International Booker Prize 2025: Eligible Books

1.
The Empusium
The Empusium 3.78 avg rating — 18,290 ratings
2.
We Do Not Part
We Do Not Part
by: Han Kang
3.88 avg rating — 19,129 ratings
3.
Living Things
Living Things 3.74 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
4.
The Son of Man
The Son of Man 3.81 avg rating — 979 ratings
5.
Clean
Clean 3.82 avg rating — 15,337 ratings
6.
Solenoid
Solenoid 4.25 avg rating — 5,838 ratings
7.
Mammoth (Triptych, #3)
Mammoth (Triptych, #3) 3.60 avg rating — 4,558 ratings
8.
Herscht 07769
Herscht 07769 4.21 avg rating — 813 ratings
9.
Season of the Swamp
Season of the Swamp 3.58 avg rating — 797 ratings
10.
On the Calculation of Volume I
On the Calculation of Volume I 3.72 avg rating — 15,165 ratings
11.
Un amor
Un amor
by: Sara Mesa
3.56 avg rating — 20,440 ratings
12.
A Sunny Place for Shady People
A Sunny Place for Shady People 3.78 avg rating — 18,277 ratings
13.
Reservoir Bitches
Reservoir Bitches 4.20 avg rating — 11,537 ratings
14.
What Kingdom
What Kingdom 3.65 avg rating — 960 ratings
15.
Mina's Matchbox
Mina's Matchbox 3.75 avg rating — 6,053 ratings
16.
Woodworm
Woodworm 4.11 avg rating — 21,388 ratings
17.
The Mark
The Mark 3.64 avg rating — 3,297 ratings
18.
Napalm in the Heart
Napalm in the Heart 3.62 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
19.
The Silence of the Choir
The Silence of the Choir 4.07 avg rating — 652 ratings
20.
A Leopard-Skin Hat
A Leopard-Skin Hat 3.50 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
21.
The Book of Disappearance
The Book of Disappearance 4.12 avg rating — 1,887 ratings
21.
May Our Joy Endure
May Our Joy Endure 3.49 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
23.
The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan
The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan 3.87 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
24.
Hunchback
Hunchback 3.41 avg rating — 8,289 ratings
25.
Time of the Flies
Time of the Flies 3.80 avg rating — 3,750 ratings
26.
Los llanos
Los llanos 4.11 avg rating — 4,501 ratings
27.
Le perfezioni
Le perfezioni 3.69 avg rating — 12,894 ratings
28.
Tidal Waters
Tidal Waters 3.45 avg rating — 142 ratings
29.
If Only
If Only 3.33 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
30.
Sad Tiger
Sad Tiger 4.18 avg rating — 11,478 ratings
31.
Dschinns
Dschinns 4.56 avg rating — 13,945 ratings
32.
Brandy Sour
Brandy Sour 4.21 avg rating — 301 ratings
32.
Dear Dickhead
Dear Dickhead 3.60 avg rating — 8,643 ratings
34.
Stay with Me
Stay with Me 3.54 avg rating — 236 ratings
35.
Childish Literature
Childish Literature 4.24 avg rating — 5,384 ratings
36.
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Under the Eye of the Big Bird 3.77 avg rating — 3,669 ratings
37.
all this here, now
all this here, now 3.70 avg rating — 135 ratings
38.
A Simple Intervention
A Simple Intervention 3.71 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
39.
Dengue Boy
Dengue Boy 3.59 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
40.
The Unworthy
The Unworthy 3.68 avg rating — 26,853 ratings
41.
What I Know About You
What I Know About You 4.35 avg rating — 9,600 ratings
42.
Annihilation
Annihilation 3.83 avg rating — 10,951 ratings
43.
Elevator in Sài Gòn
Elevator in Sài Gòn
by: Thuận
3.34 avg rating — 640 ratings
43.
The National Telepathy
The National Telepathy 3.42 avg rating — 431 ratings
45.
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
by: Cho yeeun
3.53 avg rating — 926 ratings
45.
Eurotrash
Eurotrash 3.61 avg rating — 7,022 ratings
47.
Faraway the Southern Sky
Faraway the Southern Sky 3.60 avg rating — 319 ratings
48.
Delicious Hunger
Delicious Hunger
by: Hai Fan
3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings
49.
Savage Theories: 'Philosophy gets sexy' Vanity Fair
Savage Theories: 'Philosophy gets sexy' Vanity Fair 2.88 avg rating — 949 ratings
50.
Bad Habit
Bad Habit 4.52 avg rating — 31,706 ratings
51.
The Paris Trilogy
The Paris Trilogy 3.90 avg rating — 1,886 ratings
51.
The Accidentals
The Accidentals 3.87 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
53.
Thirst
Thirst 3.48 avg rating — 6,958 ratings
54.
Of Fathers and Fugitives
Of Fathers and Fugitives 3.62 avg rating — 185 ratings
55.
Too Great a Sky
Too Great a Sky 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
56.
Jellyfish Have No Ears
Jellyfish Have No Ears 3.16 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
57.
The Colony
The Colony 4.10 avg rating — 9,549 ratings
58.
The Black Orb
The Black Orb
by: Ewhan Kim
3.14 avg rating — 394 ratings
59.
The Tyranny of Flies
The Tyranny of Flies 3.89 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
60.
How to Leave the World
How to Leave the World 4.07 avg rating — 252 ratings
61.
On the Greenwich Line
On the Greenwich Line 3.66 avg rating — 574 ratings
62.
Darkenbloom
Darkenbloom 3.82 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
62.
All Dogs Die
All Dogs Die 3.81 avg rating — 268 ratings
64.
The Hairdresser’s Son
The Hairdresser’s Son 3.52 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
65.
Last Date in El Zapotal
Last Date in El Zapotal 3.72 avg rating — 595 ratings
66.
Shade and Breeze
Shade and Breeze 3.32 avg rating — 686 ratings
67.
Vanishing World
Vanishing World 3.34 avg rating — 5,658 ratings
68.
Brightly Shining
Brightly Shining 4.03 avg rating — 11,476 ratings
69.
Our City That Year
Our City That Year 3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
70.
The Trunk
The Trunk 2.87 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
71.
Queenless
Queenless 3.99 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
72.
Voracious
Voracious 3.94 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
73.
Tongueless
Tongueless 3.67 avg rating — 309 ratings
74.
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories 3.82 avg rating — 3,159 ratings
75.
There's a Monster Behind the Door
There's a Monster Behind the Door 3.61 avg rating — 333 ratings
76.
Gifted
Gifted 3.28 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
77.
Hunger
Hunger 3.66 avg rating — 492 ratings
78.
Hungry for What
Hungry for What 3.66 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
79.
Small Boat
Small Boat 4.07 avg rating — 4,272 ratings
80.
Counterattacks at Thirty
Counterattacks at Thirty 3.51 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
81.
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Bridegroom Was a Dog 3.40 avg rating — 1,619 ratings
82.
Back in the Day
Back in the Day 4.18 avg rating — 6,100 ratings
83.
The Bishop’s Villa
The Bishop’s Villa 3.77 avg rating — 453 ratings
84.
A Good Life
A Good Life 4.17 avg rating — 7,499 ratings
85.
Dogs and Wolves
Dogs and Wolves 3.35 avg rating — 249 ratings
86.
The Proposal
The Proposal 3.10 avg rating — 258 ratings
87.
Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat
Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat
by: Kim Jiyun
3.91 avg rating — 3,323 ratings
88.
A Calamity of Noble Houses
A Calamity of Noble Houses 4.14 avg rating — 981 ratings
89.
A Thousand Blues
A Thousand Blues 4.09 avg rating — 558 ratings
90.
First Love
First Love 3.86 avg rating — 362 ratings
91.
Mysterious Setting
Mysterious Setting 3.44 avg rating — 241 ratings
92.
Goodnight Tokyo
Goodnight Tokyo 3.52 avg rating — 3,979 ratings
92.
The Cursed Friend
The Cursed Friend 3.93 avg rating — 8,098 ratings
94.
On the Calculation of Volume II
On the Calculation of Volume II 3.96 avg rating — 4,899 ratings
95.
The Edges
The Edges 3.88 avg rating — 1,779 ratings
96.
The Guardian of Surfaces
The Guardian of Surfaces 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
97.
The Lantern of Lost Memories
The Lantern of Lost Memories 4.06 avg rating — 17,820 ratings
98.
Death Takes Me
Death Takes Me 2.94 avg rating — 960 ratings
99.
Curling
Curling 3.86 avg rating — 120 ratings
100.
Suggested in the Stars
Suggested in the Stars 3.30 avg rating — 229 ratings
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