Books by David Szalay
“Flesh explores the ways power, money, and desire intertwine, and how loneliness can endure even amid apparent success. The writing is precise and unsentimental, yet it is brutally affecting and intimate. It can be read as study of class, aspiration, and the quiet compromises that shape people. One of the things that I find remarkable is its subtle exploration of how the marks left by youth can echo through an entire life.” Read more...
The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist
Ayá»ÌbĂĄmi AdĂ©bĂĄyá»Ì, Novelist
Interviews where books by David Szalay were recommended
The Best Novels of 2025: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Ayá»ÌbĂĄmi AdĂ©bĂĄyá»Ì
We spoke to Ayá»ÌbĂĄmi AdĂ©bĂĄyá»Ì, the novelist and judge on this yearâs Booker Prize panel, about their 2025 shortlist: a varied line-up of six novels, from a work of historical fiction set in a frozen rural England to an experimental âRorschach blotâ of a novel told in two conflicting parts.
Booker Prize-Winning Novels
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize was Orbital, by Samantha Harvey, the first novel to win the prize that’s set in space. Below, our list of all the Booker Prize-winning novels of the last twenty years.
