Year-End Lists

Creation Lake

• 2024 Award: The Booker Prize Shortlisted
• The Best Books of 2024: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
• Top 10 Books of 2024: Chicago Public Library
• Best Literary Fiction of 2024: Library Journal
• The 10 Best Books of 2024: Atlantic
• Fiction 2025: PEN/Faulkner Award Longlisted
• Fiction 2024: National Book Award Longlisted
• The Best Books of 2024: Dazed
• The 18 Best Novels of 2024: Sunday Times 17 more
• Best Fiction Books of 2024: Independent
• The 24 Best Books of 2024: BBC: BBC Culture
• The Best Books of 2024: Boston Globe Fiction
• 2026: Dublin Literary Award Longlisted
• The Best Books of 2024: Constance Grady: Vox Second Half of the Year
• The Best Books of 2024: Town & Country
• 38 Favorite Books of 2024: Lit Hub
• 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 Best Books of 2024: Vogue
• The Best Books of 2024: Economist Fiction

The Hard Crowd

• 15 Favorite Books of 2021: A.V. Club
• Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021: Electric Lit Other Nonfiction Favorites
• Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2021: Dennis Cooper Nonfiction (in no order)

The Mars Room

• 1 Best Books of 2018: Time Fiction
• 4 10 Best Books of 2018: Entertainment Weekly

• Top 10 Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle Fiction
• 2018 Award: The Booker Prize Shortlisted
• 2018 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness Fiction
• 10 Best Books of 2018: Laura Winnick: Broadly
• 10 Best Books of 2018: Laura Miller: Slate
• 50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018: Autostraddle Fiction
• 100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times Fiction & Poetry
• Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub

The Flamethrowers

• 4 The Top 10 Books of 2013: Jane Ciabattari: BBC: BBC Culture
• 4 Top 10 Fiction Books of the 2010s: Entertainment Weekly
• 13 The 17 Best Books of the 2010s: Town & Country

• The 10 Best Books of 2013: New York Times Fiction
• Fiction 2013: National Book Award Finalist
• The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s: Lit Hub The Top Twenty
• Fiction 2014: Women's Prize Longlisted