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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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.
Adam and Eve by Jeffrey Archer
Two babies are christened together in a Norfolk church in January 1919. Afterwards one family drinks champagne at the Hall and the other eats ham sandwiches at the pub, and only the vicar and the doctor attend both. Archer's last novel is about who gets to cross that line.
Ply by Hernan Diaz
A staircase goes down further than a building should allow, and at the bottom a dying woman switches on a ceiling of light over a laboratory that cost her everything she had. She needs a thief to steal a city's worth of electricity for her.
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw
Two people who have spent their lives being watched meet at a creek behind a closed diner, two hours from anyone who would recognise them. What one of them says next undoes forty years of careful construction, and starts the best novel about church respectability in years.
Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros
She has refused the tug in her chest for hours. Now she walks into the open, spreads her arms wide, and shouts at a dragon to take her. This is the chapter the whole collection is built to hold.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Russian schooner runs into Whitby harbour in a summer gale with a dead captain lashed to the wheel, and something leaps from the deck and up the cliff to the churchyard. Stoker's novel is at its finest on that Yorkshire coast, and its finest character is the young woman who files every page.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Dawn in a flower market, a young man eating cherries a carter would not take money for, and then a painted mouth that has changed overnight. Wilde's only novel still unsettles because its horror is so polite, though its last act leans on coincidence.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A lawyer's clerk lays two letters side by side by the fire and notices that the hands match, only sloped differently. Stevenson's novella is a study of a face nobody can describe and a voice that finally describes itself, short, sharp and still unnerving.
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
The lights go out at Monk's Piece, the young men compete to tell the silliest ghost story, and the old lawyer of the house gets up and walks out into the frost. He has one real story. He will only write it down.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hidden in a lean-to against a poor family's cottage, a creature nobody has ever spoken kindly to learns language by listening through a crack in the wall. Shelley's novel is at its most moving there, and its stiff narrators and convenient plotting never quite drown that voice out.