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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Falling Like Snow by Misty Wilson
A girl who believes in love at first sight and a boy who quietly does not spend a December arguing the point across a small Connecticut town. Wilson's second Bramble Falls novel is generous, funny and tender about loss, though its heroine is the last person in town to see the obvious.
Falling Like Snow by Misty Wilson
A girl who believes in love at first sight and a boy who quietly does not spend a December arguing the point across a small Connecticut town. Wilson's second Bramble Falls novel is generous, funny and tender about loss, though its heroine is the last person in town to see the obvious.
Falling Like Leaves by Misty Wilson
At a pumpkin-carving party in a Connecticut town square, a girl from Manhattan carves a lumpy portrait of the boy across from her, and he laughs until he cries. A warm, very funny autumn romance about a teenager borrowing someone else's ambitions, let down by a hurried finale.
Royal Witch by Philippa Gregory
Spurned by the man she loves, a duchess-in-waiting turns heartbreak into a programme of ambition, then into something no priest would sanction. Gregory's portrait of Eleanor Cobham is bold, chilling and very funny in places, though the novel's long middle keeps circling the same grievance.
Chain Reaction by Lee Child and Andrew Child
Two hired killers slip into two motel rooms in Palo Alto with cloned key cards. One meets Reacher's fist, the other meets Susan Turner and a very heavy novel. The 31st Reacher book is a fine, fair-play hunt with a moral bill nobody pays.
When the World Was Happy by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
A seventeenth birthday in El Paso: a sister at the piano, a brother singing, the guests dancing. Then a school shooting, and a year in which the boy who sang refuses to. Sáenz's final novel is a hymn and an argument at once, and sometimes the argument wins.
Queen of Lombard Street by Lisa Kleypas
A fire banked at midnight, a bottle of Rioja, and a list of Welsh words for rain. Then the clock strikes and the man in the opposite chair becomes the butler again. Kleypas builds a Victorian romance out of terms, contracts and a kitchen full of parolees.
Just the Good Parts by Robbie Couch
A boy steps out of a candle shop's upstairs kitchen into a snowy wood at night, and finds a stranger by a bonfire whose axe is glued to his hand with sap. Robbie Couch's fifth novel is a ghost story about memory, kind and funny, a little too keen to explain itself.
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Falling Like Snow by Misty Wilson
A girl who believes in love at first sight and a boy who quietly does not spend a December arguing the point across a small Connecticut town. Wilson's second Bramble Falls novel is generous, funny and tender about loss, though its heroine is the last person in town to see the obvious.
Falling Like Leaves by Misty Wilson
At a pumpkin-carving party in a Connecticut town square, a girl from Manhattan carves a lumpy portrait of the boy across from her, and he laughs until he cries. A warm, very funny autumn romance about a teenager borrowing someone else's ambitions, let down by a hurried finale.
Royal Witch by Philippa Gregory
Spurned by the man she loves, a duchess-in-waiting turns heartbreak into a programme of ambition, then into something no priest would sanction. Gregory's portrait of Eleanor Cobham is bold, chilling and very funny in places, though the novel's long middle keeps circling the same grievance.
Chain Reaction by Lee Child and Andrew Child
Two hired killers slip into two motel rooms in Palo Alto with cloned key cards. One meets Reacher's fist, the other meets Susan Turner and a very heavy novel. The 31st Reacher book is a fine, fair-play hunt with a moral bill nobody pays.
When the World Was Happy by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
A seventeenth birthday in El Paso: a sister at the piano, a brother singing, the guests dancing. Then a school shooting, and a year in which the boy who sang refuses to. Sáenz's final novel is a hymn and an argument at once, and sometimes the argument wins.
