The longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize has been announced!
The Booker Prize has been awarded for over 55 years, celebrating world-class talent and shaping the canon of 20th and 21st century English literature. This year's longlist of thirteen books includes two previous winners of the prize, and three debut novelists.
The 2026 Booker Prize longlist
The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
Switzy by Emma Cline (Available from 15 September)
Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
The End of Everything by M. John Harrison (Available from 22 September)
The Disappearers by Marlon James (Available from 8 September)
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart
All Them Dogs by Djamel White
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams (Available from 29 September)
Mary Beard, Chair of Judges for the 2026 prize, said of the longlist: ‘Great books have never been written to a single formula. We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone. There’s the funny and the unsettling (and in some cases the funny and unsettling); there’s dystopian fantasy and domestic drama; there’s the gritty and the magically mysterious; there are some that will please and some that may shock.’
The 2026 shortlist will be announced in London on Tuesday 22 September, and each shortlisted author will receive £2,500 in prize money.
Read more about the Booker Prize and the longlisted books here.
