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nytbooksOn Monday night, David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his spare rags-to-riches novel, "Flesh."“It’s just not like any other book,” the author Roddy Doyle, who chaired this year’s judging panel, told a news conference. The novel follows Istvan, a lonely Hungarian teenager who unexpectedly rises to the height of British society. The sparseness of Szalay’s writing compels readers to “climb into the novel and be involved,” Doyle added.“Flesh” beat five other shortlisted titles, including Susan Choi’s “Flashlight,” Kiran Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” Katie Kitamura’s “Audition,” Ben Markovits’s “The Rest of Our Lives” and Andrew Miller’s “The Land in Winter.”One of literature’s pre-eminent awards, the Booker Prize is given each year to the book deemed to be best novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. Last year, Samantha Harvey triumphed with “Orbital,” a novel set aboard the International Space Station. In recent years, the Booker has acquired a global following, and winning titles often become hits on both sides of the Atlantic. The winning author receives a cash prize of 50,000 pounds, about $65,800.Tap the link in our bio to learn more. Photo by Ian West/Press Association, via Associated Press