Publishers Weekly Best Books - Fiction (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

2023

Age of Vice
(*)
Deepti Kapoor

Bariloche
(*)
Andres Neuman

This Other Eden
(*)
Paul Harding

Eastbound
(*)
Maylis De Kerangal

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

A Cowardly Woman No More
(*)
Ellen Cooney

Greek Lessons
(*)
Han Kang

The People Who Report More Stress: Stories
(*)
Alejandro Varela

August Blue
(*)
Deborah Levy

Small Worlds
(*)
Caleb Azumah Nelson

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(*)
James McBride

Terrace Story
(*)
Hilary Leichter

Beyond the Door of No Return
(*)
David Diop

The Fraud
(*)
Zadie Smith

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

Company: Stories
(*)
Shannon Sanders

Let Us Descend
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

This Is Salvaged: Stories
(*)
Vauhini Vara

Tremor
(*)
Teju Cole

The Unsettled
(*)
Ayana Mathis

2022

Devil House
(*)
John Darnielle

Seasons of Purgatory
(*)
Shahriar Mandanipour

The Swimmers
(*)
Julie Otsuka

Scattered All Over the Earth
(*)
Yoko Tawada

The Town of Babylon
(*)
Alejandro Varela

The Candy House
(*)
Jennifer Egan

New and Selected Stories
(*)
Cristina Rivera Garza

True Biz
(*)
Sara Novic

Companion Piece
(*)
Ali Smith

Either/Or
(*)
Elif Batuman

Human Blues
(*)
Elisa Albert

Night of the Living Rez: Stories
(*)
Morgan Talty

Lessons
(*)
Ian McEwan

Living Pictures
(*)
Polina Barskova

The Village Idiot
(*)
Steve Stern

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Dinosaurs
(*)
Lydia Millet

The Sleeping Car Porter
(*)
Suzette Mayr

Dr. No
(*)
Percival Everett

Solenoid
(*)
Mircea Cartarescu

2021

Outlawed
(*)
Anna North

My Year Abroad
(*)
Chang-Rae Lee

No One Is Talking About This
(*)
Patricia Lockwood

The Removed
(*)
Brandon Hobson

The Orphanage
(*)
Serhiy Zhadan

The Five Wounds
(*)
Kirstin Valdez Quade

The Promise
(*)
Damon Galgut

Winter in Sokcho
(*)
Elisa Shua Dusapin

Filthy Animals: Stories
(*)
Brandon Taylor

Dear Miss Metropolitan
(*)
Carolyn Ferrell

Ramadan Ramsey
(*)
Louis Edwards

Harlem Shuffle
(*)
Colson Whitehead

Lean Fall Stand
(*)
Jon McGregor

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(*)
Anthony Doerr

Crossroads
(*)
Jonathan Franzen

The Morning Star
(*)
Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Pastor
(*)
Hanne Orstavik

Burntcoat
(*)
Sarah Hall

The Sentence
(*)
Louise Erdrich

2020

The Regrets
(*)
Amy Bonnaffons

Beheld
(*)
Tarashea Nesbit

Fiebre Tropical
(*)
Juliana Delgado Lopera

The Mirror & the Light
(*)
Hilary Mantel

Temporary
(*)
Hilary Leichter

The Dominant Animal
(*)
Kathryn Scanlan

Bluebeard's First Wife
(*)
Ha Seong-nan

Tokyo Ueno Station
(*)
Yu Miri

The Vanishing Half
(*)
Brit Bennett

Crooked Hallelujah
(*)
Kelli Jo Ford

Hamnet
(*)
Maggie O'Farrell

Mansour's Eyes
(*)
Ryad Girod

Pew
(*)
Catherine Lacey

The Butterfly Lampshade
(*)
Aimee Bender

It Is Wood, It Is Stone
(*)
Gabriella Burnham

A Saint from Texas
(*)
Edmund White

Sisters
(*)
Daisy Johnson

The Abstainer
(*)
Ian McGuire

Homeland Elegies
(*)
Ayad Akhtar

The Last Great Road Bum
(*)
Hector Tobar

Likes
(*)
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Monogamy
(*)
Sue Miller

Out of Mesopotamia
(*)
Salar Abdoh

The Cold Millions
(*)
Jess Walter

An Inventory of Losses
(*)
Judith Schalansky

2019

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

An Orchestra of Minorities
(*)
Chigozie Obioma

The Far Field
(*)
Madhuri Vijay

Ghost Wall
(*)
Sarah Moss

Mouthful of Birds: Stories
(*)
Samanta Schweblin

Bowlaway
(*)
Elizabeth McCracken

Mars
(*)
Asja Bakic

Women Talking
(*)
Miriam Toews

Stalingrad
(*)
Vasily Grossman

Exposed
(*)
Jean-Philippe Blondel

The Need
(*)
Helen Phillips

The World Doesn't Require You: Stories
(*)
Rion Amilcar Scott

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
(*)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Ducks, Newburyport
(*)
Lucy Ellmann

The Sweetest Fruits
(*)
Monique Truong

Black Forest
(*)
Valerie Mrejen

Frankissstein
(*)
Jeanette Winterson

Grand Union: Stories
(*)
Zadie Smith

Olive, Again
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

The Factory
(*)
Hiroko Oyamada

2018

Census
(*)
Jesse Ball

The Extinction of Menai
(*)
Chuma Nwokolo

The Sparsholt Affair
(*)
Alan Hollinghurst

Circe
(*)
Madeline Miller

Fox
(*)
Dubravka Ugresic

The Mars Room
(*)
Rachel Kushner

Slave Old Man
(*)
Patrick Chamoiseau

Warlight
(*)
Michael Ondaatje

The Great Believers
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

Kudos
(*)
Rachel Cusk

There There
(*)
Tommy Orange

Comemadre
(*)
Roque Larraquy

The Frolic of the Beasts
(*)
Yukio Mishima

Ok, Mr. Field
(*)
Katharine Kilalea

Flights
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

She Would Be King
(*)
Wayetu Moore

Friday Black: Stories
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Unsheltered
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

The Governesses
(*)
Anne Serre

The Day the Sun Died
(*)
Yan Lianke

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