Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career.

The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors. Both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership and can expect a dramatic increase in book sales.

The ‘Booker Dozen’ of 12 or 13 books will be announced on 26 July 2025, with the shortlist of six books to follow on 23 September. The winner of the Booker Prize 2025 will be announced on 10 November, with the winner receiving £50,000, as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors.

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The Booker Prize 2025 longlist

• Love Forms by Claire Adam

• The South by Tash Aw

• Universality  by Natasha Brown

• One Boat by Jonathan Buckley 

• Flashlight by Susan Choi

• The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny  by Kiran Desai

• Audition by Katie Kitamura 

• The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

• The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

• Endling by Maria Reva 

• Flesh by David Szalay

• Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

• Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga