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Literary Fiction · 2020s

Best Literary Fiction of the 2020s

The best literary fiction books first published in the 2020s, ranked — a focused list of 57 titles.

Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell · 2020 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart · 2020 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Mirror & the Light Hilary Mantel · 2020 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Midnight Library Matt Haig · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Interior Chinatown Charles Yu · 2020 Essential Read See details →
When You Trap a Tiger Tae Keller · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anappara · 2020 Essential Read See details →
The Mermaid of Black Conch Monique Roffey · 2020 Essential Read See details →
October October Katya Balen · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Beautiful World Where Are You Sally Rooney · 2021 Essential Read See details →
The Four Winds Kristin Hannah · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Small Things Like These Claire Keegan · 2021 Essential Read See details →
The Promise Damon Galgut · 2021 Essential Read See details →
The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen · 2021 Essential Read See details →
The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Jade Legacy Fonda Lee · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Trust Hernan Diaz · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Young Mungo Douglas Stuart · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Babel R. F. Kuang · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Book of Goose Yiyun Li · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Nettle and Bone T. Kingfisher · 2022 Essential Read See details →
Freewater Amina Luqman-Dawson · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Devil Takes You Home Gabino Iglesias · 2022 Essential Read See details →
These Days Lucy Caldwell · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Boy Lost in the Maze Joseph Coelho · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store James McBride · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Bee Sting Paul Murray · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Orbital Samantha Harvey · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Prophet Song Paul Lynch · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Brotherless Night V. V. Ganeshananthan · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Blackouts Justin Torres · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Witch King Martha Wells · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Eyes and the Impossible Dave Eggers · 2023 Essential Read See details →
The Reformatory Tananarive Due · 2023 Essential Read See details →
Hungry Ghosts Kevin Jared Hosein · 2023 Essential Read See details →
James Percival Everett · 2024 Essential Read See details →
The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Small Rain Garth Greenwell · 2024 Essential Read See details →
The First State of Being Erin Entrada Kelly · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Someone You Can Build a Nest In John Wiswell · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Flesh David Szalay · 2025 Essential Read See details →
Angel Down Daniel Kraus · 2025 Essential Read See details →

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