Year-End Lists

Flashlight

• 3 The Best Books of 2025: Jasmine Vojdani: New York: Vulture

• Best Novels of 2025: Electric Lit Top 5 Novels of the Year
• Fiction 2026: Women's Prize Shortlisted
• 2025 Award: The Booker Prize Shortlisted
• Best Fiction of 2025: Maria Crawford: Financial Times
• Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025: Chicago Public Library
• Favorite Books of 2025: Barack Obama
• The 15 Best Books of 2025: Los Angeles Times
• Fiction 2025: National Book Award Longlisted
• The 30 Best Books of 2025: New York Post
• The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read: Vanity Fair
• The Books That Got Us Through 2025: Oprah Daily Books That Swept Us Away
• The Best Books of 2025: Constance Grady: Vox
• The 20 Best Books of 2025: Town & Country
• Fiction 2026: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe Fiction
• The Best Fiction of 2025: Justine Jordan: Guardian
• The Best Books of 2025: New Yorker Fiction & Poetry
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025: Washington Post
• The Best Books of 2025: Economist Fiction
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time Fiction
• Best Books of 2025: Book Riot

Trust Exercise

• Fiction 2019: National Book Award Won

• 6 The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019: Time
• 7 The Best Books of 2019: Molly Young: New York: Vulture

• The 10 Best Books of 2019: Laura Miller: Slate Fiction
• Favorite Books of 2019: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air Fiction
• The Best Books I Read in 2019: Constance Grady: Vox Fiction
• 10 Best Books of 2019: Publishers Weekly
• The Best Books of 2019: Katy Waldman: New Yorker
• Best Books of 2019: Shelf Awareness Fiction
• The 15 Best Books of 2019: Atlantic
• 15 Best Novels of 2019: Electric Lit
• Favorite Books of 2019: Barack Obama
• The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s: Lit Hub The Top Twenty
• The 10 Best Books of 2019: Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune And 15 almost top-10s, well worth your time