Fourteen books have been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. The $100,000 award annually recognizes the best in Canadian fiction.

The 2025 longlist features 12 novels and two short story collections, covering a wide range of subjects, from a 1800s train disaster, to life working in a nail salon and the stories of abducted children in Uganda.

It includes three previous winners of the prize. André Alexis won in 2015 for and is now on the list for his short story collection Ian Williams won the prize in 2019 for his novel, Reproduction , and is on this year's longlist for . Souvankham Thammavongsa won the 2020 Giller Prize for her short story collection How To Pronounce Knife and is now honoured for her novel .

Three of the authors have connections to the CBC Literary Prizes

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