Top four

• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
• The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas

Five starred in 2026

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Every Day I Read by Hwang Bo-Reum
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• The Burning God by R.F. Kuang