Celebrating outstanding fiction for over five decades, the Booker Prize highlights the most compelling literary fiction that is written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. A panel of judges selects a longlist and a shortlist before choosing their final winner.
Check out this year's longlist and shortlist, with the winner to follow on Monday, 9 November.
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist
The Booker Prize 2026 longlist
The Shadow of the Object
Chloe Aridjis
Switzy
Emma Cline
Helen of Nowhere
Makenna Goodman
The End of Everything
M. John Harrison
The Disappearers
Marlon James
Black Bag
Luke Kennard
The Renovation
Kenan Orhan
May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry
The Palm House
Gwendoline Riley
The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout
John of John
Douglas Stuart
All Them Dogs
Djamel White
The Vivisectors
Missouri Williams
