(An asterisk indicates the winner.)

• Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
• Karen Shepard, The Bad Boy's Wife
• Lily Tuck, The News From Paraguay
• T.C. Boyle, The Inner Circle
• Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• Ben Jones, The Rope Eater
• Cynthia Ozick, Heir To the Glimmering World
• Stephen Amidon, Human Capital
• *David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
• Muriel Spark, The Finishing School
• Ward Just, An Unfinished Season
• Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
• Tom Wolfe, I am Charlotte Simmons
• Jonathan Ames, Wake Up, Sir
• Louis de Bernieres, Birds Without Wings
• Lorraine Adams, Harbor
• Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
• Dave Bergen, The Time In Between
• Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
• Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
• Stephanie Doyon, The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole
• Sam Lipsyte, Home Land
• Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
• Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men
• Whitney Terrel, The King of Kings County
• Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
• *Ali Smith, The Accidental
• Zadie Smith, On Beauty
• Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
• Kristen Allio, Garner
• Ian McEwan, Saturday
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Half of a Yellow Sun
• Richard Powers, The Echo Maker
• Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children
• Sam Savage, Firmin
• Emily Barton, Brookland
• Peter Orner, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
• *Cormac McCarthy, The Road
• Julian Barnes, Arthur and George
• Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn
• Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August
• Monica Ali, Alentejo Blue
• Colson Whitehead, Apex Hides the Hurt
• Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
• Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon, Pride of Baghdad
• Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
• Jeff Parker, Ovenman
• Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
• Vendela Vida, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
• Joshua Ferris, Then We Came To the End
• Anya Ulinich, Petropolis
• Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet
• Stephen Carter, New England White
• Ann Patchett, Run
• Stephen Marche, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
• Laura Lippmann, What the Dead Know
• *Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
• Tom McCarthy, Remainder
• Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher
• Brock Clarke, The Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
• Roberto Bolano, 2666
• Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock
• Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
• Louis de Bernieres, A Partisan's Daughter
• Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
• Mark Sarvas, Harry, Revised
• Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
• Tom Piazza, City of Refuge
• Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country
• E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
• Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency
• Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
• *Toni Morrison, A Mercy
• Keith Lee Morris, The Dart League King
• Marilynne Robinson, Home
• Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions
• Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
• Nami Mun, Miles From Nowhere
• John Wray, Lowboy
• Kathryn Stockett, The Help
• Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
• Bill Cotter, Fever Chart
• Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
• Richard Russo, That Old Cape Magic
• *Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
• Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomics
• Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
• Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
• Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
• Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
• Victor LaValle, Big Machine
• Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
• Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
• Emma Donoghue, Room
• *Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
• Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
• Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
• Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
• Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
• Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
• Anne Carson, Nox
• Marcy Dermansky, Bad Marie
• Teddy Wayne, Kapitoll
• Don Winslow, Savages
• Amy Greene, Bloodroot
• Lionel Shriver, So Much For That
• James Hynes, Next
• Eric Puchner, Model Home
• Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother
• Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
• Teju Cole, Open City
• Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
• *Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
• Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
• Alan Hollinghurst, Stranger’s Child
• Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
• Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
• Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
• Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table
• Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
• Donald Ray Pollock, Devil All the Time
• Karen Russell, Swamplandia
• Kate Zambreno, Green Girl
• Laurent Binet, HHhH
• Louise Erdrich, The Round House
• Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
• John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
• Lauren Groff, Arcadia
• Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
• A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
• *Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master’s Son
• Miles Klee, Ivyland
• Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
• Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
• Alice Munro, Dear Life
• Maria Semple, Where’d You Go Bernadette
• Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
• Chris Ware, Building Stories
• At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
• Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
• Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences
• Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
• Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
• Herman Koch, The Dinner
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
• Kiese Laymon, Long Division
• *James McBride, The Good Lord Bird
• Scott McClanahan, Hill William
• Philipp Meyer, The Son
• Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
• Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
• Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
• Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
• Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
• Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely
• Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun
• Will Chancellor, A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
• Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
• Roxane Gay, An Untamed State
• Lars Iyer, Wittgenstein Jr
• Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
• Phil Klay, Redeployment
• *Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
• David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
• Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
• Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
• Ariel Schrag, Adam
• Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
• Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
• Evie Wyld, All the Birds, Singing
• Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz, The New World
• *Paul Beatty, The Sellout
• Zachary Thomas Dodson, Bats of the Republic
• Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
• Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
• Kent Haruf, Our Souls At Night
• Bhanu Kapil, Ban en Banlieue
• Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
• Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
• Richard Price, The Whites
• Fran Ross, Oreo
• Jim Shepard, The Book of Aron
• Karolina Waclawiak, The Invaders
• Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
• John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries
• Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread
• Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
• Chris Bachedler, The Throwback Special
• Brit Bennett, The Mothers
• Michael Chabon, Moonglow
• Alvaro Enrigue, Sudden Death
• Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman
• Yaa Gyasi, The Homegoing
• Nathan Hill, The Nix
• Han Kang, The Vegetarian
• Jonathan Lee, High Dive
• Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven
• C.E. Morgan, The Sport of Kings
• Dexter Palmer, Version Control
• Max Porter, Grief is the Thing With Feathers
• Francine Prose, Mister Monkey
• Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
• Michelle Tea, Black Wave
• *Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad
• Kayla Rae Whitaker, The Animators
• Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan
• Eugene Lim, Dear Cyborgs
• Edouard Louis, The End of Eddy
• Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
• Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
• Rachel Khong, Goodbye, Vitamin
• Emily Ruskovich, Idaho
• Elif Batuman, The Idiot
• George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
• Shanthi Sekaran, Lucky Boy
• Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach
• Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
• Pola Oloixarac, Savage Theories
• *Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
• Percival Everett, So Much Blue
• Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida
• Hari Kunzru, White Tears
• Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra
• Jesse Ball, Census
• Heidi Sopinka, The Dictionary of Animal Languages
• Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
• Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels
• Tom Rachman, The Italian Teacher
• Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
• Anna Burns, Milkman
• *Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister the Serial Killer
• Richard Powers, The Overstory
• Nafkote Tamirat, The Parking Lot Attendant
• Nicola Griffith, So Lucky
• Tommy Orange, There There
• Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
• Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
• Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
• Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil
• Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country
• Jami Attenberg, All This Could Be Yours
• Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is In Trouble
• Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
• Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
• Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
• *Sally Rooney, Normal People
• Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
• Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
• Maria Gainza, Optic Nerve
• Caleb Crain, Overthrow
• Suneeta Peres da Costa, Saudade
• Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
• Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
• Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay
• Ben H. Winters, Golden State
• Elvia Wilk, Oval
• Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow
• Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
• Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible
• James McBride, Deacon King Kong
• *Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
• Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
• Raven Leilani, Luster
• Bryan Washington, Memorial
• Suzanna Clarke, Piranesi
• Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
• Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
• Percival Everett, Telephone
• Augustina Bazterrica, Tender is the Flesh
• Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
• Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
• Quan Berry, We Ride Upon Sticks
• Ilze Hugo, The Down Days
• Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
• Gish Jen, The Resisters
• Mona Awad, All's Well
• Sally Rooney, _Beautiful World, Where Are You
• Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
• Keenan Norris, The Confession of Copeland Cane
• Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
• Anne Garreta, In Concrete
• Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
• *Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
• Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
• Lauren Groff, Matrix
• Lina Meruane, Nervous System
• Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
• Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
• Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
• Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
• J. Robert Lennon, Subdivision
• Percival Everett, The Trees
• Benjamin Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
• R.F. Kuang, Babel
• *Yiyun Lee, The Book of Goose
• Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
• Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt
• Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents
• Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
• Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling
• Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
• Xochitl Gonzalez, Olga Dies Dreaming
• Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger
• Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch
• Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
• Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
• Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy
• Ken Kalfus, 2 A.M. In Little America
• Karen Jennings, An Island
• John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano
• Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
• Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
• Justin Torres, Blackouts
• Mattie Lubchansky, Boys Weekend
• Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All-Stars
• Tom Rob Smith, Cold People
• Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel, Dayswork
• Emma Cline, The Guest
• James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
• Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
• Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
• Henry Hoke, Open Throat
• Paz Pardo, The Shamshine Blind
• Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking For Is In the Library
• Tom Piazza, The Auburn Conference
• Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
• Patrick deWitt, The Librarianist