The Booker Prize longlist continues to spotlight writers who push the boundaries of storytelling, blending intimate human moments with expansive ideas.
This year’s selection introduces works that explore memory, identity, and the shifting landscapes, both emotional and physical, that shape us.
From established voices to fresh perspectives, each book invites readers to confront complexity while offering the rare joy of exceptional prose.
Flashlight by Susan Choi
A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together, and the reverberations of that event that last a lifetime.
Flesh by David Szalay
From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The mesmerising new novel from the author of Intimacies that asks who we are to the people we love.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss.
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
SEASCRAPER is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of a bigger life.
Taken together, the longlisted titles underscore the Booker Prize’s enduring role in championing literature that is both timely and timeless.
Whether already on shelves or still to come, these novels promise to ignite conversations, linger in the imagination, and reaffirm the power of fiction to illuminate the world anew.
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