The definitive ranking · Books
Fiction books
Built from 431 forced-choice rankings by 38 Tāstmakers.
The highest-ranked fiction book on Tāst is Dune, at 8.0 from 3 rankings.
| Book | Score | Rankings | Range of opinion | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dune2005 | 8.0 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 5 | Middlemarch2008 | 7.8 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 7 | Babel2022 | 7.8 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 9 | East of Eden2003 | 7.7 | 3 | Divisive | |
| 12 | The Song of Achilles2012 | 7.7 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 13 | The Lies of Locke Lamora2006 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 15 | Anxious People2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 17 | Hurricane Season2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 19 | Stoner2010 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 20 | Flowers for Algernon2004 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 24 | The Transit of Venus2021 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 27 | The City of Brass2017 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 29 | Beartown2017 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 30 | It2017 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 32 | The Underground Railroad2018 | 7.6 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 33 | Scattered All Over the Earth2022 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 34 | Second Place2021 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 35 | Remarkably Bright Creatures2022 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 38 | Memoirs of Hadrian1984 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 40 | The Women2024 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 42 | My Brilliant Friend2012 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 46 | Leaving Time2014 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 48 | I Who Have Never Known Men1997 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 49 | The Passion According to G.H2022 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 51 | Red Rising2014 | 7.6 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 52 | The Story of the Lost Child2015 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 57 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 59 | A Short Stay in Hell2026 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 66 | The Way of Kings2010 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 67 | Birnam Wood2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 76 | Jane Eyre2003 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 78 | Orbital2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 81 | My Struggle: Book 12013 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 84 | The Netanyahus2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 86 | Rejection2025 | 7.5 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 90 | A Man Called Ove2014 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 92 | The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 97 | Station Eleven2014 | 7.5 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 99 | Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 102 | All the Light We Cannot See2014 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 103 | The Blacktongue Thief2021 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 105 | Jurassic Park : [novel]1991 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 106 | Where the Crawdads Sing Deluxe Edition2019 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 107 | The Secret Life Of Sunflowers2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 109 | Ducks, Newburyport2019 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 110 | The Beekeeper of Aleppo2019 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 111 | The Winners2023 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 112 | Wool2020 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 115 | The Bass Rock2021 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 117 | Oryx and Crake2004 | 7.4 | 2 | Too few to say |