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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119 | Normal People2019 | 7.4 | 5 | Consensus | |
| 121 | Hamnet2020 | 7.4 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 123 | Dengue Boy2025 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 124 | Frankissstein2019 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 125 | Fredrik Backman My Friends (a Novel)2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 127 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 131 | The School for Good Mothers2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 133 | We Used to Live Here2025 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 148 | The Library at Mount Char2015 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 153 | A Visit from the Goon Squad2010 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 157 | The Shining1978 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 163 | Streets Of Laredo1993 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 164 | You Dreamed of Empires2024 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 170 | The Fall of Hyperion2026 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 171 | The Signature of All Things2013 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 180 | Meadowlands2022 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 182 | Before I Let Go2022 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 183 | Words of Radiance2014 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 184 | Galatea2013 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 185 | The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick2025 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 186 | The Ascended2026 | 7.3 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 201 | Perfection2025 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 202 | The Bluest Eye1993 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 204 | Perfection2025 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 206 | Familiaris2025 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 207 | Our Evenings2024 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 209 | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous2019 | 7.2 | 4 | Mixed | |
| 212 | The Sentence2021 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 219 | A Single Man2013 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 231 | Demon Copperhead2022 | 7.2 | 3 | Divisive | |
| 232 | The Candy House2022 | 7.2 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 237 | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow2022 | 7.1 | 4 | Divisive | |
| 245 | Flesh2025 | 7.1 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 251 | The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny2025 | 7.0 | 3 | Divisive | |
| 253 | The Institute2019 | 7.0 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 257 | If It Bleeds2021 | 7.0 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 261 | The Midnight Library2020 | 6.9 | 3 | Divisive | |
| 267 | The Someday Garden2026 | 6.9 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 276 | Doctor Sleep2013 | 6.8 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 301 | The God of the Woods2025 | 6.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 308 | Dune Messiah2019 | 6.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 314 | Theo of Golden2025 | 6.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 328 | Yesteryear: A GMA Book Club Pick2026 | 6.3 | 4 | Consensus |