The Booker Prize 2025 Longlist
- Allen & Unwin
- Jul 31
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 5
A rundown of our books included on The Booker Prize 2025 Longlist that you should be checking out!
We're so thrilled to share that 5 books from our amazing overseas cousins have made The Booker Prize 2025 Longlist! So, have a pen and your TBR list handy, because these 5 books certainly need a spot on it!
Misinterpretation
by Ledia Xhoga
In New York City, an Albanian interpreter is drawn into the traumas of her clients, unraveling her own buried past and putting her marriage, sanity, and sense of reality at risk.
The Rest of Our Lives
by Benjamin Markovits
While driving his daughter to college, Tom Layward remembers his long-held plan to leave his unfaithful wife, and sets off on a cross-country journey to confront ghosts of his past, all while hiding his health problems and a suspension from work.
Universality
by Natasha Brown
After a man is bludgeoned with a gold bar on a Yorkshire farm, a sharp young journalist unravels a web of power, ideology, and deceit. But she then finds her viral exposé raises more unsettling questions than it answers.
One Boat
by Jonathan Buckley
Grieving her father's death, Teresa returns to a quiet Greek coastal town where past and present intertwine, prompting deep reflection on identity, memory, and the ties that bind us to others and ourselves.
Love Forms
by Claire Adam
In 1980s Trinidad, Dawn Bishop leaves her newborn daughter with nuns in Venezuela and builds a new life abroad, only to face the emotional upheaval decades later when a woman claiming to be her long-lost child reaches out online.
The shortlist will be announced on the 23rd of September and the winner on the 10th of November.
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