The Vivisectors

Name: The Vivisectors
ISBN: 9780374619299

by Missouri Williams

Booker · 2026 · Longlist

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Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Booker Prize	2026	Longlist	“A bracing antidote to the cosy campus and the dark academia novel, The Vivisectors is genuinely experimental, relentlessly and rollickingly told – and in places truly menacing.”

About This Book

In a crumbling university city overrun by nature, a reclusive graduate student props up her fraudulent professor until a campus controversy forces her into a friendship that destabilizes her life. A disquieting, experimental campus novel and apocalyptic fable.

About the Author

Missouri WilliamsBritish

Missouri Williams is a British writer. Her debut novel, The Doloriad, won the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. The Vivisectors, her second novel, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.