🏆 2026 Booker Prize Longlist

13 novels are in the running for this year's prize. Where reader reviews have been collected, jump straight into the reception report.

The Shadow of the Object

Chloe Aridjis

Mexican-British; first Booker longlist

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Switzy

Emma Cline

Acclaimed US novelist (The Girls)

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Helen of Nowhere

Makenna Goodman

First Booker longlist

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The End of Everything

M. John Harrison

Legendary British SF/literary writer; first Booker nomination at age 81

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The Disappearers

Marlon James

Booker winner (2015); set around anti-gay violence in 1980s Jamaica

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Black Bag

Luke Kennard

Poet and novelist

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The Renovation

Kenan Orhan

Debut novel; Turkish-American

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May We Feed the King

Rebecca Perry

Debut novel

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The Palm House

Gwendoline Riley

First Booker longlist

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The Things We Never Say

Elizabeth Strout

Third Booker nomination

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John of John

Douglas Stuart

Booker winner (2020); third novel

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All Them Dogs

Djamel White

Debut novel; Irish writer, age 28

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The Vivisectors

Missouri Williams

Speculative fiction

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