Year-End Lists

Harper’s Bazaar: The 45 Best New Books of 2023, organized by release date

[see also 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• The Survivalists
  Kashana Cauley
• Maame
  Jessica George
• Central Places
  Delia Cai
• Wolfish

  Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
  Erica Berry
• I Have Some Questions for You
  Rebecca Makkai
• Saving Time

  Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
  Jenny Odell
• Pineapple Street
  Jenny Jackson
• Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
  Richard Mirabella
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• Romantic Comedy
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• A Living Remedy
  Nicole Chung
• Happy Place
  Emily Henry
• Homebodies
  Tembe Denton-Hurst
• Wildflower
  Aurora James
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• Yellowface
  R.F. Kuang
• The Late Americans
  Brandon Taylor
• Girls and their Horses
  Eliza Jane Brazier
• The Mythmakers
  Keziah Weir
• Adult Drama

  And Other Essays
  Natalie Beach
• The Light Room

  On Art and Care
  Kate Zambreno
• Crook Manifesto
  Colson Whitehead
• Family Lore
  Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• Learned by Heart
  Emma Donoghue
• The Vaster Wilds
  Lauren Groff
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• The Wren, the Wren
  Anne Enright
• Bright Young Women
  Jessica Knoll
• Wellness
  Nathan Hill
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• The Museum of Failures
  Thrity Umrigar
• A Haunting on the Hill
  Elizabeth Hand
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Roman Stories
  Jhumpa Lahiri
• Black Friend

  Essays
  Ziwe
• Let Us Descend
  Jesmyn Ward
• The Woman in Me
  Britney Spears
• The Berry Pickers
  Amanda Peters
• Class

  A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
  Stephanie Land
• The Vulnerables
  Sigrid Nunez
• My Name is Barbra
  Barbra Streisand
• Day
  Michael Cunningham
• Endgame

  Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
  Omid Scobie
• Songs on Endless Repeat

  Essays and Outtakes
  Anthony Veasna So