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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 Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A woman who grew up in motel rooms stands in a stranger's kitchen, smelling the jars in a spice drawer. Around her, the summer of 1974 is coming apart. Taylor Jenkins Reid's tenth novel is a hustlers' road story whose real subject is what two women owe each other.
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.
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Where to Start With the Booker Prize 2026 Shortlist
Six books, seven weeks until the winner, and one of them runs to six hundred pages. Which of the shortlisted novels to open first, which to save for a group, and which one I think wins.
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.
What to Read Before Nolan’s Odyssey
You have a ticket and not much time. Here is what I would actually read before Nolan's Odyssey, sorted by how many free evenings you have between now and the cinema.
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The Steps by Sylvester Stallone
Two floors under the New York Public Library, a guard unlocks an oak box and shows a broke usher a scroll of narrow paper strips sealed end to end with wax, every inch of it covered in a dead poet's handwriting. The usher goes home and starts writing.
Burn of the Everflame by Penn Cole
Alone on a sacred island, a queen survives on pond weed and conversations with a friend's grave. The final Kindred's Curse novel follows her back into a war against her own father, and it is at its best when it lets other people tell the story, though it is far longer than its plot needs.
The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A woman who grew up in motel rooms stands in a stranger's kitchen, smelling the jars in a spice drawer. Around her, the summer of 1974 is coming apart. Taylor Jenkins Reid's tenth novel is a hustlers' road story whose real subject is what two women owe each other.
Legally Yours, Violet Lopez by Elba Luz
In a prep-school washroom, a scholarship girl haggles a bribe up tenfold and then walks away. Elba Luz builds a funny, tender YA romance around a student trial, a widowed father and a double cross, though its last act cuts moral corners it never examines.
Too Hexed to Handle by Charlotte Ingham
Two years after a festival night left her cursed and grieving, a cheerful innkeeper with a lethal mouth and a forbidden appetite follows a stranger's treasure hunt beside the brooding man who buries monsters behind her barn. Ingham's romance is funny and tender, and it stumbles when the plot takes over.