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Han Kang and Ian McEwan among Foyles Book of the Year 2025 shortlistees
Fifteen books have been shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year 2025, including titles by Han Kang, Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy and Suzanne Collins.
In the fiction category, Han Kang is up for the prize for We Do Not Part (Penguin), alongside What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Vintage), Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (Fitzcarraldo), Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter (Penguin) and Strange Pictures by Uketsu (Pushkin).
Non-fiction books in contention are Empire of AI by Karen Hao (Penguin), Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen (Authors Equity) and Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (Penguin), alongside Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (Bloomsbury) and The Queer Thing About Sin by Harry Tanner (Bloomsbury).
Suzanne Collins’s Sunrise on the Reaping (Scholastic) is joined in the children’s category by Otherlands by Thomas Halliday and Gavin Scott (Penguin), as well as Alice with a Why by Anna James and Matthew Land (Harper Collins), The Gnome Book by Loes Riphagen and translator Michele Hutchinson (Pushkin) and Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum by Hannah Tunnicliffe and Erica Harrison (Flying Eye Books).
The category winners and overall Book of the Year winner will be announced on Thursday 27th November.
Martin Koerner, general manager of Foyles Charing Cross Road, said:: “It’s been another remarkable year for publishing, with brilliant titles from established authors and new voices alike, which delight and enthral. This list will have something for everyone, and I look forward to shouting about these books to our customers. It’s what bookselling is all about."
