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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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.
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
A woman who has never bought jewellery in her life stands at a strip-mall counter, choosing diamond studs for the daughter-in-law she hopes will visit her. She has been saving for this since her son graduated.
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Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb
High on a beam above a playhouse crowd, a hunted young woman watches a comedy about a fake courtship while the demon beside her watches only her. Plumb's gothic romance is about what happens when a bargain stops feeling like one.
Hallowed Bones by Lucy Smoke
A crow throws itself at a dormitory window until a frightened girl lets it in. Lucy Smoke's Salem novel is full of creatures asking Haven Wardwell to open doors she would rather keep shut, and it is at its best when the asking turns into horror.
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
A simple-minded man sits in a jail cell asking a fortune teller a hypothetical question about a friend in trouble, and receives an answer that sends him out that night with a baseball bat. The best scene in the book, and the one worth an evening.
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
In Fascist Italy, owning a copy carried the death penalty. It was printed in secret in Sweden and smuggled into Norway, and the King decorated Steinbeck after the war. Meanwhile American critics were calling it an apology for the enemy.
It Ends Here by Heidi Perks
A wife replays the doorbell footage of her husband leaving the house, searching his pixelated face for a clue. Heidi Perks's siege novel is less interested in the café where the gun is than in the families on the far side of the police tape, each discovering a morning they knew nothing about.