Big Books of 2026

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Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Price of Salt by Claire Morgan
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,025 books — 2,648 voters
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuireLoveless by Alice OsemanRadio Silence by Alice OsemanLet's Talk About Love by Claire KannHow to Be a Normal Person by T.J. Klune
Asexuals In Fiction
445 books — 590 voters

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel JoyceBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngThe Lighthouse by Alison MooreSwimming Home by Deborah Levy
2012 Man Booker Prize Longlist
12 books — 177 voters
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThe Lowland by Jhumpa LahiriThe Luminaries by Eleanor CattonTransAtlantic by Colum McCannThe Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
2013 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 268 voters

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerThe Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellHow to Be Both by Ali SmithThe Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
2014 Man Booker Prize Longlist
13 books — 102 voters
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaA Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesThe Fishermen by Chigozie ObiomaThe Moor's Account by Laila LalamiLila by Marilynne Robinson
Man Booker 2015 Long List
13 books — 174 voters

His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae BurnetThe North Water by Ian McGuireThe Sellout by Paul BeattyHot Milk by Deborah LevyDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Man Booker 2016 Longlist
13 books — 97 voters
Life of Pi by Yann MartelThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Booker Prize Winners
60 books — 1,985 voters

The Hours by Michael CunninghamBel Canto by Ann PatchettSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonWe Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerThe Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
PEN / Faulkner Award For Fiction Winners
42 books — 15 voters
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick NessOne by Sarah CrossanThe Lie Tree by Frances HardingeAm I Normal Yet? by Holly BourneUnbecoming by Jenny Downham
YA book prize 2016 shortlist
10 books — 3 voters