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We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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Watch Rory Kinnear read from The Rest of Our Lives, the #BookerPrize2025 shortlisted novel by Ben Markovits.

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Rory Kinnear reads from The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits | The Booker Prize

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Watch Gabrielle Creevy read from Flashlight, the #BookerPrize2025 shortlisted novel by Susan Choi.

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Watch Stormzy read from Flesh, the #BookerPrize2025 shortlisted novel by David Szalay.

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Stormzy reads from Flesh by David Szalay | The Booker Prize

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Can you match the performer to the book? 👀

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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?

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The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist films, coming soon. ⁠🎬🎞️
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Whilst you wait, catch up on all our previous films. Which has been your favourite to date?
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Shortlist films

Watch actors performing extracts from shortlisted Booker and International Booker books.

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Roddy Doyle, Chair of judges, on returning back to normal life after reading 153 books as part of the Booker Prize judging process.

This clip was extracted from the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist livestream and is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre.

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This week marks 40 years since The Handmaid’s Tale was published.
Still chilling. Still relevant. Still a phenomenon.
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Monthly Spotlight: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | The Booker Prizes

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1986, The Handmaid’s Tale is the dystopian novel that became a phenomenon

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Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for October: The Riders by Tim Winton.

Discover an exclusive interview, reading guide, competition and more ⤵️

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Monthly Spotlight: The Riders by Tim Winton | The Booker Prizes

Tim Winton’s 1995 shortlisted novel features a desperate man’s attempts to find his missing wife as he journeys across Europe

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Which one has been your favourite so far?

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📖 Sample the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist with extracts from each book.

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Read extracts from the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist | The Booker Prizes

A selection of six extraordinary books that encapsulate a wide range of global experiences

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Upcoming events 📆

〰️ The Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist at The Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival

〰️ Booker Prize Shortlist Readings at the Royal Festival Hall, London

〰️ Meet the Booker Prize 2025 Winner at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle

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Events: What’s on and dates for your diary | The Booker Prizes

From intimate gatherings to bustling festivals, book readings to interviews, we celebrate the finest in fiction at these UK events featuring Booker authors

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A Monday morning question: which book(s) did you spend your weekend with?

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Coming soon...

〰️ Interviews with the shortlisted authors
〰️ Our quiz to help find your perfect shortlisted book

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Earlier this week, we announced the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist during our wonderful event at the Southbank Centre.

Find out more about this year's shortlist ⤵️
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The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes

The shortlist for the Booker Prize 2025 has been announced, featuring a previous winner and three authors shortlisted for the first time

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 11d

The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is here, and to celebrate we're giving you the chance to win a set of all six books and stationery from @presentcorrect.bsky.social 📚👀

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Win the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, plus stylish stationery from Present & Correct | The Booker Prizes

We’re offering you the chance to win a set of all six books on the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, along with a gorgeous selection of stationery from Present & Correct

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Flesh, by David Szalay, follows ’a man remarkably detached from his body and desires, and while he rises in class strata and leaves his home in Hungary for London, he is regretfully followed by his past.’

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The Land in Winter, by Andrew Miller, ‘is about the tensions within marriage and other relationships and those tensions are the same today as they were back then.’

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The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits, is ‘is a basketball novel, a family saga, a book about sickness, and structurally, a road trip chronicle’.

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Audition, by Katie Kitamura, is ‘a brilliantly tense, taut novel that sees a woman have her life turned inside out... a book that dissolves the border between public performance and private feeling.’

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, by Kiran Desai, is ‘a truly unforgettable epic, one rich in meditations about class, race, nationhood and the titular loneliness’.

Find out more about this #BookerPrize2025 shortlisted book: https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/thi5h4bdnl

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Flashlight, by Susan Choi, is a ‘globetrotting adventure, family drama, academic satire, a bildungsroman, a geopolitical thriller [and covers] fascinating episodes from history’.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 14d

A huge thank you to our incredible #BookerPrize2025 judging panel: Roddy Doyle, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Sarah Jessica Parker, Chris Power and Kiley Reid.

Here's what they had to say about the books on this year's shortlist.

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 14d

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it. ❤️

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