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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Silent Nightmares by Chuck Palahniuk
Thirty children walk out of the woods at night, stand in a line at the edge of a mountain village, and sing. Twenty-three villagers are certain they recognise a dead child. The farmer's dogs, which have fought bears and boars, will not go within ten feet of them.
Silent Nightmares by Chuck Palahniuk
Thirty children walk out of the woods at night, stand in a line at the edge of a mountain village, and sing. Twenty-three villagers are certain they recognise a dead child. The farmer's dogs, which have fought bears and boars, will not go within ten feet of them.
Nightjars by Michael Wehunt
A pregnant poet stands in the aisle of a hardware store choosing between garden stakes, buys five of them and a rubber mallet and a tool belt, and practises drawing a stake from her hip under the fluorescent lights while the cashier watches.
Mestra by Madeline Miller
A farmer buys a cow, and his pregnant wife comes out of the house to rub its forehead and name it Lucky. The cow is a girl who has been sold eleven times that fortnight, and she waits until after the evening milking to run away, because she thinks they have earned that much.
Cursed City by Kate Golden
A demon crime lord in a stolen uniform, hands still wet with somebody's blood, haggles an eleven-year-old down from thirty dollars to twenty-five for five boxes of charity cookies. He eats one, throws the other four boxes in a bin, and tells her thank you.
The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke by Jane Green
An eleven-year-old steals four eggs from the neighbour's chickens, cuts the mould off the bread, arranges the plate on the good tray with a linen napkin and cuts flowers for a jar. She carries it upstairs to her mother, who looks at it and says she is not hungry.
The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic by Malcolm Gladwell
A doctor asks a room of nine-year-olds how many have lost someone to a shooting, and every hand goes up. Then he teaches them to pack a bullet wound and hands out kits for their backpacks. One girl comes back the next week because she has used hers.
The Velvet Knife by Maureen Johnson
In 1976 a lonely twenty-year-old is handed her own rent money on a mountain lawn and told to tear it up. Fifty years later, in a New York apartment building, a teenage detective starts noticing that the jars in a dead woman's kitchen are shelved in the wrong order.
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Silent Nightmares by Chuck Palahniuk
Thirty children walk out of the woods at night, stand in a line at the edge of a mountain village, and sing. Twenty-three villagers are certain they recognise a dead child. The farmer's dogs, which have fought bears and boars, will not go within ten feet of them.
Nightjars by Michael Wehunt
A pregnant poet stands in the aisle of a hardware store choosing between garden stakes, buys five of them and a rubber mallet and a tool belt, and practises drawing a stake from her hip under the fluorescent lights while the cashier watches.
Mestra by Madeline Miller
A farmer buys a cow, and his pregnant wife comes out of the house to rub its forehead and name it Lucky. The cow is a girl who has been sold eleven times that fortnight, and she waits until after the evening milking to run away, because she thinks they have earned that much.
Cursed City by Kate Golden
A demon crime lord in a stolen uniform, hands still wet with somebody's blood, haggles an eleven-year-old down from thirty dollars to twenty-five for five boxes of charity cookies. He eats one, throws the other four boxes in a bin, and tells her thank you.
The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke by Jane Green
An eleven-year-old steals four eggs from the neighbour's chickens, cuts the mould off the bread, arranges the plate on the good tray with a linen napkin and cuts flowers for a jar. She carries it upstairs to her mother, who looks at it and says she is not hungry.
