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The longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize is here, and it’s packed with titles that have been seeing some buzz already this year.
The Booker Prize honors the best work of fiction written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland annually. It began in 1969, and has become an honor that can catapult a book and author’s career. The winner of the Booker Prize takes home £50,000, or about $67,000.
Five judges comprise the panel that determines the finalists for the prize. They include authors, publishers, journalists, politicians, artists, and more. Books published between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025, are eligible, and this time frame starts to hint at the kinds of books we might begin to see making “best of” and other honor lists throughout the rest of the year.
This year’s longlist has 13 titles, selected from over 150 submissions. Books come from four continents and nine different countries, including Albania, Canada, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, the UK and USA.There are two debut novelists among the longlist authors, as well as seven women authors and six male authors. On a non-literary note, but one perhaps indicative of literary trends, is that seven of the longlisted titles are only one word long.
Here’s the Booker Prize 2025 longlist:
The Booker Prize shortlist will narrow the field down to six titles and will be announced on September 23. The winner will be announced November 10.
Learn more about each of the longlist titles, including interesting commonalities among them, previous awards won by the authors, and more, at the Booker Prize website.
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