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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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.
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.
Grim Tidings by B.K. Borison
She has been dead for a hundred years and she still drinks her glass of water every morning. She still has a doughnut for breakfast. She holds on to the small things, because they are the last human parts she has left.
The Emperor’s Enemy by Jasmine Mas
A soldier is locked alone in a windowless room, told to cross her arms and hold, and left facing a mirror. Behind the glass, a man begins to scream. Then the water starts.
Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske
A woman sits with four rows of knitting in her lap and scowls at them. She used to knit steadily through entire conversations, before the plague that took her hands and her career together.
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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.
Grim Tidings by B.K. Borison
She has been dead for a hundred years and she still drinks her glass of water every morning. She still has a doughnut for breakfast. She holds on to the small things, because they are the last human parts she has left.
