Year-End Lists

Python's Kiss

• Fiction 2026: National Book Award Longlisted

The Mighty Red

• Fiction 2024: Kirkus: Kirkus Prize Finalist
• Fiction 2025: PEN/Faulkner Award Longlisted
• The Best Fiction of 2024: BookPage
• The Best Books of 2024: New Yorker Fiction & Poetry
• The 44 Best Books of 2024: Harper’s Bazaar
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2024: Washington Post
• 100 Notable Books of 2024: New York Times Fiction
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024: Time

The Sentence

• 4 Top 10 Books of 2021: Michael Silverblatt: KCRW
• 18 20 Favorite Books of 2021: Oprah Daily

• Fiction 2022: Women's Prize Shortlisted
• Top 10 Books of 2021: Chicago Public Library
• The Best Books of 2021: Laura Miller: Slate
• The Best Books Of 2021: BuzzFeed Fiction
• The Best Books of 2021: USA Today
• Fiction 2022: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• 40 Best Books of 2021: Parade Magazine
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post
• 100 Notable Books of 2021: New York Times
• Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus

The Night Watchman

• Fiction 2021: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time

Future Home of the Living God

• 5 Best 50 Books of 2017: Joseph Salvatore: Brooklyn Rail Fiction

• 11 Favorite Books of 2017: O Magazine
• Fiction 2018: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• 100 Notable Books of 2017: New York Times Fiction & Poetry

LaRose

• 4 The 20 Best Books of 2016: Entertainment Weekly

• 15 Best Fiction Books of 2016: John Freeman: Boston Globe
• Best Fiction of 2016: Powell's Books
• Fiction 2017: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• Top 10 Fiction Books of the 2010s: Entertainment Weekly The Next 10
• 100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle Fiction and Poetry

The Round House

• 3 10 Best Books of 2012: Publishers Weekly

• Fiction 2013: Carnegie Medal Finalist
• The 24 Best Books of the 2010s: BuzzFeed
• 100 Notable Books of 2012: New York Times Fiction