The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHaleThe Feathered Bone by Julie CantrellThe Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen LoigmanThe Girls by Emma ClineMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Anticipated 2016 Literary Fiction
334 books — 705 voters
Slade House by David  MitchellHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Noise of Time by Julian BarnesWhat Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellMy Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2016
176 books — 196 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Best Historical Fiction
7,795 books — 26,091 voters