The Greatest Fiction Books Since 2018

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1110 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 American English
1211 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
1983 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
2107 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 American English
2224 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 American English
2242 Milkman Anna Burns 2018 Irish English
2337 There There Tommy Orange 2018 American English
2344 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021 Irish English
2527 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong 2019 American English
2589 Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 2020 Irish English
2636 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
2652 Circe Madeline Miller 2018 American English
2706 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 Mexican English
2736 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
2806 James Percival Everett 2024 American English
2829 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
2883 Septology Jon Fosse 2019 Norwegian Norwegian
3053 Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston 2019 American English
3060 Trust Hernan Díaz 2022 Argentinian English
3172 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
3205 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
3317 The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang 2018 Vietnamese English
3430 Get A Life, Chloe Brown Talia Hibbert 2019 British English
3467 Kudos Rachel Cusk 2018 British English
3472 We Do Not Part Han Kang 2021 Korean Korean
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3598 The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 2018 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
3613 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
3848 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
3927 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
4077 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
4096 Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall 2020 British English
4155 Asymmetry Lisa Halliday 2018 American English
4161 No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood 2021 American English
4392 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018 American English
4415 Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters 2021 American English
4470 Intermezzo Sally Rooney 2024 Irish English
4505 North Woods Daniel Mason 2023 American English
4577 Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov 2020 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4588 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 2019 American English
4603 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
4617 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
4827 The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson 2018 American English
4865 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4938 Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood 2023 Australian English
4977 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
5153 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5154 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 2018 American English
5355 Praiseworthy Alexis Wright 2024 Australian English
5390 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
5425 Glorious Exploits Ferdia Lennon 2024 Irish English
5426 At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop 2018 French French
5462 The Animals In That Country Laura Jean McKay 2020 Australian English
5480 The Ministry For the Future Kim Stanley Robinson 2020 American English
5507 Seven Days In June Tia Williams 2021 American English
5529 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5581 This Is How You Lose The Time War Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone 2019 Multiple English
5618 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
5623 Biography Of X Catherine Lacey 2023 American English
5633 Sabrina Nick Drnaso 2018 American English
5636 Book Lovers Emily Henry 2021 American English
5651 Nothing To See Here Kevin Wilson 2019 American English
5679 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
5687 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
5693 Night Boat To Tangier Kevin Barry 2019 Irish English
5720 Warlight Michael Ondaatje 2018 Canadian English
5804 Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 2024 American English
5962 This Is Happiness Niall Williams 2019 Irish English
5965 A Princess In Theory Alyssa Cole 2018 American English
6084 My Sister, The Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite 2018 Nigerian English
6156 The God Of The Woods Liz Moore 2024 Unknown English
6301 Rejection Tony Tulathimutte 2024 American English
6333 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich 2020 American English
6340 No No Boy John Okada 2024 American English
6368 The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden 2024 Unknown Unknown
6375 The Priory Of The Orange Tree Samantha Shannon 2019 British English
6442 Tomb Of Sand Geetanjali Shree 2018 Indian Hindi
6461 Never Did The Fire Diamela Eltit 2022 Chilean Spanish
6507 Wild Houses Colin Barrett 2024 Irish English
6525 The Mars Room Rachel Kushner 2018 American English
6582 Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi 2018 Nigerian English
6598 Long Island Colm Toibin 2024 Irish Unknown
6608 The Anomaly Hervé Le Tellier 2020 French French
6681 Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby 2020 American English
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6710 The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 Zambian English
6820 The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal 2018 American English
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
6851 Apeirogon Colum McCann 2020 Irish English
6853 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
6868 The Cruel Prince Holly Black 2018 American English
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
6906 Washington Black Esi Edugyan 2018 Canadian English
6947 Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann 2019 British English
6983 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 American English
6986 The Testaments Margaret Atwood 2019 Canadian English
6991 The Employees Olga Ravn 2018 Danish Danish
7054 Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 American English
7063 Nightcrawling Leila Mottley 2022 American English
7099 The Dutch House Ann Patchett 2019 American English
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7129 Knife Salman Rushdie 2024 British English
7142 Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano 2023 American English
7154 The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny Kiran Desai 2025 Unknown English
7188 Pet Akwaeke Emezi 2019 American English
7191 Heartstopper Alice Oseman 2018 British English
7211 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton 2018 Australian English
7213 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
7563 Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad 2023 British English
7583 Orbital Samantha Harvey 2024 Unknown Unknown
7584 Verity Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
7585 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
7591 The Women Kristin Hannah 2024 American English
7594 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
7631 Telephone Percival Everett 2020 American English
7632 When The Clock Broke John Ganz 2024 Unknown English
7649 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7665 Victory City Salman Rushdie 2023 British English