Booker Prize Longlist 2025
I got out of my reading slump just in time for the Booker longlist to be announced, which is very exciting. It turns out that I've already read one of the books on the list (and for some reason hadn't posted about it on this blog, which I've just fixed) and I've had a few of the other titles sitting on my TBR for a while, so it seems like my efforts to be more clued-up about what's happening in literary fiction have been working.
Here's the longlist:
- Misinterpretation - Ledia Xhoga
- Seascraper - Benjamin Wood
- Flesh - David Szalay
- Endling - Maria Reva
- The Land In Winter - Andrew Miller
- The Rest of Our Lives - Ben Markovits
- Audition - Katie Mitamura
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai
- Flashlight - Susan Choi
- One Boat - Jonathan Buckley
- Universality - Natasha Brown
- The South - Tash Aw
- Love Forms - Claire Adam
I've already read Misinterpretation and enjoyed it, and I've been meaning to get around to Audition and Universality for a few months. Universality in particular I tried to get an ARC of a few times last year to no avail, so I'm really looking forward to actually reading that one.
Jonathan Buckley's Tell was listed for the Goldsmith's Prize last year and I never got around to reading it. Seeing him on the Booker longlist this year makes me regret not having read it, so I may prioritise that book and then pick up One Boat afterwards.
As for the other books on the longlist, I really like the sound of Flesh, Endling, The Land In Winter, and Flashlight. Interestingly there's no Irish fiction on the longlist this year, which is unusual, but it also seems to be a much more global list than in previous years. I'm looking forward ot digging in to these books!