November 2024, the book sold over 20,000 print copies in the UK. This was the fastest selling Booker Prize winner since records began and an example of how powerful the Book Prize can be.

There is also the International Booker Prize which works to recognise the vital work of translation in publishing. The International Booker Prize for 2025 has been announced, and was won by Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi.

The full Booker Prize 2025 longlist

The longlisted books range in length and themes. Moving through continents and time and focusing on a themes such as identity, the affect of the political on the personal, generational secrets that bind families, the shaky nature of truth and the unknowability of those we love. 

Meet the 2025 Longlist now:

Love Forms by Claire Adam

The South by Tash Aw

Universality by Natasha Brown

One Boat by Jonathan Buckley

Flashlight by Susan Choi

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Audition by Katie Kitamura

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Endling by Maria Reva

Flesh by David Szalay

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga

Key Dates for the Booker Prize 2025

The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday the 23rd September at a public event for the first time this year, taking place at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London.

The Booker Prize 2025 winner will be announced on Monday 10th November 2025 at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London. The announcement will also be livestreamed by the Book Prizes' channels. 

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