2025 Booker Longlist

It’s out! The Booker longlist was released today at 2pm BST. How did our panel do with their predictions? Here are the thirteen books that made the 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. Debut novel
Flesh by David Szalay
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga. Debut novel

Click on the links to read more about the book blurbs on Amazon. We will follow up this post with a more in depth overview and our panel’s thoughts on the longlist in the next few days.

So, how well did our panel do, and did chatGPT prove superior? I (Jen) correctly predicted four books, Anita predicted 3, Tracy predicted 2. and Nicole and Lisa both predicted 1. Chat GPT predicted two books correctly. Our panel will be reading the longlist and posting reviews as we go. I own quite a few from the list but have only read two of them so I have a long road ahead of me.

We want to hear from you. What did you think of the list? Any surprises on the list? Any books you felt were overlooked?