The longlist for the 2025 Giller Prize has been announced, and the 14-book list of titles vying for the annual $100,000 prize this year includes a mix of works from veteran and debut authors and independent and multinational publishers.

The longlisted books were chosen from more than 100 submitted works by a jury comprised of jury chair, author and professor Dionne Irving, and writers Loghan Paylor and Deepa Rajagopalan.

The shortlist for this year’s Giller will be announced on Oct. 6, with the winner to be named on Nov. 17.

Among the longlisted titles are two short story collections, three former Giller winners, four debut authors, and four titles from independent Canadian presses.

The longlisted books are:

• Other Worlds by André Alexis (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
• We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad (Scribner Canada/Simon & Schuster Canada)
• An Astonishment of Stars by Kirti Bhadresa (ECW Press)
• The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan (Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt and Susan Ouriou, trans. (Book*hug Press)
• Still by Joanna Cockerline (The Porcupine’s Quill)
• The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (Harper Avenue/HarperCollins Canada)
• The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy (Lake Union Publishing)
• The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight (Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Wild Life by Amanda Leduc (Random House Canada)
• We, The Kindling by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek (Alchemy by Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press)
• Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• You’ve Changed by Ian Williams (Random House Canada)

This year’s prize will be the first to be awarded since the Giller parted ways with lead sponsor Scotiabank earlier this year. The prize’s 20-year partnership with the bank had been dogged by controversy since its 2023 gala, when protesters took to the stage to protest Scotiabank 1832 Asset Management’s stake in Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems Inc. Three people were arrested and charged, and a group of Canadian authors called for charges to be dropped.

Charges against Rachelle Friesen were dropped last week, CanLit Responds announced on Monday. Charges against the other four protesters were dropped in late 2024.