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The Booker Prize 2026 | Longlist announced

The longlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has just been announced!

The Booker Prize journey starts here, with 13 novels selected by this year's judges to represent the best of contemporary literature written in English.

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The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
Switzy by Emma Cline
Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman

A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality


A mesmerising portrait of an ageing man’s last pilgrimage, from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest

Published on 10th September


A philosophically and formally adventurous novel that asks: What must we give up in exchange for true happiness?


The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James

A slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction

Marlon James’s triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings - Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize

Published on 3rd September

FURTHER READING: The Foyles blog | Read an extract of The End of Everything by M. John Harrison | READ NOW
IN CONVERSATION Marlon James | Tue 22nd Sep, 7pm | St James's Piccadilly | BOOK TICKETS
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry

Blazingly funny and profoundly humane, Black Bag is a warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story


A heart-breaking portrait of one family caught in the tides of history, grappling with grief, exile, politics and the absurdity of love


A breathtaking dual narrative and a disarming reflection on power and inertia, from an award-winning poet


The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love, The Palm House is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies

From the Pulitzer-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and Lucy By The Sea, a stunning standalone novel of love, loneliness and new beginnings

John of John by Douglas Stuart
All Them Dogs by Djamel White
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo


A debut novel that gives the gangs of West Dublin their own The Wire. A brutally brilliant new voice on the Irish scene, this is a view of Dublin you won't have seen before


The acclaimed author of The Doloriad's wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other



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