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.
Greek Myth Retellings to Read After Circe
Finishing Circe leaves a very specific hole. Here are the Greek myth retellings that actually fill it, and the ones that only pretend to.
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You’ll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner
A spoiler-free look at You'll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner: a thirty-year-old disappearance, a 1790s midwife's diary, and a town that has been lying about itself for two centuries.
You’ll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner
A spoiler-free look at You'll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner: a thirty-year-old disappearance, a 1790s midwife's diary, and a town that has been lying about itself for two centuries.
Immortal Game by Allison Saft
A spoiler-free look at Immortal Game by Allison Saft: a burnt-out teenage grandmaster, a faerie king's tournament, and a rescue mission that stops to ask whether anyone wanted rescuing.
A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
A spoiler-free look at A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett: a third Ana and Din case built on a fungus that turns people into obedient tools, and a detective who is quietly coming apart.
Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves
A spoiler-free look at Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves, the dark academia romance where a killer courts a film student by leaving her crime scenes to read, and where the murder mystery underneath never quite gets solved.
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.
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You’ll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner
A spoiler-free look at You'll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner: a thirty-year-old disappearance, a 1790s midwife's diary, and a town that has been lying about itself for two centuries.
Immortal Game by Allison Saft
A spoiler-free look at Immortal Game by Allison Saft: a burnt-out teenage grandmaster, a faerie king's tournament, and a rescue mission that stops to ask whether anyone wanted rescuing.
A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett
A spoiler-free look at A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett: a third Ana and Din case built on a fungus that turns people into obedient tools, and a detective who is quietly coming apart.
Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves
A spoiler-free look at Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves, the dark academia romance where a killer courts a film student by leaving her crime scenes to read, and where the murder mystery underneath never quite gets solved.
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.
