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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Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
Night has come to the city, and an old woman lifts the lid on a pot she filled that afternoon. There is nothing inside. Everything that happened between the first ladle and this one is the subject of a small, generous book about what a neighborhood owes the person who feeds it.
Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
Night has come to the city, and an old woman lifts the lid on a pot she filled that afternoon. There is nothing inside. Everything that happened between the first ladle and this one is the subject of a small, generous book about what a neighborhood owes the person who feeds it.
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer
A grandmother, two children and a garden full of chokecherries. From there the story travels back to a frozen shore, a basket of stolen seeds and a corn plant who decides that hungry strangers should be fed. A Wampanoag harvest story with real weight.
The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
An elderly Alabama spinster sits up past midnight mending her mother's tablecloths for a holiday feast, and invites the one guest her young cousin dreads. Capote's late Buddy-and-Sook story is small, exact and generous about the cost of being kind.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The night before the owner comes home from hospital, her young partner knocks down the wall between her kitchen and her dining room. Anne Tyler's Baltimore family novel is about wanting to be fed and never quite managing to sit still long enough to eat.
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
Snow sifts between the shingles onto a girl's coverlet, the old dog sleeps across the door and the cat sits up all night by the spinning wheel. Seven children are alone on a hill farm on the eve of the holiday, and tomorrow they mean to cook.
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
The night after Thanksgiving, Elena Hood pulls the turkey carcass from the fridge, lays out three plates and serves supper in twenty minutes of total silence. Rick Moody's novel of two Connecticut families on one frozen night is about what that silence costs.
Falling Like Snow by Misty Wilson
A girl who believes in love at first sight and a boy who quietly does not spend a December arguing the point across a small Connecticut town. Wilson's second Bramble Falls novel is generous, funny and tender about loss, though its heroine is the last person in town to see the obvious.
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Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
Night has come to the city, and an old woman lifts the lid on a pot she filled that afternoon. There is nothing inside. Everything that happened between the first ladle and this one is the subject of a small, generous book about what a neighborhood owes the person who feeds it.
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer
A grandmother, two children and a garden full of chokecherries. From there the story travels back to a frozen shore, a basket of stolen seeds and a corn plant who decides that hungry strangers should be fed. A Wampanoag harvest story with real weight.
The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
An elderly Alabama spinster sits up past midnight mending her mother's tablecloths for a holiday feast, and invites the one guest her young cousin dreads. Capote's late Buddy-and-Sook story is small, exact and generous about the cost of being kind.
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
The night before the owner comes home from hospital, her young partner knocks down the wall between her kitchen and her dining room. Anne Tyler's Baltimore family novel is about wanting to be fed and never quite managing to sit still long enough to eat.
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
Snow sifts between the shingles onto a girl's coverlet, the old dog sleeps across the door and the cat sits up all night by the spinning wheel. Seven children are alone on a hill farm on the eve of the holiday, and tomorrow they mean to cook.
