Three of the authors have connections to the\u00a0CBC Literary Prizes<\/a>. Joanna Cockerline, nominated for her novel Still,\u00a0won second place for\u00a0the CBC Short Story Prize<\/a> in 2002. Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, longlisted for We, The Kindling<\/a>,\u00a0was also\u00a0longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize<\/a>. Amanda Leduc\u00a0was longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize<\/a>\u00a0in 2014 and 2019, as well as the CBC Nonfiction Prize<\/a> in 2014. She’s on the Giller longlist for her novel Wild Life<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here is the full 2025 Giller Prize longlist:\u00a0<\/p>\n Other Worlds\u00a0by Andr\u00e9 Alexis We Love You, Bunny\u00a0by Mona Awad\u00a0 An Astonishment of Stars\u00a0by Kirti Bhadresa We, The Kindling\u00a0by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek The Tiger and the Cosmonaut\u00a0by Eddy Boudel Tan Sugaring Off\u00a0by Fanny Britt, translated by Susan Ouriou Still\u00a0by Joanna Cockerline The Paris Express\u00a0by Emma Donoghue The Sideways Life of Denny Voss\u00a0by Holly Kennedy The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus\u00a0by Emma Knight\u00a0 Wild Life\u00a0by Amanda Leduc The Road Between Us\u00a0by Bindu Suresh\u00a0 Pick a Colour\u00a0by Souvankham Thammavongsa You’ve Changed\u00a0by Ian Williams\u00a0 <\/p>\n The longlist was chosen from more than 100 books by jury chair and former finalist Dionne Irving and jurors and authors\u00a0Loghan Paylor and\u00a0Deepa Rajagopalan.<\/p>\n “These texts demonstrate how we are an interconnected, global community, however cacophonous our collective cries,” said the jury in a press statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The power of the voices on this year’s longlist astonished the judges. These authors urgently compel readers to be transported, to be lifted up, and ultimately, to love.”<\/p>\n The 2025 shortlist will be announced on Oct.\u00a06 and the winner will be announced on Nov. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 2025 Giller Prize\u00a0award ceremony will be broadcast on Monday, Nov.\u00a017, at 9 p.m. ET (11:30 p.m. AT, 12 a.m. NT)\u00a0on CBC TV and CBC Gem, with a livestream also available at 9 p.m. ET on CBC’s YouTube channel. It will also be\u00a0broadcast\u00a0on CBC Radio One and CBC Listen.<\/p>\n In 2023, the Giller Prize broadcast was twice interrupted\u00a0by protesters taking issue with\u00a0Scotiabank, the prize’s former main sponsor, \u00a0because of the bank’s\u00a0investment in\u00a0Elbit\u00a0Systems, an Israeli defence contractor.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2024, an organization called CanLit\u00a0Responds gathered signatures\u00a0of Canadian\u00a0writers\u00a0calling for the Giller Prize to divest from Scotiabank<\/a>,\u00a0as well as two other sponsors,\u00a0and pledged to not submit their work or attend any related events until their demands are met.\u00a0<\/p>\n Earlier this year, the\u00a0Giller Prize parted ways with Scotiabank as a sponsor<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last year’s Giller Prize winner was\u00a0Anne Michaels<\/a>\u00a0for her novel Held<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sarah Bernstein, who won the award in 2023 for Study for Obedience<\/a>,\u00a0signed the July 2024\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0calling for the prize to cut ties with Scotiabank.\u00a0Omar El Akkad, who won the prize in 2021,\u00a0also signed it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Other past Giller Prize winners include\u00a0Suzette Mayr<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0The Sleeping Car Porter<\/a>,\u00a0Esi Edugyan<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>for\u00a0Washington Black<\/a>,\u00a0Michael Redhill<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Bellevue Square<\/a>,\u00a0Margaret Atwood<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Alias Grace<\/a>,\u00a0Mordecai Richler<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Barney’s Version<\/a>,\u00a0Alice Munro<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Runaway<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Madeleine Thien<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Do Not Say We Have Nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch founded the prize in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller, in 1994. Rabinovitch\u00a0died in 2017 at the age of 87<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can learn more about the 14 longlisted books below.<\/p>\n Other Worlds\u00a0by Andr\u00e9 Alexis Spanning from 19th-century Trinidad and Tobago to a small town in Ontario, from Amherst, Mass.,\u00a0to modern-day Toronto,\u00a0Other Worlds<\/a>\u00a0is a short story collection that\u00a0highlights\u00a0characters encountering moments of profound puzzlement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alexis was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and raised in Ottawa. His debut novel,\u00a0Childhood<\/a>, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award (now known as the Amazon First Novel Award) and the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank\u00a0Giller Prize<\/a>\u00a0and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.<\/p>\n His other books include\u00a0Pastoral<\/a>,\u00a0Asylum<\/a>,\u00a0The Hidden Keys<\/a>, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa\u00a0and\u00a0Days by Moonlight<\/a>, which won the\u00a02019 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize<\/a>\u00a0and was on the\u00a02019 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist<\/a>. His\u00a0novel\u00a0Fifteen Dogs<\/a>, championed by\u00a0Humble The Poet<\/a>, won\u00a0Canada Reads<\/a>\u00a02017 and the 2015 Scotiabank\u00a0Giller Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n We Love You, Bunny\u00a0by Mona Awad\u00a0 A sequel and prequel to\u00a0Bunny<\/a>, Mona Awad’s debut novel,\u00a0We Love You, Bunny\u00a0takes readers back to the New England town and creative writing MFA that started it all. A few years later, Sam publishes her book about the violent and surreal experiences with the other cliquey girls in her program.<\/p>\n On her book tour, she stops at her alma mater and is kidnapped by her frenemies, who are upset with the way she portrayed them in her book. With Sam tied up in the fateful attic, the bunnies go back in time, recounting the story as they remember it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Awad is a Boston-based author whose debut short story collection,\u00a013 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl<\/a>, won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for\u00a0the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/a>. She is also the author of the novels\u00a0Bunny<\/a>,\u00a0Rouge<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0All’s Well<\/a>. Awad teaches at Syracuse University.<\/p>\n An Astonishment of Stars\u00a0by Kirti Bhadresa An Astonishment of Stars<\/a>\u00a0is a short story collection that focuses on racialized women navigating all the hardships of everyday life. From a wife who uses the name of her white husband in public to the teen girl who watches her rebellious older sister slip away, the stories shed light on those who often remain unseen.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kirti Bhadresa is a Calgary-based fiction and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Quarantine Review, The Sprawl and Room. She was a finalist for the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Award in the feature writing category.\u00a0<\/p>\n We, The Kindling\u00a0by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek We, the Kindling<\/a>\u00a0weaves together stories of women who were abducted as children by a rebel militia in northern Uganda.\u00a0Through the writing, each powerful voice tells a haunting story of loss, survival, friendship and what it means to hold on to hope, no matter how small.<\/p>\n Bitek, a poet and scholar born in Kenya to Ugandan parents, currently lives in Kingston, Ont. Her work includes poetry collections\u00a0100 Days,\u00a0A is for Acholi<\/a>, which won the 2023 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and\u00a0Song & Dread. She was also\u00a0longlisted for the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Tiger and the Cosmonaut\u00a0by Eddy Boudel Tan Having built a new life in Vancouver with his boyfriend, Casper Han rarely returns to his hometown, a small remote town in B.C. But when a crisis forces him and his siblings to reunite, they are compelled to confront a long-avoided tragedy \u2014 the mysterious disappearance of his twin brother more than 20 years ago. In\u00a0The Tiger and the Cosmonaut<\/a>, the siblings try to solve what happened to Sam in order to move forward.<\/p>\n Eddy Boudel Tan is a writer based in Vancouver, where he co-founded the Sidewalk Supper Project. His previous works include the novels\u00a0After Elias\u00a0and\u00a0The Rebellious Tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tan has been a finalist for the Edmund White Award, the ReLit Best Novel Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award\u00a0and was named a Rising Star by Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2021. His work has appeared in Joyland and Yolk.<\/p>\n LISTEN\u00a0| Eddy Boudel Tan on The Tiger and the Cosmonaut:\u00a0<\/p>\n North by NorthwestEddy Boudel Tan on The Tiger and the Cosmonaut<\/p>\n Sugaring Off\u00a0by Fanny Britt, translated by Susan Ouriou Sugaring Off<\/a>\u00a0follows married couple Adam and Marion who seem to have it all figured out. When Adam causes a surfing accident that leaves a young woman injured, Adam and Marion must face the reality that they’ve been ignoring their problems.<\/p>\n Fanny Britt is a Montreal-based writer, translator\u00a0and playwright. She has won multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards including the 2013 Award in Drama for her play\u00a0Bienveillance.\u00a0Sugaring Off<\/a>\u00a0won the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n Susan Ouriou is a French and Spanish to English translator, a fiction writer and a playwright. She has previously won the Governor General’s Literary Award for translation for her work. Ouriou also\u00a0translated\u00a0The Future<\/a>\u00a0by Catherine Leroux, which\u00a0won\u00a0Canada Reads\u00a02024<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Still\u00a0by Joanna Cockerline In Still, Kayla lives and works on the streets of\u00a0Kelowna, B.C.\u00a0As she\u00a0searches for her friend Little Zoe,\u00a0a sex worker, who is missing, she revisits the\u00a0haunting truths of her past. When Kayla befriends an outreach volunteer with her own struggles, they take photos together, realizing that everything is not always as it appears.<\/p>\n In a story of community, friendship and resilience,\u00a0Still\u00a0spotlights a vibrant and unhoused community and explores what it means to find home in others and oneself.\u00a0<\/p>\n Joanna Cockerline is an author from Kelowna. She won second\u00a0place in\u00a0the CBC Short Story in 2002 and her work has been published in Room, The Fiddlehead and En Route.<\/p>\n She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2022 and co-authored the short story collection Seeing Our Sisters\u00a0with\u00a0Munira Hussein, Rehema Zuberi, Hellen Mwololo, Ellah Hallets and Jacque Nzioka.<\/p>\n The Paris Express\u00a0by Emma Donoghue The Paris Express<\/a>\u00a0takes readers aboard a suspenseful train journey from the Normandy coast to Paris. Inspired by a real-life photo of a train hanging off the side of Montparnasse station,\u00a0The Paris Express<\/a>\u00a0unravels over the course of one fateful day, featuring the fascinating stories of the passengers, from a young boy traveling solo to a pregnant woman on the run, the devoted railway workers and a young anarchist on a mission.<\/p>\n Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian writer whose books include the novels\u00a0Landing<\/a>,\u00a0Room<\/a>,\u00a0Frog Music<\/a>,\u00a0The Wonder<\/a>,\u00a0The Pull of the Stars<\/a>,\u00a0Learned by Heart<\/a>\u00a0and the children’s book\u00a0The Lotterys Plus One<\/a>.\u00a0Room<\/a>\u00a0was an international bestseller and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film starring Brie Larson.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Pull of the Stars<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Canada Reads\u00a02025<\/a>\u00a0and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Sideways Life of Denny Voss\u00a0by Holly Kennedy The Sideways Life of Denny Voss\u00a0finds the titular character in rural Minnesota, living with his elderly mother and beloved dog and cleaning up roadkill to pay the bills. While his options for other work are limited due to a developmental delay, he’s always felt pretty content with the life he’s got.<\/p>\n When he’s charged with the murder of a mayoral candidate, Denny’s life is turned upside down as he tries to fight it. As\u00a0he waits for the trial, the court-appointed therapist helps him retrace how he ended up here and uncovers painful truths about his family’s past.\u00a0<\/p>\n Holly Kennedy is a writer based near the Rocky Mountains in Alberta. Her other books are The Tin Box, The Silver Compass, The Penny Tree and Route 66 On the Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus\u00a0by Emma Knight\u00a0 In\u00a0The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus<\/a>, Pen is set for an eventful first-year university experience at the University of Edinburgh.\u00a0In addition to her studies, she looks for answers about her parents’ messy divorce by writing a letter to her dad’s estranged best friend, thriller writer Lord Lennox.<\/p>\n When he invites her to spend a weekend at his family estate, she can’t help but become enthralled with his entire family \u2014 and slowly begins to unravel the family secrets that left her parents so pained.<\/p>\n Emma Knight is an author, journalist and entrepreneur based in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, Vogue, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus and The New York Times. She co-hosted and created the podcast\u00a0Fanfare\u00a0and co-founded the organic beverage company Greenhouse. She is the author of cookbooks\u00a0How to Eat with One Hand\u00a0and\u00a0The Greenhouse Cookbook.<\/p>\n Wild Life\u00a0by Amanda Leduc In\u00a0Wild Life<\/a>, Josiah is banished to work as a missionary in Siberia\u00a0to rid him of his belief\u00a0that animals have a divine power.\u00a0When a natural disaster kills the other missionaries there, Josiah is saved by two talking hyenas and brought home to Scotland safely.<\/p>\n He starts a religion based on the notion that God allowed these hyenas to speak because of his own fervent faith\u00a0and as part of a plan to fix humanity. As he gains more followers, more animals begin to talk to humans and a mass exodus of captive animals causes everyone to reckon with their own wildness.<\/p>\n Amanda Leduc is the author of the novels\u00a0The Miracles of Ordinary Men\u00a0and\u00a0The Centaur’s Wife<\/a>,\u00a0and the nonfiction book\u00a0Disfigured<\/a>, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction.\u00a0She was longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize<\/a>\u00a0in 2014 and 2019, as well as the CBC Nonfiction Prize<\/a> in 2014. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ont.<\/p>\n LISTEN\u00a0| Amanda Leduc on why she made her protagonists talking coyotes:\u00a0<\/p>\n The Next ChapterAmanda Leduc on why she made her protagonists talking coyotes<\/p>\n The Road Between Us\u00a0by Bindu Suresh\u00a0 In\u00a0The Road Between Us<\/a>,\u00a0Estela is a woman struggling in her\u00a0personal and professional relationships\u00a0due to the loss of a sibling at a young age. Estela is also dealing with the fallout from her estranged best friend, Ash, who confessed his love for her, and is figuring out his bisexual identity in the context of his traditional Indian family. Oph\u00e9lie\u00a0is coping with PTSD from an emotionally abusive relationship from her teens.<\/p>\n Roman is a teacher who seeks out his younger students in the wake of his divorce\u00a0\u2014 and the height of the “Me Too” era.\u00a0The Road Between Us<\/a>\u00a0is an episodic novel following those four characters that dives into\u00a0how the choices we make affect those we love.<\/p>\n Bindu Suresh\u00a0is a fiction writer and paediatrician\u00a0based in Montreal. Her debut book was\u00a026 Knots<\/a>.\u00a0She\u00a0studied literature at Columbia University and medicine at McGill University.\u00a0CBC Books named Suresh\u00a0a writer to watch in 2019<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pick a Colour\u00a0by Souvankham Thammavongsa Pick A Colour\u00a0tells the story of the day in the life of Ning, a retired boxer who works at a nail salon. Ning paints and polishes customers’ nails, falling into the routine and rhythms.\u00a0But despite her anonymous exterior, she’s an intellectual, a deep thinker and is haunted by the roads not taken.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thammavongsa\u00a0wrote\u00a0the short story collection\u00a0How to Pronounce Knife<\/a>, which won the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award. She’s also the author of four poetry collections and stand-alone stories that have been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic and Granta. She was born in a refugee camp in Thailand\u00a0and\u00a0raised in Toronto.<\/p>\n You’ve Changed\u00a0by Ian Williams\u00a0 In\u00a0You’ve Changed, middle-aged couple Beckett and Princess are having marital issues. They’re sent into parallel mid-life crises after their friends come to visit for the weekend. While Princess is concerned that their problems stem from her physical attributes and turns to surgery, Beckett decides to relaunch his contracting business in the hope\u00a0that his accomplishments will revive their relationship.<\/p>\n They’re changing for each other but also discovering new things about themselves. Will their marriage survive?<\/p>\n Ian Williams is the author of several books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His debut novel,\u00a0Reproduction<\/a>, won the Giller Prize. He gave the 2024 Massey Lecture on his nonfiction book\u00a0What I Mean to Say<\/a>.\u00a0Williams is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and director of the creative writing program. He is based in Toronto.<\/p>\n LISTEN\u00a0| Ian Williams gives his Massey Lecture:\u00a0<\/p>\n IdeasThe 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 1: Why we need to have a conversation about conversations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fourteen books\u00a0have been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. 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Other Worlds is a book by Andre Alexis. (McClelland & Stewart, Coach House Books\/Hannah Zoe Davison)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/we-love-you-bunny-by-mona-awad.jpg\")
We Love You, Bunny is a book by Mona Awad. (Scribner Canada)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/an-astonishment-of-stars-by-kirti-bhadresa.jpg\")
An Astonishment of Stars is a short story collection by Kirti Bhadresa. (Samuel Obadero, ECW Press)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/we-the-kindling-by-otoniya-j-okot-bitek.jpg\")
We, the Kindling is a book by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek. (Knopf Canada, Greg Black)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-tiger-and-the-cosmonaut-by-eddy-boudel-tan.jpg\")
The Tiger and the Cosmonaut is a book by Eddy Boudel Tan. (Penguin Canada)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sugaring-off-by-fanny-britt-translated-by-susan-ouriou.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
Sugaring Off is a novel by Fanny Britt, pictured, and translated by Susan Ouriou. (Justine Latour, Book*hug Press)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/still-by-joanna-cockerline.jpg\")
Still is a novel by Joanna Cockerline. (The Porcupine’s Quill)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-paris-express-by-emma-donoghue.jpg\")
The Paris Express is a book by Emma Donoghue. (HarperCollins Canada, Woodgate Photography)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-sideways-life-of-denny-voss-by-holly-kennedy.jpg\")
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss is a novel by Holly Kennedy. (Lake Union Publishing, Holly Kennedy)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus-by-emma-knight-1.jpg\")
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is a novel by Emma Knight. (Viking, Caitlin Cronenberg)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wild-life-by-amanda-leduc.jpg\")
Wild Life is a book by Amanda Leduc. (Random House Canada, Trevor Cole)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-road-between-us-by-bindu-suresh.jpg\")
The Road Between Us is a novel by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press, Eva Maude )<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pick-a-colour-by-souvankham-thammavongsa.jpg\")
Pick a Colour is a book by Souvankham Thammavongsa. (Knopf Canada, Steph Martyniuk)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/you-ve-changed-by-ian-williams.jpg\")
You’ve Changed is a novel by Ian Williams. (Random House Canada, Zackery Hobler)<\/p>\n