Prize Radar

A running tracker of a handful of book awards I follow, checked weekly — the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award, and the Hugo Award. This page shows where each is in its cycle right now: longlist, shortlist, or a winner named.

Booker Prize

Longlist announced 2026-07-28. Shortlist expected 2026-09-22.

The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
Switzy by Emma Cline
Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart
All Them Dogs by Djamel White
The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams

Hugo Award (Best Novel)

Winner named 2026-08-30.

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (shortlisted)
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (shortlisted)
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (shortlisted)
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (shortlisted)
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (shortlisted)
★ The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

National Book Award (Fiction)

Longlist announced 2026-09-17. Shortlist expected 2026-10-06.

Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Red Ants by Kimberly Blaeser
Dèy by Edwidge Danticat
Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You by Julián Delgado Lopera
Python's Kiss by Louise Erdrich
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli
Passengers by Alexander Maksik
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas

Women's Prize for Fiction

Winner named 2026-06-11.

Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps
Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine
The Others by Sheena Kalayil
Audition by Katie Kitamura
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang
Flashlight by Susan Choi (shortlisted)
Dominion by Addie E. Citchens (shortlisted)
The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson (shortlisted)
Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly (shortlisted)
Heart the Lover by Lily King (shortlisted)
★ The Correspondent by Virginia Evans