The Narrow Road to the Deep North
On 2 lists: Booker Prize, NPR Books We Love
Curated category · 2006—2025
Best literary fiction
Award-winning and editorially recommended literary fiction across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.
- Selections
- 80
- Authors
- 71
- Lists & prizes
- 6
Showing 49–80 of 80
May We Be Forgiven
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Good Lord Bird
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Fiction, NPR Books We Love
The Luminaries
Booker Prize
The Orphan Master’s Son
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Bring Up the Bodies
On 2 lists: Booker Prize, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
The Round House
National Book Award for Fiction
The Song of Achilles
Women’s Prize for Fiction
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Salvage the Bones
National Book Award for Fiction
The Sense of an Ending
Booker Prize
The Tiger’s Wife
On 2 lists: Women’s Prize for Fiction, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
Lord of Misrule
National Book Award for Fiction
The Finkler Question
Booker Prize
The Lacuna
Women’s Prize for Fiction
Tinkers
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Home
Women’s Prize for Fiction
Let the Great World Spin
National Book Award for Fiction
Olive Kitteridge
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Wolf Hall
Booker Prize
Shadow Country
National Book Award for Fiction
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Road Home
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The White Tiger
Booker Prize
Half of a Yellow Sun
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Gathering
Booker Prize
The Road
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Tree of Smoke
On 2 lists: National Book Award for Fiction, The New York Times — 10 Best Books
March
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
On Beauty
Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Echo Maker
National Book Award for Fiction
The Inheritance of Loss
Booker Prize