Anne Carson Wins the Nobel: Which of Her Books Should Your Book Club Read?
The 2026 Nobel laureate writes verse novels, tango essays and boxed elegies. Here is which of Anne Carson's books work best in a group, what to ask about each, and how to run the meeting.
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The Keeper by Ana Huang
A nature documentary on a weeknight sofa is where a closed-off goalkeeper first lets his daughter's nanny see him. Ana Huang ends her football trilogy with a tender single-dad romance, a child who steals every scene and a custody threat, though the public coldness and private warmth cycle runs long.
Land of Ghosts by E L James
At a Canterbury graveside, a girl watches a cloud turn into a crocodile and turns to tell a brother who is in the smallest coffin. E L James's young adult debut is a sincere novel of mourning that a jealous ghost romance keeps trying to take over.
A Married Little Christmas by Abby Jimenez
A boutique manager drives three hours north through the snow, convinced her best friend has been kidnapped by a tree farmer. Instead she finds a hot chocolate shop, a prenup to write and a best man who hates the season. The best of three linked Christmas novellas.
A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J. Maas
Nesta stands alone in a Velaris alley after a concert, listening to the one sound a music-catching orb was never meant to keep. Maas's sixth Prythian novel is about sisters, estrangement and a song meant to bring the lost home, and it is braver and stranger than the series has been in years, if frustratingly unfinished.
Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones
Four Blackfeet in a borrowed parade RV drive two thousand miles to bring a child home from the grave he was left in. Jones makes grief, history and slapstick share one cramped camper, and most of the time the fit is perfect.
Broken Rival by Tessa Bailey
Hot chocolate, corn dogs, a prom proposal over the stadium speakers, and then gunfire three miles north. A girl from the future who has learned to smile through everything finally stops, and a dark, generous love story begins.
Victorious by V.E. Schwab
A careful psychiatrist in Merit learns that one patient's nightmares can draw blood, and the discovery reshapes the agency that hunts people like Victor Vale. Schwab's closing Villains novel finds its horror in a gentle voice and its warmth in a makeshift family, though it takes its time getting there.
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The Hollow by Michael Connelly
In a memory-care clinic, a hypnotist plays the easy-listening hits of 1965 and warms a frozen dinner so that an old probation officer can remember the day a boy died. Harry Bosch, the boy's friend, sits in the corner taking notes. Connelly's twenty-sixth Bosch novel is about the debts that childhood leaves.
Public Access Afterworld by Jane Schoenbrun
A travelling picture show sets up its screen in the New Mexico desert in 1945, and one scientist's wife cannot understand why everyone is applauding. Schoenbrun's first novel follows that unease across eighty years of screens, through a cult, a moderator's night shift and a trans woman's fight to stay herself.
To Dream in Darkness by Ann Liang
On a frozen mountainside a healer goddess holds a blade to Death's throat and finds it already ringed with old scars. Ann Liang's second adult novel is at its best with its mortals and its outcasts, and at its weakest when the prose refuses to stop decorating.
Mortal Things by Marie Lu
Two girls shelter from a Brooklyn downpour on a school's front steps, one of them carrying a bow in her backpack. Years later one will trade her life for the other's, and the friend she saved will not remember her name.
Scorpion Deep by C.G. Drews
A boy lies on a floating dock under his family's cottage and lets the sea wash his nosebleed away while his father whistles above him. Drews turns that image into a drowned-folklore horror about silence, friendship heartbreak and the danger of being wanted. Superb, if tonally restless in its middle.