The six-title shortlist has been released for the 2025 Booker Prize for Fiction. The winner, who will be be named on November 10 in London, receives £50,000 (about $67,630). Each of the finalists gets £2,500 (about $3,380). This year's shortlisted titles are:
Flesh by David Szalay
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Chair of judges Roddy Doyle said the finalists "have two big things in common. Their authors are in total command of their own store of English, their own rhythm, their own expertise; they have each crafted a novel that no one else could have written. And all of the books, in six different and very fresh ways, find their stories in the examination of the individual trying to live with--to love, to seek attention from, to cope with, to understand, to keep at bay, to tolerate, to escape from--other people. In other words, they are all brilliantly written and they are all brilliantly human."
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A shortlist has been released for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize, which recognizes "writers of exceptional talent for the best novel or short story collection of the year" in Canada. The winner, who will be named at the Writers' Trust Awards in Toronto on November 13, receives C$70,000 (about US$50,500) and each finalist C$7,500 (US$5,400). This year's shortlisted titles are:
Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand by Tim Bowling
Simple Creatures by Robert McGill
We, the Kindling by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
Endling by Maria Reva
Julius Julius by Aurora Stewart de Peña
The award is named in honor of Writers' Trust co-founders Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, who, with the help of several other writers, started the organization in 1976 to support Canadian literary culture.