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Overview
Read the official longlist of the 2025 International Booker Prize (no deadline, no pressure!)
- A Leopard-Skin Hat – Anne Serre (France), translated by Mark Hutchinson.
- On a Woman's Madness – Astrid Roemer (Suriname/Netherlands), translated by Lucy Scott.
- Heart Lamp – Banu Mushtaq (India), translated by Deepa Bhasthi.
- Perfection – Vincenzo Latronico (Italy), translated by Sophie Hughes.
- Eurotrash – Christian Kracht (Switzerland), translated by Daniel Bowles.
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird – Hiromi Kawakami (Japan), translated by Asa Yoneda.
- Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa (Japan), translated by Polly Barton.
- Small Boat – Vincent Delecroix (France), translated by Helen Stevenson.
- Reservoir Bitches – Dahlia de la Cerda (Mexico), translated by Heather Cleary & Julia Sanches.
- Solenoid – Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania), translated by Sean Cotter.
- There's a Monster Behind the Door – Gaëlle Bélem (Réunion/France), translated by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert.
- On the Calculation of Volume I – Solvej Balle (Denmark), translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
- The Book of Disappearance – Ibtisam Azem (Palestine), translated by Sinan Antoon.
2025 International Booker Prize: LONGLIST
6 participants (13 books)
Overview
Read the official longlist of the 2025 International Booker Prize (no deadline, no pressure!)
- A Leopard-Skin Hat – Anne Serre (France), translated by Mark Hutchinson.
- On a Woman's Madness – Astrid Roemer (Suriname/Netherlands), translated by Lucy Scott.
- Heart Lamp – Banu Mushtaq (India), translated by Deepa Bhasthi.
- Perfection – Vincenzo Latronico (Italy), translated by Sophie Hughes.
- Eurotrash – Christian Kracht (Switzerland), translated by Daniel Bowles.
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird – Hiromi Kawakami (Japan), translated by Asa Yoneda.
- Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa (Japan), translated by Polly Barton.
- Small Boat – Vincent Delecroix (France), translated by Helen Stevenson.
- Reservoir Bitches – Dahlia de la Cerda (Mexico), translated by Heather Cleary & Julia Sanches.
- Solenoid – Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania), translated by Sean Cotter.
- There's a Monster Behind the Door – Gaëlle Bélem (Réunion/France), translated by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert.
- On the Calculation of Volume I – Solvej Balle (Denmark), translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
- The Book of Disappearance – Ibtisam Azem (Palestine), translated by Sinan Antoon.
Challenge Books
6
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Hiromi Kawakami
shortlisted!
