The most popular book in 2024, Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange.
According to Booklist from the American Library Association, these are the Top of the List adult fiction winners from 2005–2024.
- 2005 The March by E.L. Doctorow
- 2006 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 2007 Falling Man by Don DeLillo
- 2008 Lush Life by Richard Price
- 2009 Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
- 2010 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 2011 The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
- 2012 The Lower River by Paul Theroux
- 2013 The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis
- 2014 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- 2015 Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- 2016 Swing Time by Zadie Smith
- 2017 Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
- 2018 The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
- 2019 Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
- 2020 These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
- 2021 The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- 2022 The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
- 2023 The Apartment by Ana Menéndez
- 2024 Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
- 2025: Check in at the end of the year for the Top of the List 2025 at booklistonline.com.
Gabrielle Clark is a librarian at Maple Grove Library. Read more at hclib.org.
