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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern11/22/63 by Stephen KingState of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Art of Fielding by Chad HarbachThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Kirkus Best Books of 2011
88 books — 171 voters
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntThe Book of Jonas by Stephen DauHand Me Down by Melanie Thorne
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2012
99 books — 60 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelAnnihilation by Jeff VandermeerThe Bone Clocks by David MitchellThe Son by Jo Nesbø
Kirkus Review's Best Fiction Books 2014
64 books — 55 voters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonThe Cuckoo's Calling by Robert GalbraithJoyland by Stephen KingThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Kirkus Review's Best Fiction Books of 2013
100 books — 54 voters

A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsFates and Furies by Lauren GroffA Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia BerlinFortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2015
95 books — 46 voters
Miracle of the Rising Sun by Joseph SciutoDriftwood by Anthony Lee HeadThe Black Cathedral by Marcial GalaCatatonic Smile by Julian AguirreThings in Jars by Jess Kidd
Kirkus Reviews Starred Fiction 2020
105 books — 34 voters

Idlewild by Jude SierraNews of the World by Paulette JilesA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Portable Veblen by Elizabeth MckenzieForty Rooms by Olga Grushin
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2016
101 books — 28 voters
Silence of Shame by Wendy J. MenaraI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldCracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonAdministrations of Lunacy by Mab SegrestI Want You to Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
Kirkus Reviews Starred Nonfiction 2020
52 books — 27 voters

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini TaylorDelirium by Lauren OliverAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeChime by Franny BillingsleyThe Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Kirkus Best Teen Books of 2011
42 books — 26 voters
The Friend by Sigrid NunezMy Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghWashington Black by Esi EdugyanAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesCirce by Madeline Miller
Kirkus Reviews Best Ficton of 2018
107 books — 24 voters

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceSecondhand Time by Svetlana AlexievichWhite Trash by Nancy IsenbergPatient H.M. by Luke Dittrich
Kirkus Best Non-Fiction of 2016
99 books — 21 voters
Gemini by Sonya MukherjeeRebel of the Sands by Alwyn HamiltonThis Is the Story of You by Beth KephartThe Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnisWhen Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin
Kirkus Starred YA Fiction 2016 -- Part I
107 books — 20 voters

The Chestnut Man by Søren SveistrupThe Lost Man by Jane HarperSave Me from Dangerous Men by S.A. LelchukGood Girl, Bad Girl by Michael RobothamHeaven, My Home by Attica Locke
Kirkus's Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2019
14 books — 9 voters
Autumn by Ali SmithExit West by Mohsin HamidPachinko by Min Jin LeeAll Grown Up by Jami AttenbergSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Kirkus Best Fiction of 2017
99 books — 8 voters

On the Come Up by Angie ThomasVoices by David ElliottThe Grace Year by Kim LiggettSkip by Molly MendozaBloom by Kevin Panetta
Kirkus Best Young Adult Books of 2019
74 books — 7 voters
Sleep Well, Siba & Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya IsdahlCreepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron ReynoldsThe Fog by Kyo MaclearOver and Under the Pond by Kate MessnerTown Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz
Kirkus Best Picture Books 2017
68 books — 6 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsFoundation by Isaac AsimovSnow Crash by Neal StephensonFrankenstein by Jason Cobley
Kirkus Start Reading SciFi pt 6 - Trip Through History
13 books — 5 voters
The Queen of the Night by Alexander CheeForty Rooms by Olga GrushinThe Flood Girls by Richard FifieldYoungblood by Matt GallagherThe Photographers Wife by Suzanne Joinson
Kirkus Starred Reviews -- Fiction February 2016
33 books — 5 voters

Dewey Fairchild, Parent Problem Solver by Lorri Horn
Kirkus Starred Review -- Children's Literature 2017
1 book — 4 voters
Defectors by Joseph KanonExposed by Lisa ScottolineBluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeFierce Kingdom by Gin PhillipsKeep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah
Kirkus' Best Mystery & Thrillers of 2017
14 books — 4 voters

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