Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Best Novels of 2023

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

The Top 5 Novels of The Year

• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Terrace Story
  Hilary Leichter
• Forgive Me Not
  Jennifer Baker

Other Favorite Novels

• I Have Some Questions for You
  Rebecca Makkai
• Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
  Molly McGhee
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Holding Pattern
  Jenny Xie
• People Collide
  Isle McElroy
• The Late Americans
  Brandon Taylor
• Yellowface
  R.F. Kuang
• A Quitter's Paradise
  Elysha Chang
• Mrs. S
  K. Patrick
• Sea Change
  Gina Chung
• Where There Was Fire
  John Manuel Arias
• All the Sinners Bleed
  S.A. Cosby
• Moonrise Over New Jessup
  Jamila Minnicks
• Rouge
  Mona Awad
• The Great Reclamation
  Rachel Heng
• We Are a Haunting
  Tyriek White
• Enter Ghost
  Isabella Hammad
• Our Share of Night
  Mariana Enriquez
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey