Book Riot | 09.11.2026 12:00
We’re celebrating our picks for the best fiction books of the century (so far). These are the award-winners, the buzziest books, the titles no book club or film studio could resist, the books we’re still talking about today. Fiction is a big tent covering a massive category of books but, for this list, we leaned heavily toward literary and contemporary fiction. This does include a smattering of speculative fiction, historical fiction, and other subcategories that toe the line, but you can find genre and subcategory lists among our previously released lists of Best Books of the Century (So Far).
