Where to Start With the Booker Prize 2026 Shortlist
Six books, seven weeks until the winner, and one of them runs to six hundred pages. Which of the shortlisted novels to open first, which to save for a group, and which one I think wins.
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.
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Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
The book that made Steinbeck's name is also the one his admirers find hardest to defend. A group reading it will spend more time on what the author thinks of his characters than on anything the characters do, and that is the right conversation to have.
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
The book that made Steinbeck's name is also the one his admirers find hardest to defend. A group reading it will spend more time on what the author thinks of his characters than on anything the characters do, and that is the right conversation to have.
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.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
A novel in which almost nothing happens, twice. Steinbeck turns a Monterey back street into an ecosystem and refuses to arrange its people into a story, which is either the most generous thing he ever did or the easiest.
Protocols – An Operating Manual for the Human Body by Andrew D. Huberman
Two inhales through the nose, the second one short and sharp, then a long exhale through the mouth. Dogs do it before they settle down for a nap. Huberman wants you to do it at your desk, and it is the best page in a very long book.
Book Club Confidential by Julie Hatcher
Three women stuck in a hotel hallway lined with paintings of rabbits in velvet jackets, hunting for the hidden door of a speakeasy. The key is sitting in a grandfather clock that has stopped. It is the only problem they solve easily all month.
Timshel: The One Word Your Book Club Will Argue About for an Hour
Three men in a kitchen disagree about a Hebrew verb, and six hundred pages depend on who is right. Here is how to run that argument at a meeting, including the part where Steinbeck's reading turns out to be contested.
East of Eden on Netflix: Did the Show Fix the Book’s Biggest Problem?
Steinbeck told us Cathy Ames was born without a conscience and then wrote four hundred pages that contradict him. Zoe Kazan's adaptation takes the other side. Whether that is a repair or a rewrite is the argument worth having.
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Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
The book that made Steinbeck's name is also the one his admirers find hardest to defend. A group reading it will spend more time on what the author thinks of his characters than on anything the characters do, and that is the right conversation to have.
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.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
A novel in which almost nothing happens, twice. Steinbeck turns a Monterey back street into an ecosystem and refuses to arrange its people into a story, which is either the most generous thing he ever did or the easiest.
Protocols – An Operating Manual for the Human Body by Andrew D. Huberman
Two inhales through the nose, the second one short and sharp, then a long exhale through the mouth. Dogs do it before they settle down for a nap. Huberman wants you to do it at your desk, and it is the best page in a very long book.
Book Club Confidential by Julie Hatcher
Three women stuck in a hotel hallway lined with paintings of rabbits in velvet jackets, hunting for the hidden door of a speakeasy. The key is sitting in a grandfather clock that has stopped. It is the only problem they solve easily all month.
