Booker Prize 2026

The longlist includes the books that went on to the shortlist.

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  Black Bag

  Luke Kennard

  Shortlist
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  John of John

  Douglas Stuart

  Shortlist
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  May We Feed the King

  Rebecca Perry

  Shortlist
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  The Disappearers

  Marlon James

  Shortlist
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  The End of Everything

  M. John Harrison

  Shortlist
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  The Things We Never Say

  Elizabeth Strout

  Shortlist
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  All Them Dogs

  Djamel White
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  Helen of Nowhere

  Makenna Goodman
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  Switzy

  Emma Cline
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  The Palm House

  Gwendoline Riley
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  The Renovation

  Kenan Orhan
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  The Shadow of the Object

  Chloe Aridjis
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  The Vivisectors

  Missouri Williams