Year-End Lists

Things in Nature Merely Grow

14. Best Books of 2025: USA Today

• 100 Notable Books of 2025: New York Times: New York Times
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time
• Nonfiction 2025: National Book Award
• 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post
• Best Nonfiction of 2025: Electric Lit
• The Best Books of 2025: New Yorker

Wednesday's Child

13. The 20 Best Books of 2023: Esquire

• Five Best Fiction Works of 2023: Bethanne Patrick: Los Angeles Times

The Book of Goose

3. The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022: Annabel Gutterman: Time
19. The Best Books of 2022: Esquire

• Fiction 2023: PEN/Faulkner Award
• The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022: New Yorker
• The 5 Best Novels of 2022: Mark Athitakis: Los Angeles Times
• Top 10 Books of 2022: Chicago Public Library
• Best Fiction of 2022: Laura Battle: Financial Times
• The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture
• The Best Books of 2022: BuzzFeed
• The 10 Best Books of 2022: Laura Miller: Slate
• Favorite Books of 2022: San Francisco Chronicle
• Best Fiction of 2022: Powell's Books
• Best Fiction of 2022: BookPage
• Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022: Lit Hub

Must I Go

• The Best Books of the Year 2020: Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture

Where Reasons End

8. The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019: Time

• Fiction 2020: PEN/Faulkner Award
• The 18 Best Books of 2019: Boston.com
• Best Books of 2019: Michael Silverblatt: KCRW
• 2019 Books in Review: Anthony Domestico: Commonweal

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

13. Best Books of 2017: Entropy