Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Best Books of 2023 Shelf Awareness

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Best Books of 2023 Passerby

A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan

10 Best Books of 2023 California Review of Books

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

Forgive Me Not - Jennifer Baker

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

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

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

The Guest - Emma Cline

The Best Books of 2023 Vogue

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieira Junior

The Year 2023 in 10 Books Verso Books

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism - Martin Wolf

The Best of Books 2023 Foreign Affairs

Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton

Books We Loved in 2023 Boston Globe

Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang

Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Vanity Fair

Lone Women - Victor LaValle

The Best Novels of 2023 Paste

Motherland - Paula Ramón

10 Best Books for 2023 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Top 10 Books of 2023 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Mobility - Lydia Kiesling

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Dan Kois

Blackouts - Justin Torres

Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 Them

Wednesday's Child - Yiyun Li

Five Best Fiction Works of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick

Mild Vertigo - Mieko Kanai

Five Best Novels of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Hillary Kelly

Loot - Tania James

Five Best Novels of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

Doppelganger - Naomi Klein

The Best Books of 2023 Vulture: Maris Kreizman

The Iliad - Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

The Best Books of 2023 Atlantic

The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Laura Miller