The International Booker Prize 2025 Longlist
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The 2025 Longlist for the International Booker Prize – the world’s most influential award for translated fiction.
The longlist was chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter. The other judges are: 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 list celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 May 2024 and 30 April 2025, as judged by the 2025 panel. The judges made their selection from 154 books submitted by publishers – the highest number since the prize was launched in its current format in 2016.
The prize recognises the vital work of translators with the £50,000 prize money divided equally: £25,000 for the author and £25,000 for the translator (or divided equally between multiple translators).
 A Leopard-Skin Hat
| 3.9 | 6 reads | |
 Eurotrash
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
| 3 | 2 reads | |
 Hunchback
| 4.1 | 8 reads | |
 On a Woman's Madness
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 On the Calculation of Volume
| 3.92 | 11 reads | |
 Perfection
| 4.6 | 7 reads | |
 Reservoir Bitches
| 4 | 5 reads | |
 Solenoid
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Book of Disappearance
| 4.17 | 3 reads | |
 There's a Monster Behind the Door
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Under the Eye of the Big Bird
| 4.33 | 8 reads |