The judges for the 2025 Voss Literary Prize for the best novel published in 2024 long-listed the following titles from the 52 eligible titles which were submitted by publishers:

Jumaana Abdu, Translations

Melanie Cheng, The Burrow

Michelle De Kretser, Theory & Practice

Rodney Hall, Vortex

Dylin Hardcastle, A Language of Limbs

Julie Janson, Compassion

Gail Jones, One Another

Siang Lu, Ghost Cities

Fiona McFarlane, Highway 13

Raeden Richardson, The Degenerates