The Booker Longlist for 2025 has been announced!

Celebrating the best of fiction written in English, the Booker Longlist has landed for 2025. Explore the titles on the Longlist below!

The longlist for the Booker Prize 2025 has been announced, and features a previous winner plus two debut novelists. The list has been selected by a 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 Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀; 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 announcement of the winning book  will take place on Monday, 10 November 2025 at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London.