Christian Science Monitor Best BookFiction

Given by The Christian Science Monitor

234 Works 719,023 Books 33,698 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Art (2), Biography (15), Fiction (234), General Fiction (19), History (5), Memoir (7), Music (3), Mysteries/thrillers (5), Mystery (4), Nonfiction (292), Sport (2), No Category (30)
Years:
All, 2023 (13), 2019 (11), 2018 (13), 2017 (13), 2016 (15), 2015 (10), 2014 (10), 2013 (15), 2012 (10), 2011 (10), 2010 (11), 2009 (12), 2008 (25), 2007 (19), 2006 (3), 2005 (16), 2004 (27), 2001 (1)
WorkYear
The First Ladies by Marie Benedict
2023
Earth's the Right Place for Love by Elizabeth Berg
2023
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
2023
The General and Julia by Jon Clinch
2023
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
2023
Loot by Tania James
2023
The Liberators by E.J. Koh
2023
North Woods by Daniel Mason
2023
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2023
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
2023
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
2023
The Museum of Failures: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
2023
Stealing by Margaret Verble
2023
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2019
Strangers and Cousins: A Novel by Leah Hager Cohen
2019
Akin by Emma Donoghue
2019
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah
2019
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
2019
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
2019
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
2019
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry
2019
Chances Are… by Richard Russo
2019
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2019
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
2018
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
2018
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
2018
The Cloister by James Carroll
2018
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
2018
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper
2018
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
2018
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr
2018
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
2018
Circe by Madeline Miller
2018
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris
2018
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
2018
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
2018
Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
2017
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
2017
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
2017
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
2017
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories by Penelope Lively
2017
Glass Houses by Louise Penny
2017
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
2017
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
2017
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
2017
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
2017
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2017
The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela
2016
The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam
2016
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
2016
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
2016
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
2016
The Trespasser by Tana French
2016
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
2016
The Nix by Nathan Hill
2016
Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally
2016
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
2016
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
2016
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
2016
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
2016
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
2016
Green on Blue: A Novel by Elliot Ackerman
2015
The Automobile Club of Egypt by Alaa al-Aswani
2015
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
2015
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
2015
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
2015
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
2015
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
2015
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
2015
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
2015
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
2015
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
2014
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
2014
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2014
The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
2014
A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin
2014
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
2014
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
2014
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton
2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
2014
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
2013
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
2013
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
2013
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2013
Harvest by Jim Crace
2013
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
2013
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
2013
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
2013
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
2013
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
2013
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
2013
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2013
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2012
Canada by Richard Ford
2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
2012
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
2012
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
2012
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
2012
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
2012
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
2011
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
2011
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2011
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
2011
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
2011
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
2011
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
2010
Room by Emma Donoghue
2010
Faithful Place by Tana French
2010
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Goldstein
2010
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
2010
Tinkers by Paul Harding
2010
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
2010
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
2010
Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni
2010
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
2010
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
2010
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2009
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
2009
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
2009
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
2009
Woodsburner by John Pipkin
2009
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2009
Love and Summer by William Trevor
2009
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
2009
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
2008
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
2008
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
2008
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
2008
America America by Ethan Canin
2008
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
2008
The Konkans by Tony D'Souza
2008
The Blue Star: A Novel by Tony Earley
2008
So Brave, Young and Handsome: A Novel by Leif Enger
2008
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
2008
The Likeness by Tana French
2008
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
2008
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
2008
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
2008
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2008
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
2008
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
2008
Serena by Ron Rash
2008
Driftless by David Rhodes
2008
Home by Marilynne Robinson
2008
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
2008
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka
2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2008
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón
2007
Heyday by Kurt Andersen
2007
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
2007
Finn by Jon Clinch
2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2007
The Maytrees: A Novel by Annie Dillard
2007
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
2007
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
2007
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
2007
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
2007
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
2007
Zoli by Colum McCann
2007
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
2007
Run by Ann Patchett
2007
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
2007
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
2007
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich
2007
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
2007
A Long, Long Way by Sebastian Barry
2006
Tilting at Windmills: A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knight by Julian Branston
2006
Pearl by Mary Gordon
2006
The Sea by John Banville
2005
March by Geraldine Brooks
2005
A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
2005
Ireland by Frank Delaney
2005
The March by E. L. Doctorow
2005
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
2005
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
2005
The Ha-Ha by Dave King
2005
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
2005
Saturday by Ian McEwan
2005
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
2005
My Jim by Nancy Rawles
2005
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
2005
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
2005
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2005
The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell
2005
Human Capital: A Novel by Stephen Amidon
2004
The Darling by Russell Banks
2004
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
2004
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
2004
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2004
Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone
2004
Four Souls by Louise Erdrich
2004
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
2004
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
2004
Someone to Run With by David Grossman
2004
Eventide by Kent Haruf
2004
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2004
War Trash by Ha Jin
2004
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
2004
Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee
2004
But Come Ye Back: A Novel in Stories by Beth Lordan
2004
Prince Edward: A Novel by Dennis McFarland
2004
The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers
2004
Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff
2004
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
2004
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
2004
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
2004
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2004
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
2004
The Master by Colm Tóibín
2004
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
2004
Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z.: A Novel by Debra Weinstein
2004
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
2001

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