The International Booker Prize Longlist 2026

Four decades of heartbreak and hope. This moving multi-generational story follows a family whose lives are shaped by exile and the search for belonging.

A runaway conquistador grapples with a monumental decision in We Are Green and Trembling, a subversive and satirical story of colonialism, hope and history from an acclaimed author.

A poignant portrait of a war-torn mind, The Remembered Soldier is a gripping story of lost love, broken identity and the winding path to healing in the midst of turmoil.

Two lives intersect across timelines in this lyrical tale of a soldier, a German mathematician and the human cost of war.

Delving into money’s influence, Ia Genberg’s emotionally reflective and thought-provoking stories examine how finances touch every part of our lives.

Haunting and deeply moving, this stream-of-consciousness novel explores gender identity and enduring traditions through the story of a woman who escapes an arranged marriage at a profound cost.

A story about art and morality, big promises and even bigger threats, The Director chronicles the life and work of an infamous man’s complicated life in sharp and exacting prose.

Sharp, suspenseful and shocking, this gripping survival story follows prisoners in an isolated penal colony who are violently hunted by a deranged warden.

Liberation, freedom and power are the focus of this novel, first published in 1989 and banned shortly after, which chronicles the stories of five very different women living on the outskirts of Tehran

Trapped in a dangerous marriage, a witch must protect her daughters as they develop their magic in this mesmerizing tale of motherhood, shame and liberation.

Told from the perspective of a wax doll, this chilling tale is inspired by a real group of women accused of dark magic in seventeenth-century Denmark.

This is a story within a story about two queer women and the colonial history of Taiwan. Riddled with love, longing and loss, this is an exquisite tale about history and humanity.