International Booker Prize Longlist 2025
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The International Booker longlist has been announced! There was a palpable buzz in the shop when Gayle read out the names. The works are unusually compact: of the 13, only 2 break the 250-page mark (the exception is Mircea Cărtărescu’s whopping Solenoid); and a majority of the authors are nominated for their first English-language publication. The judges, chaired by Max Porter, now have the unenviable task of whittling down a shortlist, which will be announced on Tuesday 8 April.
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Translated from French by Mark HutchinsonA Leopard-Skin Hat may be Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a ‘masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,’ it is the story of an intense friendship…
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Translated by Daniel BowlesLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025A jaded journalist takes his spiky mother and her ill-gotten wealth on a road trip in this tragicomic and absurd novel'Odd and evocative, a frolicking…
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Translated by Deepa BhasthiLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.…
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Translated by Polly BartonLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025The award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon. An extraordinary, thrilling novel about sex, disability and power'A must-read debut. Funny and frank, this book…
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Translated by Lucy ScottLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025Finalist, National Book Award for Translated LiteratureWinner, Dutch Literature PrizeWinner, P. C. Hooft Award“Roemer makes her English-language debut…
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Translated by Barbara J. HavelandLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025The first volume of the poetic, page-turning masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time.'A total explosion.' Nicole…
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Translated by Sophie Hughes With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of…
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Translated by Heather Cleary & Julia SanchesLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico.Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta…
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Translated by Helen StevensonIntroduced by Jeremy HardingLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death…
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Translated by Sean CotterLonglisted for the International Booker PrizeBased on Cărtărescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential…
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Translated by Sinan AntoonLonglisted for the International Booker PrizeAlaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland after the Nakba. Ariel, Alaa’s…
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Translated by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-LoubertLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025The name Dessaintes is one to reckon with. A bombastic, violent and increasingly dangerous clan, little do they know…
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Translated by Asa YonedaLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025An inventive and immersive novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction - from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.In the distant…
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