Year-End Lists

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

2023
Wednesday's Child - Yiyun Li

Five Best Fiction Works of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Five Best Novels of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Hillary Kelly

Loot - Tania James

Five Best Novels of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

Doppelganger - Naomi Klein

The Best Books of 2023 Vulture: Maris Kreizman

Ordinary Notes - Christina Sharpe

The Best Books of 2023 Atlantic

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Laura Miller

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Best Literary Fiction of 2023 Library Journal

Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The 20 Best Books of 2023 Esquire

Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista

The Best Books of 2023 Economist

King - Jonathan Eig

The Best Books of 2023 New Yorker

The Fraud - Zadie Smith

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times

Prophet Song - Paul Lynch

Best Fiction of 2023 The Booker Prize

Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal

100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times

Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang

Best Books of 2023 New York Public Library

Our Strangers - Lydia Davis

Best Fiction of 2023 Financial Times

Our Migrant Souls - Héctor Tobar

Top 10 Books of 2023 Chicago Public Library

Our Migrant Souls - Héctor Tobar

The Best Nonfiction of 2023 BookPage

Blackouts - Justin Torres

The Best Fiction of 2023 BookPage

How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Powell's Books

The Guest - Emma Cline

Best Fiction of 2023 Powell's Books

Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Best Books of 2023 Book Riot

Blackouts - Justin Torres

Fiction 2023 National Book Award

The Rediscovery of America - Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction 2023 National Book Award

The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Washington Post