Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

Discover the Best English-Language Literary Fiction of the Year

Curious to know which novels stand out as the most remarkable works of contemporary English literature? Each year, the Booker Prize showcases the most exciting and innovative authors, and the 2025 list is no exception. Established in 1969, the prize has consistently highlighted the finest achievements in prose, and this year’s selection — chosen by a panel of distinguished judges (Roddy Doyle, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power, and Kiley Reid) — continues that tradition.

In this week’s list, we feature all 6 shortlisted titles for the Booker Prize 2025, giving readers the chance to discover the novels that are capturing the literary world’s imagination.

Among them: Flesh (by David Szalay), partly drawing on Hungarian roots, is a propulsive, hypnotic novel about desire, transformation, and the forces shaping our lives. The Rest of Our Lives (by Ben Markovits) offers a quietly moving “road movie” about marriage, aging, and life’s defining moments. The Land in Winter (by Andrew Miller) delivers a masterful, page-turning chronicle of love, secrets, and survival in a blizzard-stricken English countryside. Audition (by Katie Kitamura) is a brilliantly constructed tale that questions whether we truly know the people closest to us. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (by Kiran Desai) is a sweeping, ambitious epic of love, family, and modern alienation across India and America. Flashlight (by Susan Choi) spans continents and generations in a powerful story about memory, identity, and one family’s entanglement with 20th-century history.

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