ABD’nin önemli yayıncılık dergilerinden Publishers Weekly, 2026 yılının en iyi kitaplarını belirledi. Kurgu, kurgu dışı, şiir, polisiye, romantizm, bilimkurgu ve çocuk edebiyatı gibi farklı kategorileri kapsayan seçkide toplam 150 kitap yer aldı.

Derginin editörleri tarafından hazırlanan listede, yılın öne çıkan 10 kitabının yanı sıra farklı edebiyat türlerinden eserler de değerlendirildi. Seçkinin kapak yazarı ve öne çıkan isimlerinden biri, Transcription adlı romanıyla Ben Lerner oldu. Derginin değerlendirmesinde Lerner’ın romanı, teknoloji, sanat, bilinç ve insan ilişkileri üzerine güncel tartışmaları ele alan dikkat çekici bir eser olarak nitelendirildi.

Listenin kurgu kategorisinde Rachel Cusk’ın Life of M adlı romanı, Anjet Daanje’nin The Song of Stork and Dromedary adlı eseri ve Nijeryalı yazar ’Pemi Aguda’nın One Leg on Earth adlı romanı öne çıktı.

Seçkide yer alan diğer eserler arasında Chang-rae Lee’nin A Tender Age, Jayne Anne Phillips’in Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir ve Joseph Osmundson’ın Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood adlı kitapları da bulunuyor.

1. The AGI Chronicles – Kevin Roose
2. The Castle – Jon Ronson
3. Cool Machine – Colson Whitehead
4. The Danger to Be Sane – Rosa Montero
5. The Disappearers – Marlon James
6. The Palm House – Gwendoline Riley
7. Public Access Afterworld – Jane Schoenbrun
8. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State – Jill Lepore
9. This Vast Enterprise – Craig Fehrman
10. Transcription – Ben Lerner

11. The Abyss of Oblivion – Paco Roca ve Rodrigo Terrasa
12. The Abyss – Jeyamohan
13. And Then We Saw the Bag…: Trash to Them, Treasure to Us – Emma AdBåge
14. 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them – Ashely Alker
15. The Amateur – Chris Bohjalian
16. 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World – Liaquat Ahamed
17. Be Easy: New and Selected Poems – Adrian Matejka
18. Braving the Truth – Rachel Held Evans
19. Bad Words – Ríoghnach Robinson
20. As You Wake, Break the Shell – Becky Chambers
21. Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here) – Julia Wertz
22. Acid Green Velvet – Grace Krilanovich
23. Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters – Yevgenia Nayberg
24. Dad – Christian Robinson
25. Beth Is Dead – Katie Bernet
26. Eat (Like) the Rich: A Cookbook – Olivia Tiedemann
27. Backwater – James Sallis
28. Country of Lords – Kim Phillips-Fein
29. Intifadas – Edward Salem
30. Enemies to Lovers – Alisha Rai
31. Defy the Dusk – Danielle L. Jensen
32. The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living – Dara Horn
33. The Case of David Zimmerman – Lucas ve Arthur Harari
34. Aside from My Heart, All Is Well – Héctor Abad
35. Hometown – Shaun Tan
36. Goodbye, Koi – Jack Wong
37. Call of the Dragon – Natasha Bowen
38. My Jamaican Table – Andre Fowles
39. Die Famous – Michael Koryta
40. End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World – Naomi Klein ve Astra Taylor
41. Still House in the Desert: An Eco-Contemplation – Brenda Hillman
42. Pretend You Believe: How to Enter Religion – Noa Kushner
43. How to Kill a Guy in 10 Dates – Shailee Thompson
44. Honeysuckle – Bar Fridman-Tell
45. Charity and Sylvia – Tillie Walden
46. Country People – Daniel Mason
47. La Bandera: Poems of Resistance and Pride – Anika Aldamuy Denise
48. The Celestial Seas – T.A. Chan
49. Padma’s All American – Padma Lakshmi
50. The Fervent Whites – De’Shawn Charles Winslow
51. The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory – Emily Eakin
52. Swirl & Vortex – Larry Levis
53. The Jezebel List – Alisa Dean
54. Mazywood – Tananarive Due
55. The House with Nobody in It – Jon Klassen
56. We Mend with Gold – Kristin T. Lee
57. The Nightingales – Emil Wilson
58. Desperate Bodies – Lydia Mathis
59. Licorice – Kara LaReau
60. I Am Here – Kim Hyo-eun
61. Children of Owl – Darcie Little Badger
62. The Perfect Birth Myth – Avital Norman Nathman ve Deborah Wage
63. Fruit Fly – Josh Silver
64. Here Where We Live Is Our Country – Molly Crabapple
65. We – Layli Long Soldier
66. Score – Kennedy Ryan
67. Palaces of the Crow – Ray Nayler
68. Dèy – Edwidge Danticat
69. Listen to the Girls – Chrystal D. Giles
70. An Expanse of Blue – Kauakanilehua Māhoe Adams
71. Furious Violet – Sarai Walker
72. Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston – Emily Lordi
73. You & Me and You & Me and You & Me – Josie Lloyd ve Emlyn Rees
74. Persona – Aoife Josie Clements
75. I Am the Mountain – Steven Weinberg
76. Dooneen – Keith Ridgway
77. Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise – Xiong Liang
78. I Will Eat You in the End – David Duff
79. Few Blue Skies – Carolina Ixta
80. The Midnight Taxi – Yosha Gunasekera
81. I Eat the Stars – Sarah Wilson
82. The Poet Empress – Shen Tao
83. The Frenzy – Joyce Carol Oates
84. The Moon Without Stars – Chanel Miller
85. Loops – Jashar Awan
86. My Name Was Gerry Sass – Tiffany Hanssen
87. In Trees: An Exploration – Robert Moor
88. To Bewitch a Hunter – Luciano Lamberti
89. The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America – Gabriel Duckels ve David Levithan
90. It Will Come Back to You – Sigrid Nunez
91. The Queen’s Granddaughter – Diane Zahler
92. The Muéganos – Jaque Jours
93. Queen of Faces – Petra Lord
94. Paper Cut – Rachel Taff
95. Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America – Howard Bryant
96. The Left and the Lucky – Willy Vlautin
97. Raise the Bar – Fernanda Frick H.
98. Navigating Night – Julie Leung
99. A Scar Like a River – Lisa Graff
100. A Past Without Pictures – Jonathan Ames
101. Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour – Mark Haddon
102. Life of M – Rachel Cusk
103. The Second Life of Snap – Erin Entrada Kelly
104. Night Ride – Christopher Myers
105. Thornbird – E. Kennedy
106. A Violent Masterpiece – Jordan Harper
107. Man in the Mirror – Anand Giridharadas
108. Lovers XXX – Allie Rowbottom
109. Sisters Alone – Shifa Saltagi Safadi
110. The Ones Who Came Before – Kevin Maillard
111. Traitors’ Nest – Frances Hardinge
112. The Mattering Instinct – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
113. The Windowman – Christopher Goffard
114. Nebraska – Monica Datta
115. This Is a Door – Daniel Nayeri
116. Open: Every Seed Has Its Moment – Robert Agis
117. Wake Now in the Fire – Jarrett Dapier
118. Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team – A.M. Gittlitz
119. The Occidental Book of the Dead – T. Geronimo Johnson
120. Where the Wild Horses Are – Amy Alznauer
121. A Riddle of Eels – Nicholas Day
122. Where You’ll Find Us – Jen St. Jude
123. Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built – Gayle Feldman
124. One Leg on Earth – ‘Pemi Aguda
125. You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This – Aaron Starmer
126. Story Rug – Sophie Blackall
127. Words Spoken True – Anne Broyles
128. On Morrison – Namwali Serpell
129. Paradiso 17 – Hannah Lillith Assadi
130. The Sweetest of Lemons – Daniel Nayeri
131. Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging, and Hope – Zaina Arafat
132. The School of Night – Karl Ove Knausgård
133. Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice – Carole Boston Weatherford
134. The Proof in the Code – Kevin Hartnett
135. Sisters in Yellow – Mieko Kawakami
136. Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers – Lani Watson
137. A Very Good Parade – Eleanor Davis
138. The Song of Stork and Dromedary – Anjet Daanje
139. While We’re Here – Anne Wynter
140. The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World – Nathaniel Philbrick
141. The Wise Pickle – Sarah Howden
142. The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game – C. Thi Nguyen
143. A Tender Age – Chang-rae Lee
144. Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir – Jayne Anne Phillips
145. Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood – Joseph Osmundson
146. When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine – Francesca Albanese
147. The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers – Carlos Barragán
148. A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer – Jenny Uglow
149. The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers – Carlos Barragán
150. 150. A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer – Jenny Uglow