Year-End Lists

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James - Percival Everett

Kirkus Prize Fiction 2024

Doppelganger - Naomi Klein

Women's Prize Non-Fiction 2024

Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan

Women's Prize Fiction 2024

Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu

Dublin Literary Award 2024

Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck

The Booker Prize 2024 International Award

Small Worlds - Caleb Azumah Nelson

Dylan Thomas Prize 2024

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez - Claire Jiménez

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction 2024

Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan

Dazed The Best Novels of 2023

A Memoir of My Former Self - Hilary Mantel

New Statesman The 20 Best Books of 2023

Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld

USA Today Best Books of 2023

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Autostraddle: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023

How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair

Town & Country The Best Books of 2023

The Wager - David Grann

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2023

The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright

Harper’s Bazaar The 45 Best New Books of 2023

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

Nerdette The 12 Best Books of 2023

Whalefall - Daniel Kraus

Shelf Awareness 2023 Best Books of the Year

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Passerby Best Books of 2023

Poverty, by America - Matthew Desmond

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2023

Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H.

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2023

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

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2023

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

Vox: Constance Grady The Very Best Books of 2023

A Memoir of My Former Self - Hilary Mantel

Vogue The Best Books of 2023

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieira Junior

Verso Books The Year 2023 in 10 Books

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism - Martin Wolf

Foreign Affairs The Best of Books 2023

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