Year-End Lists

The Message

• Best Nonfiction of 2024: Electric Lit
• 100 Notable Books of 2024: New York Times: New York Times
• 21 Best Books of 2024: Vanity Fair

The Water Dancer

1. The Best Books of 2019: O Magazine
14. The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s: Paste

• Best Literary Fiction of 2019: Library Journal
• Top Ten Books of 2019: Chicago Public Library
• The Best Books of 2019: She Reads

We Were Eight Years in Power

1. Top 10 Books of 2017: Michigan Daily
2. Top 20 Books of 2017: Time
3. Best Books of 2017: The Week
4. 45 Best Books of 2017: Paste
16. Best Books of 2017: Entropy

• Top 20 Books of 2017: Stranger
• Best Books of 2017: Book Riot
• 36 Best Books of 2017: Los Angeles Times
• 11 Favorite Books of 2017: O Magazine
• 100 Notable Books of 2017: New York Times: New York Times
• 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017: Kate Tuttle: Boston Globe

Between the World and Me

1. 15 Best Books of 2015: Harper’s Bazaar
1. 11 Best Books of 2015: Entertainment Weekly
1. The Best Books of the 2010s: Esquire
12. The 17 Best Books of the 2010s: Town & Country

• 2015 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness
• 50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Top 10 Books of 2015: David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times
• The 10 Best Books of 2015: Vogue
• Top 10 Books of 2015: San Francisco Chronicle
• 10 Best Books of 2015: Publishers Weekly
• 20 Favorite Books of 2015: A.V. Club
• Top Ten Books of 2015: Chicago Public Library
• Nonfiction 2015: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize
• 10 Best Books of 2015: Washington Post
• 10 Best Books of 2015: New York Times: New York Times
• The 20 Best Books of the Decade 2010-2019: For Reading Addicts
• The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s: Time
• The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s: Lit Hub