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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | The Secret Life Of Sunflowers2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 127 | The Beekeeper of Aleppo2019 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 128 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 129 | The Winners2023 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 131 | Hamnet2020 | 7.4 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 133 | Wool2020 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 134 | Oryx and Crake2004 | 7.3 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 143 | Dengue Boy2025 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 144 | Frankissstein2019 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 145 | Fredrik Backman My Friends (a Novel)2022 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 150 | The School for Good Mothers2022 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 152 | We Used to Live Here2025 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 154 | Ducks, Newburyport2019 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 160 | The Bass Rock2021 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 165 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize2024 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 170 | The Library at Mount Char2015 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 175 | City of Blades2016 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 181 | The Shining1978 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 189 | Streets Of Laredo1993 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 195 | You Dreamed of Empires2024 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 199 | The Fall of Hyperion2026 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 201 | The Signature of All Things2013 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 205 | Galatea2013 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 206 | The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick2025 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 211 | Before I Let Go2022 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 214 | Meadowlands2022 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 215 | The Ascended2026 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 228 | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous2019 | 7.2 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 231 | Familiaris2025 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 232 | The Bluest Eye1993 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 235 | Perfection2025 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 239 | Perfection2025 | 7.1 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 240 | Our Evenings2024 | 7.1 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 246 | The Sentence2021 | 7.1 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 256 | Normal People2019 | 7.1 | 6 | Mixed | |
| 257 | A Single Man2013 | 7.1 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 263 | Golden Son2015 | 7.1 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 270 | Demon Copperhead2022 | 7.1 | 3 | Divisive | |
| 272 | The Candy House2022 | 7.1 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 280 | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow2022 | 7.0 | 4 | Divisive | |
| 282 | Daughter of Egypt2026 | 7.0 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 286 | The Midnight Library2020 | 7.0 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 290 | Flesh2025 | 7.0 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 295 | The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny2025 | 7.0 | 3 | Divisive | |
| 300 | The Institute2019 | 6.9 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 302 | Fahrenheit 4511981 | 6.9 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 304 | The Witch2026 | 6.9 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 311 | If It Bleeds2021 | 6.9 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 314 | The Midnight Library2020 | 6.9 | 3 | Divisive | |
| 322 | The Someday Garden2026 | 6.8 | 1 | Too few to say |