Year-End Lists

Things in Nature Merely Grow

• 2 The 10 Best Books of 2025: Lucy Feldman: Time
• 14 Best Books of 2025: USA Today

• Nonfiction 2025: National Book Award Finalist
• The Best Books of 2025: New Yorker Nonfiction
• Top Books of 2025: Traci Thomas: WBUR: Here & Now Nonfiction
• Best Nonfiction of 2025: Electric Lit Additional Favorite Nonfiction
• 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025: Washington Post
• 100 Notable Books of 2025: New York Times Nonfiction
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time Nonfiction

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

• Fiction 2023: PEN/Faulkner Award Won

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

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

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 Finalist
• The 18 Best Books of 2019: Boston.com Fiction
• 2019 Books in Review: Anthony Domestico: Commonweal
• Best Books of 2019: Michael Silverblatt: KCRW

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

• 13 Best Books of 2017: Entropy Nonfiction