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Amity by Nathan HarrisThe Antidote by Karen RussellAre You Happy? by Lori OstlundAudition by Katie KitamuraBring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2025
50 books — 3 voters
Apple in China by Patrick McGeeArticulate by Rachel KolbBaldwin by Nicholas BoggsBlack Genius by Tre JohnsonBlack Moses by Caleb Gayle
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Non-Fiction 2025
50 books — 4 voters

All Fours by Miranda JulyBeautyland by Marie-Helene BertinoBlack River by Nilanjana RoyBluff by Danez SmithThe Book of Love by Kelly Link
The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024
100 books — 18 voters
Ædnan by Linnea AxelssonAll Fours by Miranda JulyThe Axeman's Carnival by Catherine ChidgeyBeautiful Days by Zach WilliamsBehind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2024
50 books — 3 voters

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideOpen Throat by Henry Hoke
2024 Tournament of Books shortlist
18 books — 27 voters
After Sappho by Selby Wynn SchwartzAll the Sinners Bleed by S.A. CosbyThe Bee Sting by Paul MurrayBiography of X by Catherine LaceyBirnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023
100 books — 28 voters

The Bee Sting by Paul MurrayThe Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideLoot by Tania JamesThe Maniac by Benjamín LabatutNorth Woods by Daniel Mason
Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2023
10 books — 5 voters
After the Funeral and Other Stories by Tessa HadleyAfter Sappho by Selby Wynn SchwartzAge of Vice by Deepti KapoorBarbara Isn't Dying Yet by Alina BronskyBirnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2023
50 books — 4 voters

Yellowface by R.F. KuangLone Women by Victor LaValleAll the Sinners Bleed by S.A. CosbyBirnam Wood by Eleanor CattonOpen Throat by Henry Hoke
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2024
125 books — 129 voters
Afterlives by Abdulrazak GurnahAlso a Poet by Ada CalhounAmerican Midnight by Adam HochschildThe Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell MeadAvalon by Nell Zink
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022
100 books — 41 voters

All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko KawakamiThe Books of Jacob by Olga TokarczukCity on Fire by Don WinslowThe Consequences by Manuel MuñozCult Classic by Sloane Crosley
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2022
50 books — 11 voters
Afterlives by Abdulrazak GurnahDemon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverMecca by Susan StraightTrust by Hernan DiazYoung Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2022
10 books — 5 voters

Also a Poet by Ada CalhounAmerican Midnight by Adam HochschildAncestor Trouble by Maud NewtonAs It Turns Out by Alice Sedgewick WohlBecause Our Fathers Lied by Craig McNamara
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction 2022
50 books — 6 voters
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna SoAppleseed by Matt BellBeautiful World, Where Are You by Sally RooneyBewilderment by Richard PowersThe Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021
100 books — 41 voters

The Afghanistan Papers by Craig WhitlockAll That She Carried by Tiya MilesCrossroads by Jonathan FranzenEmpire of Pain by Patrick Radden KeefeGold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
The Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2021
10 books — 8 voters
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna SoApples Never Fall by Liane MoriartyAssembly by Natasha BrownBeautiful World, Where Are You by Sally RooneyBlack Buck by Mateo Askaripour
Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2021
50 books — 4 voters

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerThe Last Thing He Told Me by Laura DaveSuch a Fun Age by Kiley ReidKlara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroThe Survivors by Jane Harper
2021: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2021
6,717 books — 695 voters
Actress by Anne EnrightAfterland by Lauren BeukesAll Adults Here by Emma StraubAnd I Do Not Forgive You by Amber SparksThe Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2020
50 books — 4 voters

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif ShafakThe Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. LaskarBangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya SudbanthadThe Border by Don WinslowBowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2019
50 books — 25 voters
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana ZuboffAmerican Spy by Lauren WilkinsonAntisocial by Andrew MarantzAudience of One by James PoniewozikBangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019
100 books — 43 voters

When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda SantiagoLove & Death in the Middle Kingdom by Nalini RajanBanshee by Margaret MillarMunich by Robert HarrisWaking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
New York Times 52 Books for 52 Places
52 books — 3 voters
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgThe Wife Between Us by Greer HendricksSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardThe Power by Naomi AldermanThe Radium Girls by Kate Moore
2018: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2018
6,938 books — 978 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsHomegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersIn the Woods by Tana French
2017: What Women Born In The 1970s Read In 2017
5,954 books — 758 voters
Exit West by Mohsin HamidKillers of the Flower Moon by David Grann4 3 2 1 by Paul AusterDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2018
174 books — 383 voters

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Best Nonfiction Audio Books
448 books — 283 voters
Born to Run by Christopher McDougallWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Best Running (non-instructional) Books
236 books — 563 voters

The Vegetarian by Han KangThe Queen of the Night by Alexander CheeYour Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil YapaSwing Time by Zadie SmithWe Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Goodreads Picks for Tournament of Books 2017
522 books — 2,011 voters
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Books for Bird Lovers
537 books — 218 voters


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