The International Booker Prize Shortlist 2025

A revelatory read focused on a fraught friendship between a woman name Fanny and a man called the Narrator. Anne Serre depicts complex mental health struggles, connection and the fragility of humanity in just 122 pages.  

Through twelve unforgettable stories, lawyer, activist and author Banu Mushtaq portrays the everyday lives of Muslim women and children. Depicting intergenerational conflicts between families, the beauties and complexities of human nature through a vivid and tender lens. 

Roam the streets of Berlin through the eyes of Anna and Tom, a young couple finding their footing in a new city. Vincenzo Latronico delivers a biting study of creativity, youth, modern relationships and connection in a world of disconnection through one complex pair.  

Have you ever wondered what would happen if humans started to go extinct? Hiromi Kawakami trades in a world of excess and endless possibility for a smattering of tribes and communities surviving under the careful — and unforgiving watch — of AI-programmed machines. 

A fictional depiction of a real-life event, Vincent Delecroix recounts the November 2021 English Channel disaster through the eyes of a French coastguard who could have prevented the tragedy. This is a taut exploration of morality, personal vs. collective responsibility, life and death.  

Time is broken (but not meaningless) in this mind-bending first installment of an epic seven-volume series of novels that rewrite the history of the world as we know it.