The 2025 Booker Prize Longlist Has Arrived!

"An exhilarating, destabilising novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love."

"A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family."

"A radiant novel about family, desire and what we inherit, and the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer."

A twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power."

"Ledia Xhoga’s ruminative debut novel interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation."

"An unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine."

"A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists."

"In this heart-aching novel, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago."

"A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp."

"Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat grapples with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility."