‘Tis the season—of hot apple cider, gifts, and of course most importantly, love and family best-of year-end lists. After all, there seem to be more of them than just about anything else at the moment. So as is now tradition, I have collated every one I could find, tallied up their recommendations, and figured out which books were most often included. Does that make them the best? Well, I don’t know—it depends on how much stock you put in popular consensus. Perhaps you’ll just have to read them for yourself.

This year, I counted lists (often multiple lists) from 37 sources, tracking a total of 749 books. I’m sure I didn’t get every single list that’s out there, and more come every day. But for what it’s worth, my findings are below—and you’ll find the list of the sites I consulted at the very end.

21 lists:

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

20 lists:

Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is In Trouble

Sally Rooney, Normal People

17 lists:

Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

16 lists:

Susan Choi, Trust Exercise

Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

15 lists:

Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

14 lists:

Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing

13 lists:

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

12 lists:

Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House

Marlon James, Black Leopard Red Wolf

Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

Téa Obreht, Inland

Miriam Toews, Women Talking

11 lists:

Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

Robert Macfarlane, Underland

Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

Zadie Smith, Grand Union

10 lists:

Chanel Miller, Know My Name

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & the Six

9 lists:

Ted Chiang, Exhalation

Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives

Yoko Ogawa, tr. Stephen Snyder, The Memory Police

Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

Helen Phillips, The Need

Bryan Washington, Lot: Stories

8 lists:

Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said

Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias

7 lists:

Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

Jami Attenberg, All This Could Be Yours

Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

Casey Cep, Furious Hours

Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy

Jayson Greene, Once More We Saw Stars

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

Stephen King, The Institute

Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything

Casey McQuiston, Red, White and Royal Blue

Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing

Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories

Jennifer Weiner, Mrs. Everything

Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

6 lists:

Jericho Brown, The Tradition

Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway

Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises

David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

Nell Zink, Doxology

5 lists:

Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game

Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

Mira Jacob, Good Talk

Stephanie Land, Maid

Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn’t Require You

Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift

Chris Ware, Rusty Brown

Julie Yip-Williams, The Unwinding of the Miracle

4 lists:

Mona Awad, Bunny

Blake Crouch, Recursion

Jaquira Díaz, Ordinary Girls

Samantha Downing, My Lovely Wife

Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill

Anissa Gray, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

Tessa Hadley, Late in the Day

Isabella Hammad, The Parisian

Jane Harper, The Lost Man

Amy Hempel, Sing to It

Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl

Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes

Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

Attica Locke, Heaven, My Home

Adrian McKinty, The Chain

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard

Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

Sandra Newman, The Heavens

George Packer, Our Man

Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink

Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist

Joanne Ramos, The Farm

Dani Shapiro, Inheritance

Ali Smith, Spring

David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The Revisioners

Lara Williams, Supper Club

Ali Wong, Dear Girls

Albert Woodfox, with Leslie George, Solitary

Sources:

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