Year-End Lists

Dead and Alive

• Favorite Books of 2025: Barack Obama
• The Best Books of 2025: New Yorker Nonfiction
• The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read: Vanity Fair
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time Nonfiction

The Fraud

• 10 Best Novels of 2023: Oprah Daily

• The 10 Best Books of 2023: New York Times Fiction
• The Best Novels of 2023: Dazed
• The 10 Best Books of 2023: Laura Miller: Slate
• Best Fiction of 2023: Financial Times
• Best Literary Fiction of 2023: Library Journal
• 10 Best Books for 2023: Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune
• The Very Best Books of 2023: Constance Grady: Vox Second Half of the Year
• The Best Fiction of 2023: BookPage
• The Best Books of 2023: Town & Country
• Books We Loved in 2023: Boston Globe Fiction
• The Best Books of 2023: New Yorker Fiction & Poetry
• The Best Books of 2023: Vogue
• 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023: Washington Post
• 100 Notable Books of 2023: New York Times Fiction
• The Best Books of 2023: Economist Fiction

Intimations

• 20 Best Books of 2020: O Magazine
• The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time

Grand Union

• 10 The Best Books of 2019: O Magazine

• Fiction 2020: Carnegie Medal Longlisted
• 100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times

Feel Free

• 6 Best Books of 2018: Paste Nonfiction
• 16 Best Books of 2018: Entropy Non-Fiction

• 10 Best Books of 2018: Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune Nonfiction
• Favorite Books of 2018: Maria Popova
• Favorite Books of 2018: Barack Obama Other favorites books
• Best Books of 2018: Bustle Nonfiction
• 100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle Nonfiction
• 100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times Nonfiction

Swing Time

• 6 The 13 Best Books of 2016: Harper’s Bazaar
• 7 Top 20 Books of 2016: Sarah Begley: Time Fiction
• 18 The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s: Paste

• Fiction 2017: Carnegie Medal Finalist
• Top Ten Books of 2016: Chicago Public Library
• The 10 Best Books of 2016: Washington Post
• 2017 Award: The Booker Prize Longlisted
• 100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle Fiction and Poetry

NW

• 4 Top 10 Books of 2012: Salon

• 10 Best Books of 2012: New York Times Fiction
• Fiction 2013: Women's Prize Shortlisted
• Top 10 Books of 2012: Library Journal
• 100 Notable Books of 2012: New York Times Fiction