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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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.
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.
Dangerous Impulses by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A grandmother hijacks an FBI briefing room with lasagna and a slideshow, and the Naturals are drafted into a week of Christmas meddling while a stranger leaves bodies posed in the snow. Barnes's long-awaited return is tender, funny and sad, with a mystery that matters more than it menaces.
Warm Bodies by John Marrs
A four-year-old in Frozen wellies feeds scraps to a farmer's pigs and spots something odd among the peelings. John Marrs's first short story follows the doting grandmother beside her, whose side job is making bodies disappear, through a month of village spite. Wicked and brisk, with a reveal that arrives too predictably.
The Woman I’ve Become by Debra Webb
A child's crayon heart in a bedside drawer, and beneath it a cheap gold necklace that should not exist. Debra Webb's new thriller is about a survivor whose story is being taken from her, and about two girls whose friendship went catastrophically wrong.
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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.
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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.
Dangerous Impulses by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A grandmother hijacks an FBI briefing room with lasagna and a slideshow, and the Naturals are drafted into a week of Christmas meddling while a stranger leaves bodies posed in the snow. Barnes's long-awaited return is tender, funny and sad, with a mystery that matters more than it menaces.
