Win the 2025 Booker Prize Longlist

Every year, the Booker Prize longlist introduces readers to 13 of the most powerful and imaginative works of fiction being written today. This year, one reader will have the chance to experience them all — in a single prize.

The Booker Prize Foundation is offering an exclusive competition to win the complete 2025 longlist: all 13 novels, chosen by the judges from hundreds of submissions, gathered into one extraordinary collection.

To own the full longlist is to hold a snapshot of contemporary literature. These books reflect the urgent questions of our age — identity, belonging, technology, migration, climate futures — while also reminding us of fiction’s timeless ability to surprise, move and transform. From celebrated voices like Kiran Desai, returning to the Booker stage after nearly two decades, to daring debut novelists, the set is a library of worlds waiting to be discovered.

The competition offers more than a chance to read; it offers a chance to join the conversation. Readers everywhere are debating the merits of the longlist, predicting the shortlist, and speculating on the eventual winner. With the full set in hand, one reader will be able to journey alongside the judges, comparing, questioning and celebrating the novels as the prize unfolds.

The shortlist of six books will be announced on 23 September 2025, with the overall winner revealed on 10 November 2025 at Old Billingsgate in London. But for the competition winner, the journey begins now — with thirteen novels that capture the imagination of the world.

In offering this prize, the Booker Prize affirms its belief that literature is for everyone: not confined to panel discussions or prize ceremonies, but alive in the hands of readers. To win the 2025 longlist is to become part of a tradition of discovery, debate and delight — the very spirit of the Booker Prize.