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The Booker Prize 2025 winner will be revealed in London on Monday night (early Tuesday morning in India), capping months of speculation and reading marathons. The six shortlisted novels span continents and styles — from Kiran Desai’s return to fiction after two decades to David Szalay’s unsparing anatomy of masculinity — yet share a a deep, restless introspection that defines the fiction of our moment.
📌 Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny marks her first novel in nearly twenty years, a marquee of memory and migration that has made her the emotional favourite.
Here is what the former Booker winner said about her return to the Booker list, and her relationship with loneliness and fame, in conversation with Paromita Chakrabarti.
📌 Andrew Miller’s The Land in Winter revisits Britain’s 1962 Big Freeze to test the tensile strength of love and endurance. His prose, cool and exact, glows beneath the frost. (Read the full review by Kaushik Das Gupta)
📌 Susan Choi’s Flashlight begins with a disappearance and expands into a multi-generational story of grief, exile and the narratives we invent to survive ourselves. (Read the full review by Pooja Pillai)
📌 Katie Kitamura’s Audition blurs life and performance in the mind of an actress who can no longer tell which is which. It’s a study in control and the cost of composure. (Read the full review by Paromita Chakrabarti)
📌 David Szalay’s Flesh strips modern masculinity to the bone — unsparing, almost forensic, a novel about being acted upon more than acting. (Read the full review by Aakash Joshi)
📌 Benjamin Markovits’s The Rest of Our Lives takes the American road trip inward, following a middle-aged professor through fatigue, irony and fragile self-recognition. (Read the full review by Aishwarya Khosla)
The result is a shortlist of inward-looking novels. Desai leads the betting, with Miller and Markovits close behind, yet the Booker has a way of surprising those who think they’ve read the ending.
The winner will be announced in London on Monday, November 10, that’s Tuesday, November 11, 3 am IST.
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