January

  • Luster, Raven Leilani
  • Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam

February

  • At Night All Blood is Black, David Diop
  • The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans

March

  • The Employees, Olga Ravn
  • Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden
  • Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead

April

  • Rusty Brown (Volume 1), Chris Ware
  • The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen
  • Sabrina, Nick Drnaso

July

  • dumb dumb dumb, Mary Jo Pehl
  • The Novelist, Jordan Castro

August

  • How to Write An Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee
  • Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness, Kristen Radtke
  • A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders

September

  • Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
  • The Twilight World, Werner Herzog

October

  • Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
  • Thank You, Mr. Nixon, Gish Jen
  • Liberation Day, George Saunders

November

  • Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
  • Hell of a Book, Jason Mott
  • Infinite Country, Patricia Engel
  • A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet
  • Ice, Anna Kavan

December

  • Blackass, A. Igoni Barrett
  • Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
  • The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, Anton Chekov
  • Afterparties, Anthony Vesna So
  • Sugar Street, Jonathan Dee
  • Marlena, Julie Buntin
  • When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut