The 2025 Booker shortlist is made up of works by veteran authors, most of whom have more than five books to their name. In a statement, author Roddy Doyle, the chair of judges, writes that the shortlisters are "in total command of their own store of English, their own rhythm, their own expertise." The Booker Prize winner will be announced Monday, Nov. 10, in a ceremony that will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and livestreamed on the Booker Prizes' social channels. This year's Booker Shortlist winners are:Flashlight by Susan ChoiSusan Choi's sixth novel began as a short story published in The New Yorker. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran DesaiDesai won the Booker Prize in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss .