Year-End Lists

Book of Lives

• #9 The 10 Best Books of 2025: Anna Bonet: The i Paper

• The Observer's Books of the Year 2025: Observer Nonfiction
• 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post
• The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe Nonfiction
• 100 Notable Books of 2025: New York Times Nonfiction
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time Nonfiction

Paper Boat

• Best Poetry of 2024: Maria Crawford: Financial Times

Burning Questions

• The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture

Dearly

• Best Poetry of 2020: Library Journal
• The Best Books of the Year 2020: Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture
• The Best Books of 2020: Harper’s Bazaar

The Testaments

• 2019 Award: The Booker Prize Won

• #2 The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019: Time
• #7 Best Fiction Books of 2019: BookPage

• The Best Books of 2019: She Reads Literary Fiction
• 100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times

Hag-Seed

• Fiction 2017: Baileys Women's Prize Longlisted

MaddAddam

• Fiction 2014: Baileys Women's Prize Longlisted