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Entertainment Weekly – Best Books: Top 10 Winners

Browse Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 winners and nominees by year. This archive follows one award category across the full Entertainment Weekly history.

Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 Cross-year archive

2021

Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 results for the 2021 award year.

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Winner

Infinite Country

Engel, Patricia

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 winner

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Doerr, Anthony

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Detransition, Baby

Peters, Torrey

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Great Circle

Shipstead, Maggie

Standalone · Literary

May-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Intimacies

Kitamura, Katie

Standalone · Thriller

Jul-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Milk Fed

Broder, Melissa

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

No One Is Talking About This

Lockwood, Patricia

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

The Prophets

Jones, Robert, Jr.

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2021 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

2020

Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 results for the 2020 award year.

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Winner

The Glass Hotel

Mandel, Emily St. John

Standalone · Thriller

Mar-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 winner

A Burning

Majumdar, Megha

Standalone · Literary

Jun-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Daddy

Cline, Emma

Standalone · Women's Fiction

Sep-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Deacon King Kong

McBride, James

Standalone · General Fiction

Mar-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Hamnet

O'Farrell, Maggie

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Homeland Elegies

Akhtar, Ayad

Standalone · General Fiction

Sep-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Leave the World Behind

Alam, Rumaan

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Memorial

Washington, Bryan

Standalone · General Fiction

Nov-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Transcendent Kingdom

Gyasi, Yaa

Standalone · Literary

Sep-2020 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

2019

Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 results for the 2019 award year.

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Winner

Normal People

Rooney, Sally

Standalone · General Fiction

Apr-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 winner

Bowlaway

McCracken, Elizabeth

Standalone · General Fiction

Feb-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Disappearing Earth

Phillips, Julia

Standalone · Thriller

May-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Fleishman Is in Trouble

Brodesser-Akner, Taffy

Standalone · General Fiction

Jul-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Girl, Woman, Other

Evaristo, Bernardine

Standalone · Women's Fiction

Dec-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

The Need

Phillips, Helen

Standalone · Thriller

Jul-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

The Nickel Boys

Whitehead, Colson

Standalone · Historical

Jul-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

Nothing to See Here

Wilson, Kevin

Standalone · General Fiction

Nov-2019 Entertainment Weekly Best Books: Top 10 *

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