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The Booker Prize 2025

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The Booker Prize 2025

The 2025 Booker Prize has been awarded to David Szalay for his novel, FLESH. A collection of intimate moments over the course of decades, the book chronicles a man at odds with himself --- estranged from and by the circumstances and demands of a life not entirely under his control and the roles that he is asked to play. Click here to read more about David Szalay, who is the first Hungarian-British author to win the award, and FLESH, which Roddy Doyle, Chair of the judges, calls "an extraordinary, singular novel --- a dark book that is a joy to read."

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2025 Winner
 

  • FLESH by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)
     


2025 Shortlist
 

  • FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape)  
  • THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)  
  • AUDITION by Katie Kitamura (Fern Press)  
  • THE REST OF OUR LIVES by Ben Markovits (Faber)  
  • THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)  
  • FLESH by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)
     


2025 Longlist
 

  • LOVE FORMS by Claire Adam (Faber)  
  • THE SOUTH by Tash Aw (4th Estate)  
  • UNIVERSALITY by Natasha Brown (Faber)  
  • ONE BOAT by Jonathan Buckley (Fitzcarraldo Editions)  
  • FLASHLIGHT by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape)  
  • THE LONELINESS OF SONIA AND SUNNY by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)  
  • AUDITION by Katie Kitamura (Fern Press)  
  • THE REST OF OUR LIVES by Ben Markovits (Faber)  
  • THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)  
  • ENDLING by Maria Reva (Virago/Little, Brown)  
  • FLESH by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)  
  • SEASCRAPER by Benjamin Wood (Viking)  
  • MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga (Daunt Books Originals)