The Booker Prize revealed its 2025 longlist, with 13 books in the running for the British literary award given annually to “the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the U.K. and Ireland.”
Kiran Desai made the longlist for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny; she won the Booker Prize in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss. Two authors who were previously shortlisted for the award were also longlisted this year: Andrew Miller for The Land in Winter and David Szalay for Flesh.
Four American authors were nominated for the prize: Susan Choi for Flashlight, Katie Kitamura for Audition, Ben Markovits for The Rest of Our Lives, and Ledia Xhoga for Misinterpretation.
Claire Adams was longlisted for Love Forms, alongside Tash Aw for The South, Natasha Brown for Universality, Jonathan Buckley for One Boat, Maria Reva for Endling, and Benjamin Wood for Seascraper.
The judging panel for this year’s prize was composed of authors Roddy Doyle, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Kiley Reid, Chris Power, and actor Sarah Jessica Parker.
The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969. Previous winners include Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children, Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things, and Paul Beatty for The Sellout.
The shortlist for this year’s award will be revealed on September 23, with the winner revealed at a ceremony in London on November 10.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
