The definitive ranking · Books
Fiction books
Built from 530 forced-choice rankings by 39 Tāstmakers.
The highest-ranked fiction book on Tāst is Dune, at 7.9 from 3 rankings.
| Book | Score | Rankings | Range of opinion | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dune2005 | 7.9 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 3 | East of Eden2003 | 7.9 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 6 | Middlemarch2008 | 7.7 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 10 | Babel2022 | 7.7 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 12 | The Lies of Locke Lamora2006 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 15 | The Song of Achilles2012 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 16 | Remarkably Bright Creatures2022 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 20 | Anxious People2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 22 | The Angel's Game2009 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 23 | Hurricane Season2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 25 | Stoner2010 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 27 | Pale Fire2011 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 28 | Flowers for Algernon2004 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 32 | The Transit of Venus2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 34 | The Grapes of Wrath2002 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 36 | The City of Brass2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 38 | It2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 41 | Beartown2017 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 42 | Second Place2021 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 43 | My Friends2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 46 | The Underground Railroad2018 | 7.5 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 48 | Memoirs of Hadrian1984 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 49 | Scattered All Over the Earth2022 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 52 | The Women2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 53 | My Brilliant Friend2012 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 57 | Leaving Time2014 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 59 | I Who Have Never Known Men1997 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 60 | Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)2021 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 63 | The Passion According to G.H2022 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 64 | The Story of the Lost Child2015 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 67 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 71 | A Short Stay in Hell2026 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 74 | A Visit from the Goon Squad2010 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 77 | The Way of Kings2010 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 83 | Use of Weapons2008 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 86 | Birnam Wood2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 88 | My Struggle: Book 12013 | 7.4 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 90 | Jane Eyre2003 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 95 | Rejection2025 | 7.4 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 100 | Orbital2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 102 | Red Rising2014 | 7.4 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 106 | A Man Called Ove2014 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 107 | The Netanyahus2021 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 108 | The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 114 | Scaffolding2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 116 | Station Eleven2014 | 7.4 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 120 | All the Light We Cannot See2014 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 123 | Where the Crawdads Sing Deluxe Edition2019 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 124 | The Blacktongue Thief2021 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 125 | Jurassic Park : [novel]1991 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |