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Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Aspen Words Literary Prize
Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Booker Prize
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
CWA Gold Dagger
CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
CWA John Creasey First Novel Dagger
Desmond Elliott Prize
Dublin Literary Award
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Edgar Award for Best Novel
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Giller Prize
Goldsmiths Prize
International Booker Prize
Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Lost Man Booker Prize
Miles Franklin Literary Award
National Book Award for Fiction
National Book Award for Translated Literature
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Writers’ Prize
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American Library Association
The Guardian
Lit Hub
The New Yorker
NPR
Publishers Weekly
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Natalie Portman
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The Atlantic
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Chicago Review of Books
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Literary Review
London Review of Books
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The New York Times
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The TLS
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The Boston Globe
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Chang-rae Lee
A Tender Age
Chang-rae Lee
12 Aug 2026
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Glyph
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The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
International
Authors from elsewhere, writing in English
Beginning Middle End
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Eating Ashes
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Translation
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Prizes
A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
We Do Not Part
Han Kang
The Unworthy
Agustina Bazterrica
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Librarians’ choice of the year’s best fiction for adult readers
Endling
Maria Reva
Intemperance
Sonora Jha
So Far Gone
Jess Walter
Aspen Words Literary Prize
Fiction that takes on a vital social issue
Fancy Gap
Zak Jones
Riverwork
Lisa Robertson
My Person
Téa Mutonji
Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
The best Canadian novel or story collection of the year
Black Bag
Luke Kennard
John of John
Douglas Stuart
May We Feed the King
Rebecca Perry
Booker Prize
Best novel in English published in the UK or Ireland
A Real Animal
Emeline Atwood
Carrying
Samantha Josephs
Whidbey
T. Kira Madden
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
The year’s best debut novel by an American writer
The Winter Job
Antti Tuomainen
Big Bad Wool
Leonie Swann
Murder Mindfully
Karsten Dusse
CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
The Crime Writers’ Association’s award for crime fiction translated into English
The Death of Us
Abigail Dean
King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby
Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson
CWA Gold Dagger
The Crime Writers’ Association’s award for the year’s best crime novel
King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby
A Sting in Her Tale
Mark Ezra
The Big Empty
Robert Crais
CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
The Crime Writers’ Association’s award for the year’s best thriller
The Wolf Tree
Laura McCluskey
Coram House
Bailey Seybolt
Holy City
Henry Wise
CWA John Creasey First Novel Dagger
The Crime Writers’ Association’s award for a first crime novel
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer
Iron Annie
Luke Cassidy
Assembly
Natasha Brown
Desmond Elliott Prize
A first novel published in the UK or Ireland
Gliff
Ali Smith
In Late Summer
Magdalena Blažević
Live Fast
Brigitte Giraud
Dublin Literary Award
Nominated by libraries worldwide; often in translation
Dead Money
Jakob Kerr
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
Sarah Harman
History Lessons
Zoe B. Wallbrook
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Mystery Writers of America’s award for a debut crime novel
The Big Empty
Robert Crais
Fagin the Thief
Allison Epstein
Hard Town
Adam Plantinga
Edgar Award for Best Novel
Mystery Writers of America’s award for the year’s best crime novel
The Backwater
Vikki Wakefield
Broke Road
Matthew Spencer
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
Holly Kennedy
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Mystery Writers of America’s award for a crime novel first out in paperback
At Sea in a Sieve
Cordelia Strube
Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead
Mai Nguyen
Daphnis and Chloe
Colin McAdam
Giller Prize
Best Canadian novel or story collection
We Live Here Now
C. D. Rose
Helm
Sarah Hall
Nova Scotia House
Charlie Porter
Goldsmiths Prize
Fiction that breaks the mould of the novel form
Taiwan Travelogue
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
On Earth as It Is Beneath
Ana Paula Maia
She Who Remains
Rene Karabash
International Booker Prize
Fiction translated into English; author and translator share it
Cool Machine
Colson Whitehead
Eating Ashes
Brenda Navarro
John of John
Douglas Stuart
Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Fiction with a starred Kirkus review, judged by a panel
Troubles
J. G. Farrell
Fire from Heaven
Mary Renault
The Bay of Noon
Shirley Hazzard
Lost Man Booker Prize
A one-off Booker, given in 2010 for novels of 1970
Fierceland
Omar Musa
Discipline
Randa Abdel-Fattah
First Name Second Name
Steve MinOn
Miles Franklin Literary Award
Australian novel presenting Australian life
Beginning Middle End
Valeria Luiselli
Dèy
Edwidge Danticat
Mad Eden
Morgan Thomas
National Book Award for Fiction
Fiction by US writers, from the National Book Foundation
Centroeuropa
Vicente Luis Mora
Night of a Thousand Hells
Intan Paramaditha
Now I Surrender
Álvaro Enrigue
National Book Award for Translated Literature
Translated fiction or nonfiction published in the US
We Do Not Part
Han Kang
Audition
Katie Kitamura
On the Calculation of Volume III
Solvej Balle
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Fiction chosen by American book critics
Small Scale Sinners
Mahreen Sohail
Dominion
Addie E. Citchens
Heart the Lover
Lily King
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
American fiction, judged by fellow writers
Angel Down
Daniel Kraus
Audition
Katie Kitamura
Stag Dance
Torrey Peters
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Distinguished fiction by an American author
The Matchbox Girl
Alice Jolly
Benbecula
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Once the Deed Is Done
Rachel Seiffert
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Historical fiction from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
Dominion
Addie E. Citchens
Flashlight
Susan Choi
Women’s Prize for Fiction
Fiction in English by women, from anywhere
The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
The Writers’ Prize
The year’s best writing in any form, judged by writers
Lists
Small Ceremonies
Kyle Edwards
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong
American Library Association
Notable Books: librarians choose 25 books for adult readers
Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
What We Can Know
Ian McEwan
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Guardian
Guardian and Observer critics’ books of the year, by section
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
Audition
Katie Kitamura
Heart the Lover
Lily King
Lit Hub
The list of lists: the books named on the most year-end lists
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews
Audition
Katie Kitamura
Dead and Alive
Zadie Smith
The New Yorker
24 main picks and about 300 more recommendations
When They Burned the Butterfly
Wen-yi Lee
Marble Hall Murders
Anthony Horowitz
A/S/L
Jeanne Thornton
NPR
Books We Love: NPR staff and critics’ picks, fiction and nonfiction
Bog Queen
Anna North
Endling
Maria Reva
Flesh
David Szalay
Publishers Weekly
The trade magazine’s reviewers pick the year’s best fiction
Crooked Cross
Sally Carson
The South
Tash Aw
El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo
Javier Cercas
The TLS
Each contributor names their books of the year
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash
Dua Lipa
Service95 Book Club picks, one a month since 2023
Edith’s Diary
Patricia Highsmith
Beginning Middle End
Valeria Luiselli
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Natalie Portman
Natalie’s Book Club picks, one a month since 2019
Reviews
Ply
Hernan Diaz
Exit Party
Emily St. John Mandel
The Atlantic
Long reviews and essays on new books
A Tender Age
Chang-rae Lee
The Boston Globe
Its reviews, found through Book Marks
Ply
Hernan Diaz
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
Fallow
Sarah Anderson
Chicago Review of Books
Independent reviews, strong on literary and translated fiction
Partita
Barbara Kingsolver
Stations
Louise Kennedy
Dodge City
Patrick deWitt
Financial Times
The FT’s weekend books pages
The Long Cloud
Hector MacKenzie
The Mercy Step
Marcia Hutchinson
Dodge City
Patrick deWitt
The Guardian
Reviews from the Guardian and the Observer
Dodge City
Patrick deWitt
Partita
Barbara Kingsolver
Music Against the Night
Yiyun Li
Literary Review
Britain’s monthly of reviews, for readers more than for scholars
Black Bag
Luke Kennard
Tremor of Intent
Anthony Burgess
The Disappearers
Marlon James
London Review of Books
Long essays on new books, twice a month
Ply
Hernan Diaz
Bunny
Mona Awad
Fruit Fly
Josh Silver
Los Angeles Times
Reviews and author interviews from the West Coast’s paper
Office Politics
Wilfrid Sheed
One Boat
Jonathan Buckley
Goose of Hermogenes
Ithell Colquhoun
The New York Review of Books
Essay-reviews by writers and scholars
The Eye of Goliath
Diego Muzzio
Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives
Nao-Cola Yamazaki
Heavy Cream
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
The New York Times
The Book Review and the daily critics
Ply
Hernan Diaz
Dèy
Edwidge Danticat
The Disappearers
Marlon James
The New Yorker
Reviews and critics’ notes from the weekly
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
The Disappearers
Marlon James
Our Noble Selves
Kate Atkinson
NPR
Book reviews from National Public Radio
Mad Tom’s Rising
Ian Breckon
Tríptico de la infamia
Pablo Montoya
The Rouse
China Miéville
The TLS
The Times Literary Supplement’s weekly reviews