The 2025 Booker Prize | Longlist

13 bøker har fått plass på årets langliste:

* Love Forms by Claire Adam

* The South by Tash Aw

* Universality  by Natasha Brown

* One Boat by Jonathan Buckley 

* Flashlight by Susan Choi

* The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny  by Kiran Desai

* Audition by Katie Kitamura 

* The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

* The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

* Endling by Maria Reva 

* Flesh by David Szalay

* Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

* Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga 

Sakset frå Bookers nettside:

The ‘Booker Dozen’ features five British authors, while also encapsulating a vast range of global experiences. The 13 novels transport readers to a farm in southern Malaysia, a Hungarian housing estate and a small coastal town in Greece. They shine a light on the lives of Koreans in postcolonial Japan, a homesick Indian in snowy Vermont, a Kosovar torture survivor living in New York, a shrimp fisherman in the north of England, a mother’s search for a child given up for adoption in Venezuela and even endangered snails in contemporary Ukraine. They reimagine the great American road trip as a slow-burning mid-life crisis and take us into the heart of the UK’s coldest winter. 

The judges’ selection features: 

• Authors representing nine nationalities across four continents, with UK authors securing the highest number of nominations  
• Kiran Desai, who is nominated 19 years after her previous book won the Booker Prize 
• Tash Aw, longlisted for a third time, who could become the first Malaysian winner 
• Past shortlistees Andrew Miller and David Szalay  
• Two debut novelists among nine authors who appear on the Booker Prize longlist for the first time 
• The first novel from an opera librettist and the 12th from a former professional basketball player 
• A book that first garnered acclaim as a short story, and one that is the first in a proposed quartet Three titles from independent publisher Faber and a first Booker longlisting for Fitzcarraldo Editions, to add to its 16 International Booker Prize nominations  
• Novels that are ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’ which ‘examine the past and poke at our shaky present’, according to Roddy Doyle, Chair of the 2025 judges

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