The 2025 Booker Longlist – Template for updating the books I read or intend to read this year.

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2025 Booker Longlist – Template for updating the books I read or intend to read this year.

The 13 nominated books are in the photograph (from Booker website) below:

2025 Booker Longlist – Template for the books I read or intend to read this year. To be edited again after the shortlisting, winning announcement, and of course, as I finish more books

Dates added as completed

I’m always aiming to keep these lower  each year – but only by not buying unless in 1st impression. I had already read 1 of the longlisted titles.

Here’s the 2025 Longlist. I will keep this updated.

AuthorTitlePublisherBought ? Order of preference (shortlisted)First reading start / completeCommentary
Claire AdamLove Forms Faber29/7/25 929/8/25- 01/9/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/09/06/if-it-is-the-job-of-the-novelist-is-to-render-the-form-of-memory-through-many-aspects-of-mind-and-bodily-sensations-then-this-is-one-of-the-most-superb-novels-ever-this-is-a-blog-on-claire-adam-202/
Tash AwThe South4th EstateOn publication / 1 22 March 2025 / 22 March 2025https://livesteven.com/2025/03/23/tash-aws-the-south-focuses-upon-the-lives-of-queer-angry-young-men-and-even-boys-grown-as-wild-as-el-nino/
Natasha BrownUniversality Faber29/7/25 / 6=4/8/25 – 6/8/25https://livesteven.com/2025/08/08/this-is-a-blog-on-natasha-brown-2025-universality/
Jonathan BuckleyOne Boat Fitzcarraldo Editions2nd ed. purchased 20/8/25 / 227/8/25 – 28/8/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/08/31/this-is-a-blog-on-the-rich-novel-that-is-jonathan-buckleys-2025-one-boat/
Susan ChoiFlashlightJonathan Cape29/7/25 11
shortlisted
6		23/8/25 – 27/8/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/08/27/i-blog-to-keep-my-brain-and-heart-ticking-and-to-read-better-sometimes-the-latter-aim-fails-this-blog-takes-as-an-exampole-my-planned-blog-on-susan-choi-2025-flashlight/
Kiran Desai The Loneliness of Sonia and SunnyHamish HamiltonPublication date 25 Sept. shortlistedTo 14/10/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/10/17/a-speculative-blog-on-kiran-desais-the-loneliness-of-sunny-and-sonia-my-booker-winner/
Katie KitamuraAuditionFern Press29/7/25 / 4
shortlisted
1		2/8/25 -4/8/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/08/05/this-is-a-blog-on-katie-kitamura-2025-audition/
Ben MarkovitsThe Rest of Our LivesFaber01/8/25 / 3
shortlisted
3		15/8/25 – 16/8/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/08/19/this-is-a-blog-on-ben-markovits-2025-the-rest-our-lives-london-faber/
Andrew MillerThe Land in WinterSceptreN/A. Will buy perhaps
shortlisted ?		N/A
Shortlist
?		 
Maria RevaEndling Virago/Little, Brown29/7/25 1011/8/25 – 14/8/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/08/15/this-is-a-blog-on-the-role-of-endings-in-the-modern-metafictional-novel-and-the-light-shed-on-that-role-by-maria-reva-2025-endling-london-virago-press/
David Szalay FleshJonathan Cape29/7/25 / 5
shortlisted
2		30/7/25 – 1/8/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/08/02/what-dyou-mean-what-do-you-mean-what-do-i-mean-do-we-ever-know-what-a-person-means-is-that-the-issue-in-david-szalays-2025-booker-longlisted-novel-flesh/
Benjamin WoodSeascraper Viking29/7/25 / 6=6/8/25 – 9/8/25https://livesteven.com/2025/08/14/this-is-a-blog-on-benjamin-wood-2025-seascraper/ 
Ledia XhogaMisinterpretation Daunt Books Originals29/7/25 / 817/8/25 – 20/8/25 https://livesteven.com/2025/08/23/this-is-a-blog-on-the-translation-and-interpretation-of-east-european-migrant-experience-to-america-in-ledia-xhoga-2025-misinterpretation/

Love Steven xxxxxxxx