Announcement from NPR

Booker Prize longlist

July 29, 20259:00 AM ET

Andrew Limbong

The Booker Prize is a prestigious award given to fiction written in English and published in the U.K. and Ireland. The winner receives £50,000 (about $66,000). The winner will be announced on Nov. 10 at a livestreamed ceremony in London.

Book covers of Love Forms; The South; Universality; One Boat; Flashlight; The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny; Audition; The Rest of Our Lives; The Land in Winter; Endling; Flesh; Seascraper; Misinterpretation

Here’s the full list:

  • 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