Here are the 13 books that made the Booker Prize longlist
An epic fable about two young Indian writers. A dark comedy about a loner who gets a job as a chauffeur for the mega-rich. A book about a Ukrainian ecologist studying snails that turns into a metafictional novel about a writer working on a book about a Ukrainian ecologist studying snails at the onset of the ongoing war.
This year’s list of nominees for the prestigious Booker Prize is a varied lot in terms of style, scope, length and subject matter. But they “are all alive with great characters and narrative surprises,” Roddy Doyle, the 2025 Booker Prize chair of judges, said in a statement.
Authors up for this year’s award include Susan Choi for Flashlight, Maria Reva for Endling and Katie Kitamura for Audition. The full list is below.
The Booker Prize is a prestigious award given to fiction written in English and published in the U.K. and Ireland. Previous winners include Samantha Harvey, George Saunders and Marlon James. The winner receives £50,000 (about $66,000). The winner will be announced on Nov. 10 at a livestreamed ceremony in London.
Here’s the full list:
- Love Forms by Claire Adam
- The South by Tash Aw
- Universality by Natasha Brown
- One Boat by Jonathan Buckley
- Flashlight by Susan Choi
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
- Audition by Katie Kitamura
- The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
- The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
- Endling by Maria Reva
- Flesh by David Szalay
- Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
- Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
Newly discovered dinosaur species was a fish-eater with a huge horn
The semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.
Reporters’ notebook: The Olympics closing ceremony is way more fun than you’d think
Olympics opening ceremonies tend to get more love than their closing counterparts. But a pair of NPR reporters who watched both in Italy left with a newfound appreciation for the latter.
Northeast readies for a major winter storm, with blizzard warnings in effect
New Jersey through Massachusetts could see 2 feet of snow. New York City's mayor said the city had not "seen a storm like this in a decade."
Mexican army kills leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, official says
The Mexican army killed the leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho," in an operation Sunday, a federal official said.
Ukraine’s combat amputees cling to hope as a weapon of war
Along with a growing number of war-wounded amputees, Mykhailo Varvarych and Iryna Botvynska are navigating an altered destiny after Varvarych lost both his legs during the Russian invasion.
University students hold new protests in Iran around memorials for those killed
Iran's state news agency said students protested at five universities in the capital, Tehran, and one in the city of Mashhad on Sunday.
