The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist was announced on Tuesday 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT) – and we're pleased to announce that Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Small Axes) is on the list. The longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – 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 longlist represents 13 authors making their International Booker Prize debut, including three with their first books and eight with their first English-language publications. Excitingly, we are proud to be only one of 11 independent publishers on the longlist – the highest number ever!
Longlist
A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre
On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix
Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu
There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem
The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday 8 April 2025, and the winning title will be announced at a ceremony at London’s Tate Modern on Tuesday 20 May 2025.
