Year-End Lists

The Things We Never Say

• 2026 Award: The Booker Prize Shortlisted

Tell Me Everything

• Fiction 2025: Women's Prize Shortlisted
• Best Fiction of 2024: Laura Battle: Financial Times
• The Best Books of 2024: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
• The Best Books of 2024: Vogue
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024: Time

Lucy by the Sea

• 12 Our Favorite Books of 2022: Oprah Daily

• Favorite Books of 2022: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
• Ten Best Books of 2022: California Review of Books
• Favorite Books of 2022: San Francisco Chronicle Fiction
• Favorite Novels of 2022: Electric Lit Other Favorite Novels
• The Best Books of 2022: Entertainment Weekly Also on our list
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post
• 100 Notable Books of 2022: New York Times

Oh William!

• 2022 Award: The Booker Prize Shortlisted
• 2021 Best Books: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
• Best Fiction of 2021: Guardian
• The Best Books of 2021: Hillary Kelly: New York: Vulture Honorable mention
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post
• 100 Notable Books of 2021: New York Times

Olive, Again

• 6 Best Fiction Books of 2019: BookPage
• 14 The Best Books of 2019: O Magazine

• Top Ten Books of 2019: Chicago Public Library
• The Best Novels of 2019: Vogue
• Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019: BuzzFeed Fiction

Anything Is Possible

• 5 Best Books of 2017: Harper’s Bazaar

• Best Books I Read in 2017: Barack Obama
• 30 Best Books of 2017: Christian Science Monitor Fiction
• Top 10 Fiction Books of the 2010s: Entertainment Weekly The Next 10
• 100 Notable Books of 2017: New York Times Fiction & Poetry

My Name Is Lucy Barton

• 9 Top 20 Books of 2016: Sarah Begley: Time Fiction

• 15 Best Fiction Books of 2016: John Freeman: Boston Globe
• 2016 Award: The Booker Prize Longlisted
• Fiction 2017: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• Fiction 2016: Women's Prize Longlisted
• 100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle Fiction and Poetry

The Burgess Boys

• Fiction 2014: Women's Prize Longlisted