Booker Prize 2026 Winner: Should Your Book Club Read The End of Everything?
M. John Harrison won the Booker Prize 2026 with The End of Everything. In September I told groups not to start with it. Here is how to make it work if your club wants the winner anyway.
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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
A homeless woman in a peacock-blue hat corrects a stranger's grammar beside a fountain, then tells him the happiest and worst day of her life. Levi's word-of-mouth hit is tender and often very funny, though nearly everyone in it is redeemed on schedule.
Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? by Judi Dench
Sixty years after leaving her childhood home in York, an actress climbs its narrow stairs to the attic and finds two of her drawings still on the wall. The memoir that follows talks its way through a whole life, and rarely in a straight line.
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.
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Taryn tells her twin a fairy tale about a murderous bridegroom before she admits what she did. Holly Black's illustrated Elfhame collection is at its best when its liars and tyrants explain themselves, and at its weakest when it asks newcomers to keep up.
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Booker Prize 2026 Winner: Should Your Book Club Read The End of Everything?
M. John Harrison won the Booker Prize 2026 with The End of Everything. In September I told groups not to start with it. Here is how to make it work if your club wants the winner anyway.
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Two girls practise a relay handoff in a dusty Georgia yard minutes before men with guns arrive. Karin Slaughter's 2017 novel follows those sisters into middle age, when a school shooting reopens the night that split them. Harrowing, clever about the law and generous to its survivors, though its last act explains more than it dramatises.
The Game by Sadie Kincaid
A long kitchen table on a Colorado ranch, two people pretending not to notice each other's knees. Sadie Kincaid closes her Wages of Sin duet with a romance about a woman learning to want things for herself, and lets the conspiracy around it fall apart too easily.