The 13 finalists for the 2025 Booker Prize have been announced. Culled from 153 total nominations, the titles comprise novels published in English in the U.K. or Ireland, and represent the “highest number of different nationalities we’ve seen on a Booker Prize longlist for a decade,” according to Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation. This year, the list includes authors of nine different nationalities and nine first-time longlisters, two of whom are debut novelists.

The longlist was selected by a panel of judges comprising Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power, and Kiley Reid, and chaired by Roddy Doyle, a 1993 Booker recipient. Five slots went to British authors, the most of any nationality but a smaller share than in recent years. Three American authors are represented, which is also reduced from last year’s six. On the publisher side, indie press Faber & Faber scored spots on the list for three of its titles.

In the announcement, Doyle remarked on the variety of the longlist: “There are short novels and some very long ones. There are novels that experiment with form and others that do so less obviously.... All, somehow, examine identity, individual or national, and all, I think, are gripping and excellent.”

The complete longlist is below.

  • Love Forms (Hogarth) by Claire Adam (Trinidadian)
  • The South (FSG) by Tash Aw (Malaysian)
  • Universality (Random House) by Natasha Brown (British)
  • One Boat (Fitzcarraldo, U.K. edition) by Jonathan Buckley (British)
  • Flashlight (FSG) by Susan Choi (American)
  • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Hogarth) by Kiran Desai (Indian)
  • Audition (Riverhead) by Katie Kitamura (American)
  • The Rest of Our Lives (Faber & Faber, U.K. edition) by Ben Markovits (American)
  • The Land in Winter (Sceptre, U.K. edition) by Andrew Miller (British)
  • Endling (Doubleday) by Maria Reva (Canadian-Ukrainian)
  • Flesh (Scribner) by David Szalay (Hungarian-British)
  • Seascraper (Viking) by Benjamin Wood (British)
  • Misinterpretation (Tin House) by Ledia Xhoga (Albanian-American)

The shortlist announcement will take place at 7:30 p.m. BST on September 23, at London’s Royal Festival Hall; the winner will be announced on Monday, Nov. 10 at a private reception. In addition to a significant increase in global sales, the winning author will take home £50,000.