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Best fiction & literature

Award-winning and editorially recommended fiction & literature across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

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2016Fiction & literature

Commonwealth

Ann Patchett

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2016Fiction & literature

Eleven Hours

Pamela Erens

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2016Fiction & literature

Forbidden

Beverly Jenkins

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2016Fiction & literature

Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

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2016Fiction & literature

Modern Lovers

Emma Straub

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2016Fiction & literature

Multiple Choice

Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell

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2016Fiction & literature

Reputations

Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean

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2016Fiction & literature

Swing Time

Zadie Smith

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2016Fiction & literature

The Fortunes

Peter Ho Davies

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2016Fiction & literature

The Girls

Emma Cline

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