My Friends by Hisham MatarPlayground by Richard PowersJames by Percival EverettWellness by Nathan  HillBaumgartner by Paul Auster
Booker Prize Eligible 2024
194 books — 181 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraTales of the South Pacific by James A. MichenerAngle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Pulitzer Prize Winners-Fiction
100 books — 275 voters
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław MyśliwskiTranquility by Attila BartisThe Birds by Tarjei VesaasThe Last Days of Terranova by Manuel RivasThe Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar Ali
Archipelago Books
131 books — 18 voters

Shōgun by James ClavellAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Best War Novels
1,723 books — 1,474 voters
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa MoranteMelancholy I-II by Jon FosseThe Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar AliOld God's Time by Sebastian BarryOn the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger
Forthcoming Literary Fiction 2023
14 books — 3 voters

Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław MyśliwskiSatantango by László KrasznahorkaiSigns Preceding the End of the World by Yuri HerreraSlave Old Man by Patrick ChamoiseauChronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso
Best Translated Book Award Winners
13 books — 2 voters
Bewilderment by Richard PowersThe Morning Star by Karl Ove KnausgårdThe Luminous Novel by Mario LevreroThe Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthyHarsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
Anticipated 2021 Literary Fiction
454 books — 596 voters

Endurance by Alfred LansingArctic Dreams by Barry LopezThe Man Who Ate His Boots by Anthony BrandtIn the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton SidesThe Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
To the Poles
118 books — 82 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyShane by Jack Schaefer
Best Westerns
1,471 books — 1,636 voters
The Dying Grass by William T. VollmannBerlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred DöblinAbel and Cain by Gregor von RezzoriMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonLibra by Don DeLillo
Maximalist Fiction
20 books — 4 voters

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik LarsonTyll by Daniel KehlmannSão Bernardo by Graciliano RamosGreenwood by Michael ChristieThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Best Literature of 2020
14 books — 3 voters

White Tears by Hari KunzruLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersExit West by Mohsin HamidThe Changeling by Victor LaValle
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2017
100 books — 9 voters
The Nix by Nathan  HillA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Sport of Kings by C.E. MorganHystopia by David Means
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2016
101 books — 28 voters

The Dying Grass by William T. VollmannFortune Smiles by Adam  JohnsonBarefoot Dogs by Antonio Ruiz-CamachoCity on Fire by Garth Risk HallbergThe Sellout by Paul Beatty
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2015
95 books — 46 voters

We, the Drowned by Carsten JensenThe Egyptian by Mika WaltariThe Long Ships by Frans G. BengtssonArabia Felix by Thorkild HansenKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,215 books — 1,261 voters
Big Bang by David BowmanAbel and Cain by Gregor von RezzoriFall and Rise by Mitchell ZuckoffStalingrad by Vasily GrossmanHorizon by Barry Lopez
Best Literature of 2019
22 books — 4 voters


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