Booker prize 2025: The Best Novels of 2025

The Best Novels of 2025 : The Booker Prize Shortlist recommended by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year’s Booker Prize panel, about their 2025 shortlist: a varied line-up of six novels, from a work of historical fiction set in a frozen rural England to an experimental ‘Rorschach blot’ of a novel told in two conflicting parts. Interview by Cal Flyn, Deputy Editor The 2025 longlist for the International Booker Prize , the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, is announced today, Tuesday, 25 February The 2025 Booker Prize is a literary award worth £50,000 given for the best English-language novel published between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025 in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. Inside the 2025 Booker Prize longlist: A reader’s guide Spanning nine nationalities and four continents, the 13 novels that make up the 2025 " Booker Dozen" trace fault lines both personal and political across war zones, classrooms, and intergenerational silences.