The Booker Prize 2026
Awarded 9 November 2026
Official Booker Prize site
Six books. One winner. Read the shortlist before the winner is named.
13 books longlisted · 6 shortlisted · 1 winner.
Shortlist
The End of Everything
The Disappearers
Black Bag
May We Feed the King
The Things We Never Say
John of John
Also longlisted
The Shadow of the Object
Switzy
Helen of Nowhere
The Renovation
The Palm House
All Them Dogs
The Vivisectors
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