2025 Booker Prize List. A selection of 13 “timely and timeless” books that “navigate what it means to belong, to be displaced and to return” have been longlisted for the 2025 booker prize. Last night at a ceremony in somerset house, london, six authors were awarded £2,500, a specially bound edition of their books, and a place on the 2025 booker prize shortlist.
‘the six books shortlisted for the international booker prize 2025 cast a forensic eye on divided families and divided societies, revisiting pasts both recent and distant to help make. The 2025 long list (best 13 books) was announced on july 30, 2025.