Win the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist

Plus: Read an extract from all 13 books on the list, and take our personality quiz to find out which longlisted book is perfect for you

Win a set of all 13 books from the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist

To celebrate the announcement of this year’s longlist, we’re offering you the chance to win one of five sets of all 13 titles in contention for the International Booker Prize 2025.

As Chair of judges Max Porter says, ‘In these books, people are sharing strategies for survival; they are cheating, lying, joking and innovating. Some people are no longer of this earth, or they are sending visions from the future or from parallel universes. These books bring us into the agony of family, workplace or nation-state politics, the near-spiritual secrecy of friendship, the inner architecture of erotic feeling, the banality of capitalism and the agitations of faith’.

To be in with a chance of winning, head over to the Booker Prizes website using the link below and enter your details. This competition is open to readers across the world.

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Quiz: Which book from the longlist should you read first?

This year’s International Booker Prize longlist provides a feast of fiction from around the world, and we believe there’s a book here to suit all tastes. But where to start? Well – drumroll, please – it’s time for the quiz you didn’t know you needed (but most definitely do). Whether you adore a plot-twisting page-turner or prefer a slow-burning, poetic read, our personality quiz will recommend the work of translated fiction that’s perfect for you. Don’t forget to let us know your result in the comments below…

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Read extracts from the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist

From desire and disability to the overnight disappearance of Palestinian people; from a tragedy in the English Channel to a 20th-century queer classic; from stories spanning thousands of years to a single, constantly-repeating day, the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist features – as Max Porter says – books ‘from everywhere, for everyone’.

Here, you can whet your appetite with an extract from the opening chapter of each book. Let us know your favourites in the comments below!