BookPage Winners Best Fiction

The Covenant of Water (*)
Abraham Verghese

Jan-2023
/ Literary

In Memoriam (*)
Alice Winn

Mar-2023
/ Contemporary Romance

The Great Reclamation (*)
Rachel Heng

Apr-2023
/ General Fiction

Loot (*)
Tania James

Jun-2023
/ Literary

Return to Valetto (*)
Dominic Smith

Jun-2023
/ Literary

Crook Manifesto (*)
Colson Whitehead

Jul-2023
/ Literary

Bellies (*)
Nicola Dinan

Aug-2023
/ General Fiction

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (*)
James McBride

Aug-2023
/ Historical

Tom Lake (*)
Ann Patchett

Aug-2023
/ General Fiction

Witness: Stories (*)
Jamel Brinkley

Aug-2023
/ General Fiction

The Fraud (*)
Zadie Smith

Sep-2023
/ Literary

Happiness Falls (*)
Angie Kim

Sep-2023
/ Literary

Blackouts (*)
Justin Torres

Oct-2023
/ Literary

The Future (*)
Naomi Alderman

Nov-2023
/ Literary

Afterlives (*)
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Sep-2020
/ Historical

The Candy House (*)
Jennifer Egan

Apr-2022
/ Psychological Suspense

Lessons in Chemistry (*)
Bonnie Garmus

Apr-2022
/ Literary

Young Mungo (*)
Douglas Stuart

Apr-2022
/ General Fiction

Either/Or (*)
Elif Batuman

May-2022
/ Literary

Trust (*)
Hernan Diaz

May-2022
/ Historical

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (*)
Gabrielle Zevin

Jul-2022
/ Literary

All This Could Be Different (*)
Sarah Thankam Mathews

Aug-2022
/ General Fiction

Calling for a Blanket Dance (*)
Oscar Hokeah

Aug-2022
/ Literary

The Rabbit Hutch (*)
Tess Gunty

Aug-2022
/ Literary

The Book of Goose (*)
Yiyun Li

Sep-2022
/ Literary

If I Survive You (*)
Jonathan Escoffery

Sep-2022
/ Literary

Lessons (*)
Ian McEwan

Sep-2022
/ Literary

Natural History (*)
Andrea Barrett

Sep-2022
/ General Fiction

The Consequences: Stories (*)
Manuel Munoz

Oct-2022
/ Literary

The Furrows (*)
Namwali Serpell

Oct-2022
/ Literary

Our Missing Hearts (*)
Celeste Ng

Oct-2022
/ Literary

How It Went (*)
Wendell Berry

Nov-2022
/ General Fiction

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (#1)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Aug-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Detransition, Baby (#9)
Torrey Peters

Jan-2021
/ Literary

A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (#8)
Peter Ho Davies

Jan-2021
/ General Fiction

The Prophets (#12)
Robert Jones Jr.

Jan-2021
/ Literary

Milk Fed (#13)
Melissa Broder

Feb-2021
/ Literary

How Beautiful We Were (#19)
Imbolo Mbue

Mar-2021
/ Literary

Klara and the Sun (#17)
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mar-2021
/ Literary

What Comes After (#20)
JoAnne Tompkins

Apr-2021
/ Mystery

Great Circle (#2)
Maggie Shipstead

May-2021
/ Literary

Light Perpetual (#16)
Francis Spufford

May-2021
/ Literary

In: A Graphic Novel (#14)
Will McPhail

Jun-2021
/ Graphic Novel

Hell of a Book (#5)
Jason Mott

Jul-2021
/ General Fiction

Damnation Spring (#11)
Ash Davidson

Aug-2021
/ Literary

Gordo (#18)
Jaime Cortez

Aug-2021
/ General Fiction

The Book of Form and Emptiness (#7)
Ruth L. Ozeki

Sep-2021
/ Literary

Harlem Shuffle (#3)
Colson Whitehead

Sep-2021
/ Literary

Matrix (#6)
Lauren Groff

Sep-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land (#4)
Anthony Doerr

Oct-2021
/ Literary

Crossroads (#15)
Jonathan Franzen

Oct-2021
/ Literary

The Lincoln Highway (#10)
Amor Towles

Oct-2021
/ Literary

The Vanishing Half (#1)
Brit Bennett

Jun-2020
/ Women's Fiction

Such a Fun Age (#4)
Kiley Reid

Jan-2020
/ Literary

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau (#18)
Michael Zapata

Feb-2020
/ General Fiction

Deacon King Kong (#9)
James McBride

Mar-2020
/ General Fiction

The Glass Hotel (#5)
Emily St. John Mandel

Mar-2020
/ Thriller

The Mirror & the Light (#10)
Hilary Mantel

Mar-2020
/ Literary

Afterlife (#6)
Julia Alvarez

Apr-2020
/ General Fiction

Code Name Helene (#19)
Ariel Lawhon

Apr-2020
/ Historical

How Much of These Hills Is Gold (#13)
C. Pam Zhang

Apr-2020
/ Literary

Valentine (#16)
Elizabeth Wetmore

Apr-2020
/ Literary

Happy and You Know It (#20)
Laura Hankin

May-2020
/ Women's Fiction

Hamnet (#7)
Maggie O'Farrell

Jul-2020
/ Literary

The Death of Vivek Oji (#12)
Akwaeke Emezi

Aug-2020
/ General Fiction

Sisters (#17)
Daisy Johnson

Aug-2020
/ General Fiction

The Lying Life of Adults (#15)
Elena Ferrante

Sep-2020
/ Literary

Monogamy (#14)
Sue Miller

Sep-2020
/ Literary

Piranesi (#3)
Susanna Clarke

Sep-2020
/ Fantasy

Transcendent Kingdom (#2)
Yaa Gyasi

Sep-2020
/ Literary

Leave the World Behind (#11)
Rumaan Alam

Oct-2020
/ Literary

Memorial (#8)
Bryan Washington

Nov-2020
/ General Fiction

The Nickel Boys (#1)
Colson Whitehead

Jul-2019
/ Historical

Late in the Day (#3)
Tessa Hadley

Jan-2019
/ Literary

The Night Tiger (#19)
Yangsze Choo

Feb-2019
/ Women's Fiction

Lot: Stories (#9)
Bryan Washington

Mar-2019
/ General Fiction

The Old Drift (#13)
Namwali Serpell

Mar-2019
/ Literary

The Other Americans (#20)
Laila Lalami

Mar-2019
/ Literary

Miracle Creek (#17)
Angie Kim

Apr-2019
/ Thriller

Naamah (#11)
Sarah Blake

Apr-2019
/ Fantasy

Normal People (#12)
Sally Rooney

Apr-2019
/ General Fiction

Disappearing Earth (#14)
Julia Phillips

May-2019
/ Thriller

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (#8)
Ocean Vuong

Jun-2019
/ Literary

The Tenth Muse (#5)
Catherine Chung

Jun-2019
/ Historical

Fleishman Is in Trouble (#2)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Jul-2019
/ General Fiction

The Need (#16)
Helen Phillips

Jul-2019
/ Thriller

Inland (#18)
Tea Obreht

Aug-2019
/ Historical

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (#15)
Elif Shafak

Sep-2019
/ General Fiction

The Dutch House (#10)
Ann Patchett

Sep-2019
/ Literary

The Shadow King (#4)
Maaza Mengiste

Sep-2019
/ Literary

The Testaments (#7)
Margaret Atwood

Sep-2019
/ Dystopian

Olive, Again (#6)
Elizabeth Strout

Oct-2019
/ Literary

Circe (#1)
Madeline Miller

Apr-2018
/ Fantasy

Red Clocks (#15)
Leni Zumas

Jan-2018
/ Women's Fiction

An American Marriage (#8)
Tayari Jones

Feb-2018
/ Literary

Freshwater (#12)
Akwaeke Emezi

Feb-2018
/ Literary

The House of Broken Angels (#11)
Luis Alberto Urrea

Mar-2018
/ General Fiction

The Overstory (#3)
Richard Powers

Apr-2018
/ Literary

The Mars Room (#4)
Rachel Kushner

May-2018
/ Suspense

Warlight (#7)
Michael Ondaatje

May-2018
/ Literary

The Great Believers (#13)
Rebecca Makkai

Jun-2018
/ Literary

There There (#2)
Tommy Orange

Jun-2018
/ Literary

Severance (#6)
Ling Ma

Aug-2018
/ Literary

Transcription (#5)
Kate Atkinson

Sep-2018
/ Historical

Washington Black (#10)
Esi Edugyan

Sep-2018
/ Action Adventure

Little (#14)
Edward Carey

Oct-2018
/ Historical

Virgil Wander (#9)
Leif Enger

Aug-2019
/ Literary

Little Fires Everywhere (#1)
Celeste Ng

Sep-2017
/ Literary

The Animators (#23)
Kayla Rae Whitaker

Feb-2017
/ Literary

Lincoln in the Bardo (#2)
George Saunders

Feb-2017
/ Science Fiction

Pachinko (#6)
Min Jin Lee

Feb-2017
/ Literary

The Refugees (#17)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Feb-2017
/ Literary

Exit West (#4)
Mohsin Hamid

Mar-2017
/ General Fiction

The Idiot (#3)
Elif Batuman

Mar-2017
/ Literary

No One Is Coming to Save Us (#5)
Stephanie Powell Watts

Apr-2017
/ General Fiction

Salt Houses (#10)
Hala Alyan

May-2017
/ General Fiction

Since We Fell (#14)
Dennis Lehane

May-2017
/ Psychological Suspense

Home Fire (#22)
Kamila Shamsie

Aug-2017
/ General Fiction

Sing, Unburied, Sing (#11)
Jesmyn Ward

Sep-2017
/ Fantasy

Manhattan Beach (#7)
Jennifer Egan

Oct-2017
/ Historical

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