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.
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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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My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina Simon
A river guide tells a campfire story about a white desert bloom that steals a person's will and leaves them awake for it. Nine chapters later, a luxury skincare brand is selling that flower as self-care. Nina Simon's second novel is a comedy about sisters wrapped around a very cold idea.
My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina Simon
A river guide tells a campfire story about a white desert bloom that steals a person's will and leaves them awake for it. Nine chapters later, a luxury skincare brand is selling that flower as self-care. Nina Simon's second novel is a comedy about sisters wrapped around a very cold idea.
Immortal Rose by Alexandra Bracken
Past midnight, a feared nobleman kneels on his own kitchen floor and sings a tragic fairy ballad to a spaniel who will not otherwise eat. That scene, not the kissing, is what this Regency romantasy is really about.
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
A contract killer rides the tourist ferry around Manhattan, disappointed that the Statue of Liberty is closed for repairs. The closing Harlem Trilogy novel keeps handing its interior monologues to exactly the people who should not get them.
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
A hired thug stands in a drug dealer's hallway and refuses a simple request, and the novel stops everything to explain why. That digression is the best thing in a book stuffed with them.
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
A furniture salesman walks Riverside Drive at night, picks a building, picks a window, and imagines the life inside it. Whitehead's 1960s Harlem novel is about everything standing between that man and that window.
Scion by James Islington
A contract killer stands in a category three storm, soaked to the skin, politely negotiating with a lion the size of a horse. Islington's cyberpunk standalone is short, savage and much stranger than its premise suggests.
The French Illusion by John Grisham
A mother in Maryland spends six months telling her friends her son-in-law is recovering from bad shellfish in a Paris hospital. He is not in a hospital. Grisham's fortieth novel is about the lies decent people are ordered to tell, and the bill that comes with them.
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My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina Simon
A river guide tells a campfire story about a white desert bloom that steals a person's will and leaves them awake for it. Nine chapters later, a luxury skincare brand is selling that flower as self-care. Nina Simon's second novel is a comedy about sisters wrapped around a very cold idea.
Immortal Rose by Alexandra Bracken
Past midnight, a feared nobleman kneels on his own kitchen floor and sings a tragic fairy ballad to a spaniel who will not otherwise eat. That scene, not the kissing, is what this Regency romantasy is really about.
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
A contract killer rides the tourist ferry around Manhattan, disappointed that the Statue of Liberty is closed for repairs. The closing Harlem Trilogy novel keeps handing its interior monologues to exactly the people who should not get them.
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
A hired thug stands in a drug dealer's hallway and refuses a simple request, and the novel stops everything to explain why. That digression is the best thing in a book stuffed with them.
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
A furniture salesman walks Riverside Drive at night, picks a building, picks a window, and imagines the life inside it. Whitehead's 1960s Harlem novel is about everything standing between that man and that window.
