In no particular order:
- The Truth and Other Lies, Sascha Grango – dark thriller
- Folk, Zoë Gilbert – dark, immersive folklore
- The Drive, Tyler Keevil – road trip
- The Loney, Andrew Hurley – atmospheric, suspenseful
- Justine, Alice Thompson – sensual, gothic tale
- The Overstory, Richard Powers – the biological story of a tree and the interconnected social story of people
- Women Talking, Miriam Toews – harrowing fact-based story set in Mennonite colony
- Cat Person, Kristen Roupenian – when dates go wrong
- Come, Let us Sing Anyway, Leone Ross – elegantly erotic and witty magic realism populated by drag queens, threesomes and headless schoolgirls
- Her Body & Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado – gothic magic realism about women and patriarchy