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J.C. Ruffier Wrote International Delinquent About the Nearly Nine Years He Lost With His Son. His Lawsuit Against the United States Is Now Headed to Argentina's Supreme Court
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Irene Spiegel Krasniansky's Under Rembrandt's Watchful Eye Follows Rembrandt's Daughter and a Girl Growing Up in 1990s Los Angeles
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Zoilita Grant on Self-Hypnosis at Sixteen, Old Beliefs and Change Your Mind and Change Your Life
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Patmeena Sabit's Good People Is the Only Debut Left in the Race for the $100,000 Giller Prize
Prizes5MThe Kabul-born, Toronto-based author is the one first-time novelist among the five finalists for Canada's richest fiction award. The winner will be named in Toronto on November 16.
After Six Young Adult Novels, Ríoghnach Robinson's Adult Debut Is Two Book Clubs' October Pick
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A Story About a Father's Fish Tanks Wins Zimbabwe's Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza the 2026 Caine Prize
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Amanda Rizkalla Began Hungered as a Stanford Sophomore. Now It's Oprah's 125th Book Club Pick
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The Only Debut on the Booker Shortlist Is a Poet's Puzzle Box About a Reluctant King
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Iron & Honey Builds a Kingdom Where the Bees Decide, and Mostly Makes It Sing
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The Undertow Club Is a Locked-Room Mystery With Ice Water in Its Veins
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In Low Tide Protocol the Villain Is the Water, and It Is Terrifying
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The 2026 Debut Shortlist
Six first books chosen from 1,140 submissions. The winner is announced October 30.
Six First Books, Six Roads to Publication. Inside the 2026 RedSquibble Shortlist
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Waders, a Billhook and a Lawn Mower. Where the Six Finalists Were When the Phone Rang
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Six Books That Almost Made the Shortlist
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What 1,140 Debut Submissions Taught Us About First Books
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Memoir, Essays & Poetry
Delia Montrose on Writing About Her Father Without Writing Him Off
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Hannah Birch Walked 900 Miles of Field Margins to Write Fieldwork
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Grief, Birdsong and the Sonnet. Tomasz Wren's Debut Is a Winter Worth Staying In
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How One Book Club Turned a Self-Published Memoir Into a Regional Bestseller
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