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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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Before she turns the key a second time, a girl in a dressing gown tells a cat about the afternoon her father was stung thirty-nine times. It is the whole novella in miniature: bravery is going back when you already know what is waiting.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Before she turns the key a second time, a girl in a dressing gown tells a cat about the afternoon her father was stung thirty-nine times. It is the whole novella in miniature: bravery is going back when you already know what is waiting.
Misery by Stephen King
A former nurse who has read every Misery Chastain romance twice explains to their captive author why the serial she loved as a girl cheated her, and why his first new chapter cheats too. King's novel is a horror story, a comedy of manners and the sharpest portrait of a reader in his fiction.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
A carpenter sits alone by a radio at the edge of an impossible stairwell, telling jokes to the dark while his brother goes down. Danielewski's cult novel is a haunted house story, a love story and a young man's breakdown in the margins, and it is as hard going as it is unforgettable.
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
A young man walks blindfolded to the well behind a Michigan safe house, a rope tied around his waist, counting the turns of the crank. On the last bucket the sound he keeps hearing comes from somewhere it should not. Malerman's debut turns a household of strangers into a study of trust.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
A woman knocks on her older sister's screen door after midnight under a tangled double halo of moonlight, and the first thing she says is that there is a problem in the car. Hoffman's novel about two Owens sisters is about what love costs, and who pays.
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
A small girl comes home on the eve of All Saints with her arms full of white flowers and asks the two men who raised her which of them made her what she is. Rice's debut finds its true subject in that question, even when its narrator would rather keep talking.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
A small boy learns his letters by tracing the names of the dead with his fingers, and a cemetery full of grumbling ghosts becomes his school. Gaiman's 2008 novel is a tender, funny coming-of-age story disguised as a ghost story, with one weak chapter and a heroine it does not quite know what to do with.
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Before she turns the key a second time, a girl in a dressing gown tells a cat about the afternoon her father was stung thirty-nine times. It is the whole novella in miniature: bravery is going back when you already know what is waiting.
Misery by Stephen King
A former nurse who has read every Misery Chastain romance twice explains to their captive author why the serial she loved as a girl cheated her, and why his first new chapter cheats too. King's novel is a horror story, a comedy of manners and the sharpest portrait of a reader in his fiction.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
A carpenter sits alone by a radio at the edge of an impossible stairwell, telling jokes to the dark while his brother goes down. Danielewski's cult novel is a haunted house story, a love story and a young man's breakdown in the margins, and it is as hard going as it is unforgettable.
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
A young man walks blindfolded to the well behind a Michigan safe house, a rope tied around his waist, counting the turns of the crank. On the last bucket the sound he keeps hearing comes from somewhere it should not. Malerman's debut turns a household of strangers into a study of trust.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
A woman knocks on her older sister's screen door after midnight under a tangled double halo of moonlight, and the first thing she says is that there is a problem in the car. Hoffman's novel about two Owens sisters is about what love costs, and who pays.
