Flesh by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025

The Booker Prize is awarded annually by the Booker Prize Foundation to the best English-language novel published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

The £50,000 prize was awarded to David Szalay on 10 November 2025. The Hungarian-British author received the Booker Prize for his novel ‘Flesh’. Our warmest congratulations!

All shortlisted and longlisted novels can be found in the Bamberg University Library. We welcome you to read them!
 

Shortlist 2025:

• David Szalay: Flesh
• Andrew Miller: The Land in Winter
• Ben Markovits: The Rest of Our Lives
• Katie Kitamura: Audition
• Kiran Desai: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
• Susan Choi: Flashlight

Longlist 2025:

• Ledia Xhoga: Misinterpretation
• Benjamin Wood: Seascraper
• Maria Reva: Endling
• Jonathan Buckley: One Boat
• Natasha Brown: Universality
• Tash Aw: The South
• Claire Adam: Love Forms