Kiran Desai’s book shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, critically-acclaimed novel by Kiran Desai,has been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize for Fiction. Published in India under Penguin’s Hamish Hamilton imprint in September 2025, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is Desai’s first novel since her beloved bestseller The Inheritance of Loss, which earned her the Booker Prize in 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize will be announced at the ceremony in London on November 10, 2025.