The Booker longlist has been announced, featuring 13 titles that make up the so-called ‘Booker dozen’. The longlist features five British authors, while also encapsulating a vast range of global experiences. The 13 novels transport readers to a farm in southern Malaysia, a Hungarian housing estate and a small coastal town in Greece. They shine a light on the lives of Koreans in postcolonial Japan, a homesick Indian in snowy Vermont, a Kosovar torture survivor living in New York, a shrimp fisherman in the north of England, a mother’s search for a child given up for adoption in Venezuela and even endangered snails in contemporary Ukraine. They reimagine the great American road trip as a slow-burning midlife crisis, taking us into the heart of the UK’s coldest winter.
The full list is as follows:
The 2025 Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist
| Author | Author Nationality | Title | UK and/or Irish Publisher / Imprint |
| Claire Adam | Trinidadian | Love Farms | Faber |
| Tash Aw | Malaysian | The South | HarperCollins / 4th Estate |
| Natasha Brown | British | Universality | Faber |
| Jonathan Buckley | British | One Boat | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Susan Choi | American | Flashlight | Penguin Random House / Jonathan Cape |
| Kiran Desai | Indian | The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | Penguin Random House / Hamish Hamilton |
| Katie Kitamura | American | Audition | Fern Press |
| Ben Markovits | American | The Rest of Our Lives | Faber |
| Andrew Miller | British | The Land in Winter | Hachette / Hodder & Stoughton / Sceptre |
| Maria Reva | Canadian-Ukrainian | Endling | Hachette / Virago |
| David Szalay | Hungarian-British | Flesh | Penguin Random House / Jonathan Cape |
| Benjamin Wood | British | Seascraper | Penguin Random House / Viking |
| Ledia Xhoga | Albanian-American | Misinterpretation | Daunt Books Publishing Originals |
The longlist has been selected by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by critically acclaimed writer and 1993 Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle.
Doyle, who is the first Booker Prize winner to chair the panel, is joined by Booker Prize-longlisted novelist Ayobami Adebayo, award-winning actor, producer and publisher Sarah Jessica Parker; writer, broadcaster and literary critic Chris Power; and New York Times bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author Kiley Reid.
This year’s selection, which was chosen from 153 submissions, celebrates the best works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.
For the first time, the shortlist of six books will be announced at a public event to be held at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London on Tuesday, 23 September 2025. The six shortlisted authors will each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book. The announcement of the winning book will take place on Monday, 10 November 2025 at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London. The announcement will be livestreamed on the Booker Prizes’ channels. The winner receives £50,000.
