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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 Here's the 2025 Booker Prize longlist. Image © Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation. The longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize —arguably the most prestigious award for a single work of fiction published in the UK—was announced today. 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. Max Porter, International Booker Prize 2025 Chair of judges, says: ‘ Heart Lamp is something genuinely new for English readers. A radical translation which ruffles language, to create new textures in a plurality of Englishes. It challenges and expands our understanding of translation. These beautiful, busy, life-affirming stories rise from Kannada, interspersed with the extraordinary socio-political richness of other languages and dialects. It speaks of women’s lives, reproductive rights ...
