Year-End Lists

Auraist: The Best-Written Books of 2023, "the year's most stylishly written publications"

Literary fiction

• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• Chrysalis
  Anna Metcalfe
• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
  Lorrie Moore
• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• Kit
  Megan Barker
• Open Throat
  Henry Hoke
• Prophet Song
  Paul Lynch
• Caret
  Adam Mars-Jones
• The Variations
  Patrick Langley
• America Fantastica
  Tim O'Brien
• Never Was
  H. Gareth Gavin
• All the Colour in the World
  C.S. Richardson
• Kick the Latch
  Kathryn Scanlan
• Pay As You Go
  Eskor David Johnson
• Moonrise Over New Jessup
  Jamila Minnicks
• Orbital
  Samantha Harvey
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres

Nonfiction

• Ways of Life

  Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists
  Laura Freeman
• Wish I Was Here

  An Anti-Memoir
  M. John Harrison
• Natural Light

  The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science
  Julian Bell
• Orwell

  The New Life
  D.J. Taylor
• Come Back in September

  A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
  Darryl Pinckney
• Retroland

  A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction
  Peter Kemp
• Party Lines

  Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
  Ed Gillett
• Twist

  An American Girl
  Bertei Adele
• The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: ‘Far away from Myself’
  Clinton Heylin
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• Accidental Gods

  On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
  Anna Della Subin
• Taking Flight

  The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
  Lev Parikian
• Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story

  Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
  Daniel Rachel

Speculative fiction (sci fi, fantasy, horror)

• Goliath
  Tochi Onyebuchi
• Spear
  Nicola Griffith
• Spear
  Nicola Griffith
• The Genesis of Misery
  Neon Yang
• Red Smoking Mirror
  Nick Hunt
• Pink Slime
  Fernanda Trías
• The Circumference of the World
  Lavie Tidhar
• Girlfriend on Mars
  Deborah Willis

Crime fiction/thrillers

• Code of the Hills
  Chris Offutt
• Kala
  Colin Walsh
• My Men
  Victoria Kielland
• Flags on the Bayou
  James Lee Burke
• Everybody Knows
  Jordan Harper