Cli‑fi shortlist announced
The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is out — six novels made the cut, including Maria Reva’s Endling and Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records, signaling strong literary attention on cli‑fi this year (thebookseller.com) (theguardian.com). The shortlist overlaps with Booker‑longlisted work, making it a good place to find serious climate fiction this spring (thebookseller.com).
Shortlist in full: Endling (Maria Reva), The Book of Records (Madeleine Thien), Dusk (Robbie Arnott), The Tiger’s Share (Keshava Guha), Awake in the Floating City (Susanna Kwan) and Hum (Helen Phillips). (thebookseller.com) The judging panel is chaired by Arifa Akbar and includes novelists Kit de Waal and Jessie Greengrass, climate scientist Dr Friederike Otto and broadcaster Simon Savidge. (locusmag.com) The prize awards a £10,000 winner’s purse; the winner will be announced on 27 May with a celebration at the Hay Festival on 30 May. (locusmag.com) The shortlist was revealed alongside a live event at The Conduit in London on 18 March where four judges discussed the entries in person. (theconduit.com) This shortlist was drawn from a 12‑book longlist published on 5 February, which the organisers described as spanning genres, cultures and continents. (climate-spring.org) One of the shortlisted novels, Endling, had earlier been named on the Booker Prize longlist, and The Book of Records carried wide plaudits in 2025 including a place on Barack Obama’s summer reading list. (thebookerprizes.com) Judges highlighted recurring preoccupations across the six titles — resilience, motherhood, intersectionality and an “eerie” quality in how domestic lives meet ecological breakdown. (lovereading.co.uk)
