Thirteen Books have been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.

The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist was announced on February 25th. For the first time in the prize’s history, each of the thirteen authors, spanning several countries, was longlisted. Last year, Jenny Erpenbeck won the prize for her book Kairos. Publishers submitted over 150 books to the International Booker Prize 2025, the highest number since the prize’s new launch format in 2016. The longlisted books consist of eleven novels and two short story collections, each chosen by the 2025 judging panel for the list. The judges include:

Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter

Prize-winning poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi

Writer and Publishing Director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal

Author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur

and Award-winning singer-songwriter Beth Orton

 The International Booker Prize 2025 Longlist are:

A Leopard-Skin Hat

 Anne Serre (Translated by Mark Hutchinson)

On a Woman’s Madness

 Astrid Roemer (Translated by Lucy Scott)

Heart Lamp

 Banu Mushtaq (Translated by Deepa Bhasthi)

Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico (Translated by Sophie Hughes)

Eurotrash

 Christian Kracht (Translated by Daniel Bowles)

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami (Translated by Asa Yoneda)

Hunchback

Saou Ichikawa (Translated by Polly Barton)

Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix (Translated by Helen Stevenson)

Reservoir Bitches

Dahlia de la Cerda (Translated by Julia SanchesHeather Cleary)

Solenoid

Mircea Cărtărescu (Translated by Sean Cotter)

The International Booker Prize will announce its 2025 shortlist of six books on Tuesday, April 8. The judges will reveal the winner at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday, May 20. The winner will receive a £50,000 prize, with £25,000 awarded to the author and £25,000 to the translator (or shared equally among multiple translators).