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.
Greek Myth Retellings to Read After Circe
Finishing Circe leaves a very specific hole. Here are the Greek myth retellings that actually fill it, and the ones that only pretend to.
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Cousins in the Time of Magic by Emma Otheguy
At dawn over Puebla in May 1862, a Union spy balloon with stars and stripes painted on its basket drops out of the sky, clips a cathedral bell tower and skids across the plaza. Three children from modern Miami climb out.
Cousins in the Time of Magic by Emma Otheguy
At dawn over Puebla in May 1862, a Union spy balloon with stars and stripes painted on its basket drops out of the sky, clips a cathedral bell tower and skids across the plaza. Three children from modern Miami climb out.
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War’s Most Extraordinary Spy by Ben Macintyre
Two men crouch beside a running bath tap in a Tehran embassy compound, one Russian, one British, speaking just loudly enough to be heard over the water. What passes between them will reshape a revolution.
A Study in Sparkling by Jodi McAlister
A junior sommelier drops a tray of glasses in a packed Tasmanian wine bar and bursts into tears. Every person in the room freezes, including the owner, except one regular customer, who is already out of her chair with a dustpan.
If Not You by Ellen O’Clover
On a freezing January night at a Chicago train station, a man in a grey knit hat sees a woman crying under the heat lamps and says her name just as the doors slide shut. They have been professional enemies for five years.
Fallow by Sarah Anderson
A curtainless room, a row of reclining chairs, and a nurse with a felt strawberry in her hair telling a twenty-three-year-old that she has really prominent veins. Two hours later she walks out fifty dollars richer, with a snack and a flyer.
Winterveil by Ava Reid
A stranger in a very good suit holds up a card of twenty-four numbers for less than a second, snatches it away, and asks a seventeen-year-old in a West Virginia holding cell to read it back. She does, without a mistake.
I Am the Monster Under the Bed by Emily Zinnikas
Figures stand along the walls of a Maine basement with their faces to the brickwork, in the attitude of children sent to stand in a corner. The woman upstairs has known about them since she was four. Her parents never saw a thing.
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Cousins in the Time of Magic by Emma Otheguy
At dawn over Puebla in May 1862, a Union spy balloon with stars and stripes painted on its basket drops out of the sky, clips a cathedral bell tower and skids across the plaza. Three children from modern Miami climb out.
Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War’s Most Extraordinary Spy by Ben Macintyre
Two men crouch beside a running bath tap in a Tehran embassy compound, one Russian, one British, speaking just loudly enough to be heard over the water. What passes between them will reshape a revolution.
A Study in Sparkling by Jodi McAlister
A junior sommelier drops a tray of glasses in a packed Tasmanian wine bar and bursts into tears. Every person in the room freezes, including the owner, except one regular customer, who is already out of her chair with a dustpan.
If Not You by Ellen O’Clover
On a freezing January night at a Chicago train station, a man in a grey knit hat sees a woman crying under the heat lamps and says her name just as the doors slide shut. They have been professional enemies for five years.
Fallow by Sarah Anderson
A curtainless room, a row of reclining chairs, and a nurse with a felt strawberry in her hair telling a twenty-three-year-old that she has really prominent veins. Two hours later she walks out fifty dollars richer, with a snack and a flyer.
