The Guardian koos de beste boeken van het afgelopen jaar. Hieronder de lijst voor fictie.

Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Margaret Atwood – The Testaments
Deborah Levy – The Man Who Saw Everything
Sandra Newman – The Heavens
Mark Haddon – The Porpoise
Max Porter – Lanny
James Meek – To Calais, in Ordinary Time
Robert Harris – The Second Sleep
Ali Smith – Spring
Sadie Jones – The Snakes
Tayari Jones – An American Marriage
Lucy Ellmann – Ducks, Newburyport
Ben Lerner – The Topeka School
Colson Whitehead – The Nickel Boys
Ann Patchett – The Dutch House
Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again
Yiyun Li – Where Reasons End
Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Valeria Luiselli – Lost Children Archive
Candice Carty-Williams – Queenie
Sara Collins – The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Taffy Brodesser-Akner – Fleishman Is in Trouble
Wendy Erskine – Sweet Home
Julia Armfield – Salt Slow
Kristen Roupenian – You Know You Want This
Sarah Hall – Sudden Traveller
Zadie Smith – Grand Union
Deborah Eisenberg – Your Duck Is My Duck
Vigdis Hjorth – Will and Testament
Khaled Khalifa – Death Is Hard Work
Pajtim Statovci – Crossing
Jokha Alharthi – Celestial Bodies
Tove Ditlevsen – Copenhagen Trilogy
Vasily Grossman – Stalingrad
Yōko Ogawa – The Memory Police

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