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International Booker prize 2025: six experts review the shortlisted novels

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on May 20.

The Conversation

Love Groundhog Day and Russian Doll? These are the novels for you

High-concept novels are having a moment. Funny, inventive and crackling with big ideas, these ambitious stories will have you instantly hooked

The Guardian - UK

'What it means to be a human': Short-but-punchy books dominate International Booker Prize shortlist

First-time nominee female writers dominate the International Booker Prize shortlist 2025.

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‘Mind-expanding books’: International Booker prize shortlist announced

From Muslim Indian women’s lives to a Danish time looper, all six contenders for the £50,000 prize are from independent presses, as translator Sophie Hughes earns an unprecedented third nomination

The Guardian - UK

The spring reading list—the page-turners that will have you hooked

Featuring truly fine debuts and household names

Marie Claire

‘How can one day be so voluminous?’: the Danish author who has written her own version of Groundhog Day

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International Booker

The Guardian - UK

All 13 writers on International Booker longlist are first-time nominees

This year’s ‘unconventional’ list also features the highest-ever number of independent publishers

The Guardian - UK

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