Year-End Lists

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2023

Fiction

• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• All the Sinners Bleed
  S.A. Cosby
• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Bright Young Women
  Jessica Knoll
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• The Covenant of Water
  Abraham Verghese
• Crook Manifesto
  Colson Whitehead
• The Deluge
  Stephen Markley
• Eastbound
  Maylis de Kerangal
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
  Heather Fawcett
• Enter Ghost
  Isabella Hammad
• Forbidden Notebook
  Alba de Céspedes
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• From From
  Monica Youn
• A Guest in the House
  Emily Carroll
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• A History of Burning
  Janika Oza
• Holly
  Stephen King
• A House for Alice
  Diana Evans
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe
  Emma Törzs
• Kairos
  Jenny Erpenbeck
• Kantika
  Elizabeth Graver
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• Lone Women
  Victor LaValle
• Monica
  Daniel Clowes
• The Most Secret Memory of Men
  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
• The New Naturals
  Gabriel Bump
• North Woods
  Daniel Mason
• Not Even the Dead
  Juan Goméz Barcena
• The Nursery
  Szilvia Molnar
• Our Share of Night
  Mariana Enriquez
• Pineapple Street
  Jenny Jackson
• The Reformatory
  Tananarive Due
• The Saint of Bright Doors
  Vajra Chandrasekera
• Same Bed Different Dreams
  Ed Park
• Take What You Need
  Idra Novey
• This Other Eden
  Paul Harding
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett
• The Unsettled
  Ayana Mathis
• Victory City
  Salman Rushdie
• We Could Be So Good
  Cat Sebastian
• Western Lane
  Chetna Maroo
• Witness
  Jamel Brinkley
• Y/N
  Esther Yi
• Yellowface
  R.F. Kuang

Nonfiction

• The 272

  The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
  Rachel L. Swarns
• Anansi's Gold

  The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
  Yepoka Yeebo
• Battle of Ink and Ice

  A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
  Darrell Hartman
• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

  A Journey Through the Deep State
  Kerry Howley
• Built from the Fire

  The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
  Victor Luckerson
• Cobalt Red

  How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
  Siddharth Kara
• Crossings

  How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
  Ben Goldfarb
• Daughter of the Dragon

  Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
  Yunte Huang
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• Easily Slip into Another World

  A Life in Music
  Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards
• The Exceptions

  Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
  Kate Zernike
• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant
• The Great Escape

  A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
  Saket Soni
• The Half Known Life

  In Search of Paradise
  Pico Iyer
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Humanly Possible

  Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
  Sarah Bakewell
• Judgment at Tokyo

  World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
  Gary J. Bass
• King

  A Life
  Jonathan Eig
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

  American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
  Tim Alberta
• The Land of Hope and Fear

  Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
  Isabel Kershner
• Liliana's Invincible Summer

  A Sister's Search for Justice
  Cristina Rivera Garza
• Lives of the Wives

  Five Literary Marriages
  Carmela Ciuraru
• A Living Remedy
  Nicole Chung
• Master Slave Husband Wife

  An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
  Ilyon Woo
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• My Name is Barbra
  Barbra Streisand
• The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

  A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
  David Waldstreicher
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• Oscar Wars

  A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
  Michael Schulman
• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar
• Pageboy
  Elliot Page
• Poverty, by America
  Matthew Desmond
• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  Ned Blackhawk
• The Rigor of Angels

  Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
  William Egginton
• Schoenberg

  Why He Matters
  Harvey Sachs
• Sink
  Joseph Earl Thomas
• The Slip

  The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
  Prudence Peiffer
• Some People Need Killing

  A Memoir of Murder in My Country
  Patricia Evangelista
• Spoken Word

  A Cultural History
  Joshua Bennett
• A Thread of Violence

  A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
  Mark O'Connell
• Time's Echo

  The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
  Jeremy Eichler
• The Undertow

  Scenes from a Slow Civil War
  Jeff Sharlet
• Unscripted

  The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
  James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
• Up Home

  One Girl's Journey
  Ruth J. Simmons
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

  A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
  Tahir Hamut Izgil
• What an Owl Knows

  The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
  Jennifer Ackerman
• Wifedom

  Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
  Anna Funder
• You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live

  Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
  Paul Kix