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2023 Books

Esquire: The 20 Best Books of 2023

01 December 2023

Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Esquire: The 20 Best Books of 2023

[see also The Best Books of 2022 • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • The 50 Best Books of 2021 • The Best Books of the 2010s • The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

  1. Chain-Gang All-Stars
    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  2. The Rediscovery of America
    Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
    Ned Blackhawk
  3. A Living Remedy
    Nicole Chung
  4. Monsters
    A Fan's Dilemma
    Claire Dederer
  5. Poverty, by America
    Matthew Desmond
  6. The Wager
    A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    David Grann
  7. The Possibility of Life
    Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
    Jaime Green
  8. The Vaster Wilds
    Lauren Groff
  9. Doppelganger
    A Trip into the Mirror World
    Naomi Klein
  10. Yellowface
    R.F. Kuang
  11. Biography of X
    Catherine Lacey
  12. Lone Women
    Victor LaValle
  13. Wednesday's Child
    Yiyun Li
  14. Absolution
    Alice McDermott
  15. Wrong Way
    Joanne McNeil
  16. America Fantastica
    Tim O'Brien
  17. Saving Time
    Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
    Jenny Odell
  18. The Late Americans
    Brandon Taylor
  19. Crook Manifesto
    Colson Whitehead
  20. Land of Milk and Honey
    C Pam Zhang

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