Year-End Lists

Constance Grady: The Very Best Books of 2023, as published by Vox, organized by when they were published and alphabetized by the authors' names

[see also 2024 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019]

Second Half of the Year

• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Loved and Missed
  Susie Boyt
• The Last Language
  Jennifer duBois
• The Marriage Question

  George Eliot's Double Life
  Clare Carlisle
• The Upstairs Delicatessen

  On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
  Dwight Garner
• Menewood
  Nicola Griffith
• The Vaster Wilds
  Lauren Groff
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• The End of Drum-Time
  Hanna Pylväinen
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• How I Won a Nobel Prize
  Julius Taranto
• Idlewild
  James Frankie Thomas
• This is Salvaged
  Vauhini Vara

First Half of the Year, Fiction

• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• Vintage Contemporaries
  Dan Kois
• White Cat, Black Dog
  Kelly Link

First Half of the Year, Nonfiction

• The Everlasting Meal Cookbook

  Leftovers A-Z
  Tamar Adler
• All the Beauty in the World

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
  Patrick Bringley
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• My Hijacking

  A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
  Martha Hodes
• Flawless

  Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
  Elise Hu
• Spare
  Prince Harry