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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Warm Bodies by John Marrs
A four-year-old in Frozen wellies feeds scraps to a farmer's pigs and spots something odd among the peelings. John Marrs's first short story follows the doting grandmother beside her, whose side job is making bodies disappear, through a month of village spite. Wicked and brisk, with a reveal that arrives too predictably.
Warm Bodies by John Marrs
A four-year-old in Frozen wellies feeds scraps to a farmer's pigs and spots something odd among the peelings. John Marrs's first short story follows the doting grandmother beside her, whose side job is making bodies disappear, through a month of village spite. Wicked and brisk, with a reveal that arrives too predictably.
The Woman I’ve Become by Debra Webb
A child's crayon heart in a bedside drawer, and beneath it a cheap gold necklace that should not exist. Debra Webb's new thriller is about a survivor whose story is being taken from her, and about two girls whose friendship went catastrophically wrong.
The Last King of Faerie by Cassandra Clare
In a Devon meadow, someone has spelled a Latin word out of acorns. By breakfast the boy Kit Herondale swore never to see again is soaking wet on his doorstep. Clare's final Shadowhunter series begins with grief, a faerie prince and a long train ride.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
A homeless woman in a peacock-blue hat corrects a stranger's grammar beside a fountain, then tells him the happiest and worst day of her life. Levi's word-of-mouth hit is tender and often very funny, though nearly everyone in it is redeemed on schedule.
Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? by Judi Dench
Sixty years after leaving her childhood home in York, an actress climbs its narrow stairs to the attic and finds two of her drawings still on the wall. The memoir that follows talks its way through a whole life, and rarely in a straight line.
The Wolves of War by John Gwynne
Beside a duck pond in a Severyan forest, a mother tells her daughter that her strength is the quiet kind that grows in cracks and survives the frost. Gwynne's first Wolfheart novel is built on that idea: a girl who cannot speak, a family that will not let her go, and a witch with iron teeth.
The Silver Kingdom by Radiya Hafiza
A princess who has never walked anywhere unwatched slips out of a palace in a borrowed cloak and spends one night in a city market. Hafiza grows that small freedom into a romantasy about colourism, colonial memory and love by letter, held back by convenient discoveries and an abrupt last page.
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Warm Bodies by John Marrs
A four-year-old in Frozen wellies feeds scraps to a farmer's pigs and spots something odd among the peelings. John Marrs's first short story follows the doting grandmother beside her, whose side job is making bodies disappear, through a month of village spite. Wicked and brisk, with a reveal that arrives too predictably.
The Woman I’ve Become by Debra Webb
A child's crayon heart in a bedside drawer, and beneath it a cheap gold necklace that should not exist. Debra Webb's new thriller is about a survivor whose story is being taken from her, and about two girls whose friendship went catastrophically wrong.
The Last King of Faerie by Cassandra Clare
In a Devon meadow, someone has spelled a Latin word out of acorns. By breakfast the boy Kit Herondale swore never to see again is soaking wet on his doorstep. Clare's final Shadowhunter series begins with grief, a faerie prince and a long train ride.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
A homeless woman in a peacock-blue hat corrects a stranger's grammar beside a fountain, then tells him the happiest and worst day of her life. Levi's word-of-mouth hit is tender and often very funny, though nearly everyone in it is redeemed on schedule.
Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? by Judi Dench
Sixty years after leaving her childhood home in York, an actress climbs its narrow stairs to the attic and finds two of her drawings still on the wall. The memoir that follows talks its way through a whole life, and rarely in a straight line.
