Best Novel, 2026

The Everlasting

Hardcover, 320 pages · First published by Tor Books

A scholar is sent back through time to make sure a legendary knight lives and dies as the story says she must, and comes to want a different ending for her.

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A Drop of CorruptionRobert Jackson BennettDel Rey; Hodderscape
Death of the AuthorNnedi OkoraforWilliam Morrow; Gollancz
ShroudAdrian TchaikovskyTor UK; Orbit US
The IncandescentEmily TeshTor US; Orbit UK
The Raven ScholarAntonia HodgsonOrbit US; Hodderscape