Award category archive

Time – Best Fiction Books Winners

Browse Time Best Fiction Books winners and nominees by year. This archive follows one award category across the full Time history.

Time Best Fiction Books Cross-year archive

2021

Time Best Fiction Books results for the 2021 award year.

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Winner

Great Circle

Shipstead, Maggie

Standalone · Literary

May-2021 Time Best Fiction Books winner

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Afterparties: Stories

So, Anthony Veasna

Standalone · General Fiction

Aug-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Cloud Cuckoo Land

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Detransition, Baby

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Klara and the Sun

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Life of the Mind

Smallwood, Christine

Standalone · Psychological Suspense

Mar-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne

Standalone · Women's Fiction

Aug-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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My Monticello: Fiction

Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Open Water

Nelson, Caleb Azumah

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Prophets

Jones, Robert, Jr.

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2021 Time Best Fiction Books *

2020

Time Best Fiction Books results for the 2020 award year.

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Winner

The Vanishing Half

Standalone · Women's Fiction

Jun-2020 Time Best Fiction Books winner

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Breasts and Eggs

Kawakami, Mieko

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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A Burning

Majumdar, Megha

Standalone · Literary

Jun-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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A Children's Bible

Standalone · Literary

May-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Deacon King Kong

Standalone · General Fiction

Mar-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Homeland Elegies

Standalone · General Fiction

Sep-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

Van Den Berg, Laura

Standalone · General Fiction

Aug-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Mirror & the Light

Anne Boleyn Series · Book 3 · Literary

Mar-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Shuggie Bain

Stuart, Douglas

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Where the Wild Ladies Are

Standalone · Women's Fiction

Oct-2020 Time Best Fiction Books *

2019

Time Best Fiction Books results for the 2019 award year.

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Winner

The Nickel Boys

Whitehead, Colson

Standalone · Historical

Jul-2019 Time Best Fiction Books winner

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Dark Star Trilogy Series · Book 1 · Fantasy

Feb-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

Tokarczuk, Olga

Standalone · General Fiction

Sep-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Lost Children Archive

Luiselli, Valeria

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Need

Phillips, Helen

Standalone · Thriller

Jul-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Standalone · Literary

Jun-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Testaments

Atwood, Margaret

Gilead Series · Book 2 · Dystopian

Sep-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Topeka School

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Trust Exercise

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Where Reasons End

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2019 Time Best Fiction Books *

2018

Time Best Fiction Books results for the 2018 award year.

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Winner

The Mars Room

Kushner, Rachel

Standalone · Suspense

May-2018 Time Best Fiction Books winner

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An American Marriage

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Asymmetry

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Circe

Miller, Madeline

Standalone · Fantasy

Apr-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Florida

Standalone · General Fiction

Jun-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Gun Love

Clement, Jennifer

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Moshfegh, Ottessa

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Overstory

Powers, Richard

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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There There

Standalone · Literary

Jun-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Washington Black

Standalone · Action Adventure

Sep-2018 Time Best Fiction Books *

2017

Time Best Fiction Books results for the 2017 award year.

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Winner

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Standalone · Fantasy

Sep-2017 Time Best Fiction Books winner

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The Changeling

Lavalle, Victor

Standalone · Literary

Jun-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Days Without End

Barry, Sebastian

Standalone · Historical

Jan-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Exit West

Standalone · General Fiction

Mar-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Lincoln in the Bardo

Saunders, George

Standalone · Science Fiction

Feb-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Manhattan Beach

Standalone · Historical

Oct-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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New People

Standalone · General Fiction

Aug-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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The Ninth Hour

McDermott, Alice

Standalone · Literary

Sep-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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Transit

Outline Series · Book 2 · Literary

Jan-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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White Tears

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2017 Time Best Fiction Books *

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