Where to Start With the Booker Prize 2026 Longlist
Thirteen novels, one shortlist in September, and not enough evenings. Here is what each book on the Booker 2026 longlist actually is, and which one I would open first.
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Killing Sadie by Rachel Peterson
Spoiler-free review of Killing Sadie by Rachel Peterson, a YA thriller told through unreliable witness statements. What works, what stumbles, and who should read it.
Getting Away With Murder by Shari Lapena
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Sea of Charms by Sarah Beth Durst
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Meet Me in Paris by Kristin Harmel
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The Gilded Blade by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Extracurricular by Rachel Lynn Solomon
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Where to Start With the Booker Prize 2026 Longlist
Thirteen novels, one shortlist in September, and not enough evenings. Here is what each book on the Booker 2026 longlist actually is, and which one I would open first.
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The Disappearers by Marlon James
Seven men sit in a rehearsal room in 1988 Kingston and take turns telling each other the worst thing that was ever done to them. One of them tells his laughing. Nothing else I have read this year has taken so much out of me.
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
I laughed out loud on a train at page nine and then spent the last fifty pages feeling genuinely sad about a Swedish woman who does not exist. Luke Kennard's third novel is a strange, wonderful, baggy thing.
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams
Three times this novel stops dead and turns into a play. Once it is seven gardeners arguing about paradise. Once it is a song sung by mould. I have never read anything quite like it and I am still not sure I liked being inside it.
Switzy by Emma Cline
A nine-year-old plays his grandfather a piece of Mahler and the old man makes him turn it off. I have been thinking about that scene for three days. Emma Cline's new novel is quiet, funny and completely merciless.
All Them Dogs by Djamel White
I spent two days inside the head of a man who would frighten me on a footpath, and by the end I did not want to leave him there. Djamel White's first novel is very funny until the exact second it isn't.