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.
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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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Night of Madness by Ryan Douglass
An eighteen-year-old who scares tourists for minimum wage wins a place on a horror auteur's televised overnight contest and learns what fame costs. Douglass writes a witty, angry YA horror novel about class and the attention economy, most convincing in its family scenes and least in its late explanations.
Night of Madness by Ryan Douglass
An eighteen-year-old who scares tourists for minimum wage wins a place on a horror auteur's televised overnight contest and learns what fame costs. Douglass writes a witty, angry YA horror novel about class and the attention economy, most convincing in its family scenes and least in its late explanations.
Whale Harbor by Mary Beth Keane
A barefoot boy chases the car taking his brother to the airport, bridge after bridge, until he cannot run any further. Mary Beth Keane's new novel follows the brother in the back seat from Connemara to a Montana ranch and the Bronx, and asks what a broken promise weighs after forty years.
Abandoning a Cat by Haruki Murakami
Every morning before breakfast a schoolteacher in Nishinomiya sits with his eyes shut before a glass case holding a carved bodhisattva, praying for soldiers on both sides of a war he never discusses. His son, now Japan's most famous novelist, spends this slim book working out why.
Chateau Reverie by Natasha Siegel
A dead bird beneath a tree of glass oranges, and a young émigrée who stops to bury it. Natasha Siegel's Alpine fantasy is a lush, sorrowful novel about the urge to forget, let down a little by a villain who explains herself and an ending that comes too easily.
For Ever More by Sue Lynn Tan
A deposed prince is handed a red pepper laced with poison, and the girl offering it bites into the other half first. The second Never Ever After novel is at its best when its heroine bluffs, steals and outthinks people with more power than she has.
The Best Christmas Ever by Sarah Morgan
A widowed children's author who stopped writing eight years ago answers her door in a blizzard and finds a family with a little girl who knows her books by heart. Over four snowbound days her stranded guests coax her back to the page. Tender and well built, if a little too willing to tidy everything away.
Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell
A customer brings the same Paris suit to a Berlin workshop for a half-inch alteration, and the young seamstress slows her needle to keep her in the room. Birrell's first novel turns that small hunger into a story of art, love and erasure, vivid on desire and uneven in its plotting.
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Night of Madness by Ryan Douglass
An eighteen-year-old who scares tourists for minimum wage wins a place on a horror auteur's televised overnight contest and learns what fame costs. Douglass writes a witty, angry YA horror novel about class and the attention economy, most convincing in its family scenes and least in its late explanations.
Whale Harbor by Mary Beth Keane
A barefoot boy chases the car taking his brother to the airport, bridge after bridge, until he cannot run any further. Mary Beth Keane's new novel follows the brother in the back seat from Connemara to a Montana ranch and the Bronx, and asks what a broken promise weighs after forty years.
Abandoning a Cat by Haruki Murakami
Every morning before breakfast a schoolteacher in Nishinomiya sits with his eyes shut before a glass case holding a carved bodhisattva, praying for soldiers on both sides of a war he never discusses. His son, now Japan's most famous novelist, spends this slim book working out why.
Chateau Reverie by Natasha Siegel
A dead bird beneath a tree of glass oranges, and a young émigrée who stops to bury it. Natasha Siegel's Alpine fantasy is a lush, sorrowful novel about the urge to forget, let down a little by a villain who explains herself and an ending that comes too easily.
For Ever More by Sue Lynn Tan
A deposed prince is handed a red pepper laced with poison, and the girl offering it bites into the other half first. The second Never Ever After novel is at its best when its heroine bluffs, steals and outthinks people with more power than she has.
