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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Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm
Twice a day an elderly cleaner walks past a stone house in Haifa and stops breathing for about twenty seconds. She could take the longer route. She has never once taken the longer route.
Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm
Twice a day an elderly cleaner walks past a stone house in Haifa and stops breathing for about twenty seconds. She could take the longer route. She has never once taken the longer route.
Kiss of the Black Flame by Helen Scheuerer
She has been in the cell less than a day. She puts her hand through the bars anyway, into the dark where a man nobody has been able to touch for two centuries is lying where the guards dropped him.
Mazywood by Tananarive Due
A movie star stands in the snow outside her own mountain resort, takes an axe to the sign bearing her name, and swings until it falls. Her guests watch from the window. Her children watch from upstairs.
Sometimes I Scare Myself – A Collection of Horror by Jeneva Rose
Three foil-covered dishes appear on the porch of a house nobody local will buy. There are no footprints in the snow around them, and nobody knocks twice. The family inside has been in town for one day.
The Sweetest Fiend by Raven Kennedy
A governor is handed a bill he cannot pay, so the stranger who saved his city names a different price: one hundred and thirty of his people. The governor agrees in a single word, and never asks what they are for.
Free Falling by Lyla Sage
A dead man sits across the table pleading with her to put a coat over her head and say something she has never told anyone, so that he can spend an hour with the woman who froze to death waiting for him. She is running out of secrets.
The Mirror of Infinite Endings by Stephanie Garber
A building with opinions rattles its cupboards to break up a kiss, because there are two dozen pies still to bake and a clock that needs painting. The inn has a reopening tomorrow, and it has decided nobody is getting distracted tonight.
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Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm
Twice a day an elderly cleaner walks past a stone house in Haifa and stops breathing for about twenty seconds. She could take the longer route. She has never once taken the longer route.
Kiss of the Black Flame by Helen Scheuerer
She has been in the cell less than a day. She puts her hand through the bars anyway, into the dark where a man nobody has been able to touch for two centuries is lying where the guards dropped him.
Mazywood by Tananarive Due
A movie star stands in the snow outside her own mountain resort, takes an axe to the sign bearing her name, and swings until it falls. Her guests watch from the window. Her children watch from upstairs.
Sometimes I Scare Myself – A Collection of Horror by Jeneva Rose
Three foil-covered dishes appear on the porch of a house nobody local will buy. There are no footprints in the snow around them, and nobody knocks twice. The family inside has been in town for one day.
The Sweetest Fiend by Raven Kennedy
A governor is handed a bill he cannot pay, so the stranger who saved his city names a different price: one hundred and thirty of his people. The governor agrees in a single word, and never asks what they are for.
