The Book Prize Shortlist 2025

The Booker Prize Shortlist is here!

The shortlist for 2025 contains one previous winner and three authors that have been shortlisted for the very first time.

"All of the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual trying to live with – to love, to seek attention from, to cope with, to understand, to keep at bay, to tolerate, to escape from – other people. In other words, they are all brilliantly written and they are all brilliantly human." — Roddy Doyle.

The books are:

1. Audition, Katie Kitamura
2. Flashlight, Susan Choi
3. Flesh, David Szalay
4. The Land in Winter, Andrew Miller
5. The Rest of Our Lives, Benjamin Markovits
6. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai (previous winner, 2006).