Booker Prize 2025 | Shortlist Reaction

Bookies' Favourite · Sep 25, 2025 · 19m · transcript

The official Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is here—and honestly? We’re a little disappointed by the choices. Still, there’s plenty to dig into, and we’re excited to read and discuss each of the six books in the lead-up to the winner’s announcement.

Here’s the order we’ll be reading them in:

1️⃣ Audition by Katie Kitamura (Fern Press)

2️⃣ The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

3️⃣ Flashlight by Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape)

4️⃣ The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits (Faber)

5️⃣ Flesh by David Szalay (Jonathan Cape)

6️⃣ The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton)

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