Year-End Lists

Oprah Daily: Best Novels of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021]

1. Happiness Falls
   Angie Kim
2. Absolution
   Alice McDermott
3. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
   James McBride
4. Lucky Dogs
   Helen Schulman
5. The Last Animal
   Ramona Ausubel
6. The Unsettled
   Ayana Mathis
7. Death Valley
   Melissa Broder
8. Age of Vice
   Deepti Kapoor
9. Fireworks Every Night
   Beth Raymer
10. The Fraud
    Zadie Smith

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• All Souls
  Saskia Hamilton
• From From
  Monica Youn
• The Shared World
  Vievee Francis
• suddenly we
  Evie Shockley
• To 2040
  Jorie Graham

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• The Country of the Blind

  A Memoir at the End of Sight
  Andrew Leland
• Flee North

  A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
  Scott Shane
• The MANIAC
  Benjamin Labatut
• My Work
  Olga Ravn
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  Ned Blackhawk
• Same Bed Different Dreams
  Ed Park
• The Talk
  Darrin Bell
• The Wren, the Wren
  Anne Enright

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2023

[see also Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride

Finalists

• Witness
  Jamel Brinkley
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• White Cat, Black Dog
  Kelly Link
• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Let Us Descend
  Jesmyn Ward

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2023

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar

Finalists

• Red Memory

  The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
  Tania Branigan
• Mr. B

  George Balanchine's 20th Century
  Jennifer Homans
• How Not to Kill Yourself

  A portrait of the Suicidal Mind
  Clancy Martin
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Master Slave Husband Wife

  An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
  Ilyon Woo

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver

Shortlist

• Black Butterflies
  Priscilla Morris
• The Marriage Portrait
  Maggie O'Farrell
• Pod
  Laline Paull
• Fire Rush
  Jacqueline Crooks
• Trespasses
  Louise Kennedy

Longlist

• Cursed Bread
  Sophie Mackintosh
• Children of Paradise
  Camilla Grudova
• The Bandit Queens
  Parini Shroff
• Homesick
  Jennifer Croft
• The Dog of the North
  Elizabeth Mckenzie
• Memphis
  Tara M. Stringfellow
• Stone Blind
  Natalie Haynes
• Wandering Souls
  Cecile Pin
• I'm a Fan
  Sheena Patel
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo