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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The Game by Sadie Kincaid
A long kitchen table on a Colorado ranch, two people pretending not to notice each other's knees. Sadie Kincaid closes her Wages of Sin duet with a romance about a woman learning to want things for herself, and lets the conspiracy around it fall apart too easily.
The Game by Sadie Kincaid
A long kitchen table on a Colorado ranch, two people pretending not to notice each other's knees. Sadie Kincaid closes her Wages of Sin duet with a romance about a woman learning to want things for herself, and lets the conspiracy around it fall apart too easily.
To Vex & To Hex by Neena Noon
A latte hangs frozen in midair, a stranger in a tweed blazer walks out from behind the shelves, and a bookshop witch loses her grip on the spell. Neena Noon's debut is a funny, frank romance about two lonely people, sometimes let down by a plot that refuses to let them talk.
Coldwire by Chloe Gong
In a city under quarantine, strangers on their balconies sing to draw a police drone away from a fugitive. Chloe Gong's cyberpunk YA novel is full of moments like that, generous and strange, inside a story about a corporation that owns the virtual world and the two girls it has decided to use.
Captive Traitor King by Brigid Kemmerer
In a dark palace corridor, a lonely princess counts her steps and asks a former assassin to come back tomorrow. Kemmerer's second Braided Fate novel is at its best in moments like that one, and weakest when the war outside finally knocks.
Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi
A laid-off federal writer comes home to a Darke County village whose meat plant is about to close, just as its residents start bursting open and coming back as something stranger and happier. John Scalzi's comic horror novel is generous, profane and sharp about money, though it settles its villains too easily.
Defy the Dusk by Danielle L. Jensen
Stranded at dusk on a stone platform in a lake she has just made, the woman blamed for ending the world has to decide whether to save the man who came to kill her. Jensen's first Sundering novel builds a whole romance from that choice, and asks who gets to be saved when the night comes.
Wanted by Paisley Hope
Before dawn on a Kentucky cattle ranch, a four-year-old is afraid of the last day of preschool and her father talks her down with a story about a horse. Paisley Hope's new cowboy romance is at its best in moments like that, and less sure of itself when it turns to the hero's fists.
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A latte hangs frozen in midair, a stranger in a tweed blazer walks out from behind the shelves, and a bookshop witch loses her grip on the spell. Neena Noon's debut is a funny, frank romance about two lonely people, sometimes let down by a plot that refuses to let them talk.
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The Game by Sadie Kincaid
A long kitchen table on a Colorado ranch, two people pretending not to notice each other's knees. Sadie Kincaid closes her Wages of Sin duet with a romance about a woman learning to want things for herself, and lets the conspiracy around it fall apart too easily.
To Vex & To Hex by Neena Noon
A latte hangs frozen in midair, a stranger in a tweed blazer walks out from behind the shelves, and a bookshop witch loses her grip on the spell. Neena Noon's debut is a funny, frank romance about two lonely people, sometimes let down by a plot that refuses to let them talk.
Coldwire by Chloe Gong
In a city under quarantine, strangers on their balconies sing to draw a police drone away from a fugitive. Chloe Gong's cyberpunk YA novel is full of moments like that, generous and strange, inside a story about a corporation that owns the virtual world and the two girls it has decided to use.
Captive Traitor King by Brigid Kemmerer
In a dark palace corridor, a lonely princess counts her steps and asks a former assassin to come back tomorrow. Kemmerer's second Braided Fate novel is at its best in moments like that one, and weakest when the war outside finally knocks.
Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi
A laid-off federal writer comes home to a Darke County village whose meat plant is about to close, just as its residents start bursting open and coming back as something stranger and happier. John Scalzi's comic horror novel is generous, profane and sharp about money, though it settles its villains too easily.
