Year-End Lists

Palaver

• Fiction 2025: National Book Award
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025: Washington Post
• The Best Fiction of 2025: BookPage
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time
• The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025: Them
• The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe

Family Meal

2. The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya: Autostraddle

• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023: Washington Post
• Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023: Them

Memorial

1. Best Books of 2020: Refinery29
5. The 10 Best Books of 2020: Entertainment Weekly
8. Best Books of 2020: Fiction: BookPage
10. The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple

• The Best Books of 2020: Vogue
• The Best Books of 2020: Harper’s Bazaar
• Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post
• 100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times
• The 15 Best Books of 2020: Vanity Fair
• Best Books of 2020: Boston Globe

Lot

9. Best Fiction Books of 2019: BookPage

• 2020: Dylan Thomas Prize
• Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019: BuzzFeed
• The 15 Best Books of 2019: Atlantic
• Favorite Books of 2019: Barack Obama
• 100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times