Five novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize.

One former prize winner and two formerly shortlisted authors are among the five authors shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize.

The winner of the $100,000 prize for fiction will be announced at an event in Toronto on Nov. 17.

Finalists will each receive $10,000.

The shortlisted titles were selected from a 14-book longlist announced last month.

A jury comprised of jury chair, author and professor Dionne Irving, and writers Loghan Paylor and Deepa Rajagopalan, selected the shortlist from more than 100 submitted works.

Souvhankham Thammavongsa, who won the Giller in 2020 for her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, has been shortlisted for her debut novel, Pick a Colour.

Mona Awad and Emma Donoghue, who were both shortlisted for the Giller in 2016 for 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and The Wonder, respectively, are on the shortlist together again this year with their novels We Love You, Bunny and The Paris Express.

Rounding out the list are debut author Emma Knight for The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus and a lone male author on the list, Eddy Boudel Tan, for his third novel, The Tiger and the Cosmonaut.

The shortlisted titles are:

• We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad (Scribner Canada/Simon & Schuster Canada)
• The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan (Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (Harper Avenue/HarperCollins Canada)
• The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight (Viking Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)

This year marks the first time the prize will be awarded since title sponsor Scotiabank parted ways with the Giller Foundation earlier this year.