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'Brilliantly human': the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

The Booker Prize is the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction. Featuring both classical storytelling and novels that push the boundaries of narrative form, this year's shortlist is preoccupied with the ties that bind families together. The characters navigate familiar domestic situations: the power dynamic shifts between parents and their children, marriages come adrift, families reckon with the weight of their own history, and individuals perform the roles others expect them to play.

Together, the shortlisted books transport readers from Hungary to Japan, from Italy to the US, from India to England, and feature often rootless characters far from the places they once called home. The books take place over vastly differing time spans: some over the course of just a few days or weeks; others over several decades.

We're giving away this year's Booker Prize shortlist, so one lucky reader will enjoy these world-class books this autumn and beyond. 

The full shortlist is:

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
Flesh by David Szalay

The Booker Prize 2025 winner will be announced on the evening of Monday 10th November and broadcast in a special edition of BBC Radio 4's Front Row.

‘... 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, Chair of the 2025 judges

Find out more about the shortlisted books and authors at thebookerprizes.com.