Where to Start With the Booker Prize 2026 Longlist
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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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The Thoroughbreds by Elin Hilderbrand
In a windowless basement room, six people sit on a raised stage behind a long table, and three folding chairs face them from the floor below. The room was built this way on purpose.
The Thoroughbreds by Elin Hilderbrand
In a windowless basement room, six people sit on a raised stage behind a long table, and three folding chairs face them from the floor below. The room was built this way on purpose.
Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
On the morning of 11 September 2001, a woman sits in a cab heading downtown to a psychiatrist's office in the South Tower, listening to the radio discuss another mother's competency hearing.
Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo
At a day care in New Haven, the children keep climbing the ladder to the slide and going down it again, crying the whole time, while a woman in corduroy overalls promises them ten more minutes of recess.
Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
A woman rides home from a party apologising for the way she said her husband's name, and works out somewhere on the overpass that she is in serious trouble.
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason
A woman kneels in the dark to retrieve a dangling battery pack from the floor while the author she is wiring up stares past her at the stage, unaware anyone is there.
To All the Men I’ve Killed Before by Katy Brent
A young actor comes back from a meeting at a producer's house, sits at a kitchen table and explains, calmly, why there is no point at all in telling the police.
Love Unlocked by Cecelia Ahern
A grown woman sets small traps along the hallway of her own flat, leaves her bedroom door open, and waits for five in the morning, because nothing bad ever happens after five.
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The Thoroughbreds by Elin Hilderbrand
In a windowless basement room, six people sit on a raised stage behind a long table, and three folding chairs face them from the floor below. The room was built this way on purpose.
Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
On the morning of 11 September 2001, a woman sits in a cab heading downtown to a psychiatrist's office in the South Tower, listening to the radio discuss another mother's competency hearing.
Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo
At a day care in New Haven, the children keep climbing the ladder to the slide and going down it again, crying the whole time, while a woman in corduroy overalls promises them ten more minutes of recess.
Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
A woman rides home from a party apologising for the way she said her husband's name, and works out somewhere on the overpass that she is in serious trouble.
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason
A woman kneels in the dark to retrieve a dangling battery pack from the floor while the author she is wiring up stares past her at the stage, unaware anyone is there.
