Ten Favorite Novels About Men by Women

(alphabetically by author)

  • All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  • Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

  • Meeks by Julia Holmes

  • The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes

  • The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

  • Dogs by C. Mallon *

  • How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet

  • Jack by Marilynne Robinson

  • Byobu by Ida Vitale

* Hal, this novel’s protagonist, is an older adolescent—not a child, though.

— June 29, 2026


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