Publishers Weekly Best Books - Top 10 (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

2023

The Talk
(*)
Darrin Bell

My Work
(*)
Olga Ravn

The Wren, the Wren
(*)
Anne Enright

The MANIAC
(*)
Benjamin Labatut

Same Bed Different Dreams
(*)
Ed Park

2022

Activities of Daily Living
(*)
Lisa Hsiao Chen

All the Lovers in the Night
(*)
Mieko Kawakami

The Rabbit Hutch
(*)
Tess Gunty

The Birdcatcher
(*)
Gayl Jones

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
(*)
Kate Beaton

The Furrows
(*)
Namwali Serpell

2021

Second Place
(*)
Rachel Cusk

A Shock
(*)
Keith Ridgway

Wayward
(*)
Dana Spiotta

Assembly
(*)
Natasha Brown (1)

The War for Gloria
(*)
Atticus Lish

2020

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

A Saint from Texas
(*)
Edmund White

Sisters
(*)
Daisy Johnson

Homeland Elegies
(*)
Ayad Akhtar

The Last Great Road Bum
(*)
Hector Tobar

2019

Optic Nerve
(*)
Maria Gainza

Trust Exercise
(*)
Susan Choi

The Nickel Boys
(*)
Colson Whitehead

From the Shadows
(*)
Juan Jose Millas

The Man Who Saw Everything
(*)
Deborah Levy

2018

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
(*)
Denis Johnson

Asymmetry
(*)
Lisa Halliday

The Shape of the Ruins
(*)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Melmoth
(*)
Sarah Perry

Insurrecto
(*)
Gina Apostol

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Top 10

Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018