Year-End Lists

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2023
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The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

The Best Novels of 2023 Dazed

A Memoir of My Former Self - Hilary Mantel

The 20 Best Books of 2023 New Statesman

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

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

Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead

The Best Books of 2023 Town & Country

The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut

Favorite Books of 2023 Barack Obama

Yellowface - R.F. Kuang

The 45 Best New Books of 2023 Harper’s Bazaar

Loot - Tania James

The 12 Best Books of 2023 Nerdette

The Laughter - Sonora Jha

Best Books of 2023 Shelf Awareness

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Best Books of 2023 Passerby

Poverty, by America - Matthew Desmond

10 Best Books of 2023 California Review of Books

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

Forgive Me Not - Jennifer Baker

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Marriage Question - Clare Carlisle

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano

The Best Books of 2023 Vogue

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieira Junior

The Year 2023 in 10 Books Verso Books

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism - Martin Wolf

The Best of Books 2023 Foreign Affairs

Blackouts - Justin Torres

Books We Loved in 2023 Boston Globe

Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang

Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Vanity Fair

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

The Best Novels of 2023 Paste

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

10 Best Books for 2023 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 Time: Annabel Gutterman

The Wager - David Grann

Top 10 Books of 2023 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Dan Kois

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