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