Year-End Lists

Palaver

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

Family Meal

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

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

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

• Best Books of 2020: Boston Globe Fiction
• The 15 Best Books of 2020: Vanity Fair
• The Best Books of 2020: Vogue
• Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit
• Fiction 2021: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post
• The Best Books of 2020: Harper’s Bazaar
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time
• 100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times

Lot

• 2020 Award: Dylan Thomas Prize Won

• 9 Best Fiction Books of 2019: BookPage

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