(i've read 497 books just in the past 5 years, so maybe that'll make the length of this list seem more reasonable)

by genre, in alphabetical order

fantasy/magical realism

• Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe
• The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

historical

• Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper
• Boy by Nicole Galland
• Costanza by Rachel Blackmore
• The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Pretender by Jo Harkin
• Rapture by Emily Maguire
• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
• Trust by Hernan Diaz
• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
• Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People by Marcos Antonios Hernandez
• You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

horror

• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
• Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
• Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
• We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

literary

• The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Birnam Wood by Elizabeth Catton
• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• Endling by Maria Reva
• Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• North Woods by Daniel Mason
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Temperance by Sonora Jha

mystery

• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• S by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams
• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

non fiction

• Cleopatra by Stacey Schiff
• Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend

sci fi/speculative

• Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel