Top four ↴

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

✰ Five starred in 2026 ✰

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