Year-End Lists

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

Books
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

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

The Wager - David Grann

Town & Country The Best Books of 2023

The Country of the Blind - Andrew Leland

Lit Hub The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2023

Yellowface - R.F. Kuang

Harper’s Bazaar The 45 Best New Books of 2023

Loot - Tania James

WBEZ The 12 Best Books of 2023

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Shelf Awareness 2023 Best Books of the Year

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Passerby Best Books of 2023

A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2023

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2023

Big Swiss - Jen Beagin

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Constance Grady: Vox The Very Best Books of 2023

The Fraud - Zadie Smith

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

Small Worlds - Caleb Azumah Nelson

Boston Globe Books We Loved in 2023

Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal

Vanity Fair Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023

Yellowface - R.F. Kuang

Paste The Best Novels of 2023

Motherland - Paula Ramón

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune 10 Best Books for 2023

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Annabel Gutterman: Time The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023

Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista

Annabel Gutterman: Time The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023

The Wager - David Grann

Maureen Corrigan: NPR Top 10 Books of 2023