The Crossed Keys Chronicle

Prize Radar

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

Booker Prize

Shortlist announced 2026-09-22. Winner expected 2026-11-09.

Goldsmiths Prize

Winner named 2026-11-04.

  • What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (shortlisted)
  • ★ The Rouse by China Miéville
  • Said the Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (shortlisted)
  • Dooneen by Keith Ridgway (shortlisted)
  • Attention Seeking Behaviour by Aea Varfis-Van Warmelo (shortlisted)
  • The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams (shortlisted)

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

International Booker Prize

Winner named 2026-05-19.

  • The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar (shortlisted)
  • We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
  • The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje
  • The Deserters by Mathias Énard
  • Small Comfort by Ia Genberg
  • She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (shortlisted)
  • The Director by Daniel Kehlmann (shortlisted)
  • On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia (shortlisted)
  • The Duke by Matteo Melchiorre
  • The Witch by Marie NDiaye (shortlisted)
  • Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur
  • The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
  • ★ Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

National Book Award (Fiction)

Shortlist announced 2026-10-06. Winner expected 2026-11-18.

  • 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

The First Novel Prize

Shortlist announced 2026-09-30. Winner expected 2026-12-08.

  • Fallow by Sarah Anderson
  • A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood
  • Hope House by Joe Bond
  • Upward Bound by Woody Brown
  • Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
  • Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein
  • To Stay, To Stay, To Stay by Devon Halliday
  • Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han
  • Whidbey by T Kira Madden
  • 200 Monas by Jan Saenz
  • On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
  • Ruins, Child by Giada Scodellaro
  • Offseason by Avigayl Sharp
  • Should the Waters Take Us by Stephanie Soileau
  • Carrying by Samantha Josephs
  • Blow Yourself Up by Ankur Thakkar
  • The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
  • Rabbit, Fox, Tar by P. C. Verrone
  • Kitten by Stacey Yu

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