2025 Booker Prize Shortlist

The 2025 Booker Prize celebrates works of long-form fiction written in English, published in the UK and Ireland between October 2024 and September 2025. This particular shortlist for the prestigious award features one previous Booker Prize winner (Kiran Desai, who won for The Inheritance of Loss in 2006) as well as three authors shortlisted for the first time.