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Win a set of the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist for your book club!

For Adults

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday, 22 September 2026 at a live public event at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall featuring this year’s Booker Prize judging panel. The event will also be livestreamed and available to watch here.

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist will celebrate the best works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 October 2025 and 30 September 2026, as judged by the 2026 panel.

The Booker Prizes are offering book clubs the opportunity to win a set of the six shortlisted books to read, share and discuss. Two sets of books are available, and the winners will be selected at random.

Only one entry per book club will be permitted.

Entries close at 23:59 on 1 October 2026 and are open to adults aged 18+ based in the UK only.

See here for full terms and conditions.

Check out the longlist.

How to enter

To enter please fill in this survey by 23:59 on 1 October 2026.

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