Best of the Year

Golden Hill, Francis Spufford
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
Autumn, Ali Smith
Shipping Out, David Foster Wallace

Worth the Read

The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
Warlight, Michael Ondaatje
Memento Park, Mark Sarvas
French Exit, Patrick DeWitt
The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday
The Innocent Wife (Red River), Amy Lloyd
The Witch Elm, Tana French
Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller

Light Reading

The French Girl, Lexie Elliott
Laura and Emma, Kate Greathead
The Ghost Notebooks, Ben Dolnick
Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton
The Banker’s Wife, Cristina Alger
A Double Life, Flynn Berry

Not So Much

The Only Story, Julian Barnes
Melmoth, Sarah Perry
Mrs., Caitlin Macy
Alternate Side, Anna Quindlen
The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen