Today the Booker Prize longlist was announced. I am familiar only with a few of the authors, which makes it all the more interesting. Good news: many are already available in the U.S. The rest are on order.
Here is the Longlist 2025:
Love Forms by Claire Adam
The Link 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
Auditon by Katie Kitamura
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
The Endling by Maria Reva
Flesh by David Szalay
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga
Are you familiar with any of these?
I haven’t read any of the nominees; like you, I’m familiar with only a few of the authors and that only from their previous work. I really loved Tash Aw’s “Five Star Billionaire” & liked Buckley’s previous novel “Tell” quite a lot. I found Kitamura’s “Intimacies” quite an interesting work, without exactly loving it. Choi’s “Flashlight” has been floating around on the edge of my consciousness for some time & I’ve been meaning to read Szalay for years (already have a copy of “Flesh” catching dust on the shelf) As for Desai, I was never able to get very far with her “Inheritance of Loss,” which won the Booker back in the day, but I suspect this says more about me than Desai I thought the list as a whole was pretty interesting, although perhaps a bit too heavy on the theme of “identity” or whatever. I’m actually thinking of reading several of these.
Yes, it’s an interesting list! I said I wouldn’t read the longlist, but I WILL read a few of them. I would love to get a copy of Desai’s book, but it isn’t published until Sept. 20something. I also have read two of Choi’s novels, but as for the rest? Nope.