Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist Announced: Six Novels Compete for £50,000

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist was announced on September 23 by jury chair Roddy Doyle, featuring six novels: Susan Choi's Flashlight, Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Katie Kitamura's Audition, Ben Markovits's The Rest of Our Lives, Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter, and David Szalay's Flesh. The winner will be revealed on November 10. The jury also includes Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power, Kiley Reid, and Sarah Jessica Parker. The prize carries £50,000 and is open to long-form fiction published in the UK or Ireland between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025. This year's shortlist features no debut authors; several finalists are previous nominees or winners, including Kiran Desai, who won the Booker in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss. The novels span settings from Hungary to Japan, Venice to New York, India to rural England, exploring themes of immigration, family dynamics, and personal identity.