Year-End Lists

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

2023
Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton

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

Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang

The Best Books of 2023 Town & Country

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

Favorite Books of 2023 Barack Obama

The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright

The 45 Best New Books of 2023 Harper’s Bazaar

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

The 12 Best Books of 2023 Nerdette

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

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

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

Absolution - Alice McDermott

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

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Books We Loved in 2023 Boston Globe

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Vanity Fair

Lone Women - Victor LaValle

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

How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair

Top 10 Books of 2023 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Dan Kois