The Booker Prize 2026 longlist has now been announced – a selection of 13 superb works of long-form fiction, chosen from 163 titles written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 October 2025 and 30 September 2026.
As Mary Beard, Chair of this year’s judges, says: ‘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 Booker Prize Longlist 2026
- The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis (Chatto & Windus)
- Switzy by Emma Cline (Chatto & Windus)
- Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
- The End of Everything by M. John Harrison (Serpent’s Tail)
- The Disappearers by Marlon James (Hamish Hamilton)
- Black Bag by Luke Kennard (John Murray)
- The Renovation by Kenan Orhan (Hamish Hamilton)
- May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry (Granta)
- The Palm Houseby Gwendoline Riley (Picador)
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (Viking)
- John of John by Douglas Stuart (Picador)
- All Them Dogs by Djamel White (John Murray)
- The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams (4th Estate)
The longlist features authors representing seven countries: Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey, England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States. Chloe Aridjis, who is Mexican-British, would be the first author of Mexican heritage to win the prize. Kenan Orhan, who is Turkish-American, would be the first writer of Turkish heritage to win.
Djamel White
Djamel White is an Irish writer from Dublin. His savage and tender All Them Dogs plunges readers deep into West Dublin’s gangland, where murderous associates Tony Ward and ‘Flute’ Walsh find their criminal endeavours complicated by feelings of mutual attraction. Our judges praised the book’s ‘subtle, textured humanity’ hidden beneath its brutal, hyper-masculine exterior.
Djamel holds an MFA from University College Dublin and is the recipient of a Literature Bursary Award and an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. All Them Dogs is his debut novel and is on the 2026 Booker Prize longlist.
Order your copy of All The Dogs online here.
And read more on previous Booker contenders and winners on Writing.ie here.
