Year-End Lists

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

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

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2023

The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

New York Public Library: Top 10 Books for Adults

The Guest - Emma Cline

Financial Times: Best Fiction of 2023

Tom Lake - Ann Patchett

Chicago Public Library: Top 10 Books of 2023

Our Migrant Souls - Héctor Tobar

BookPage: The Best Nonfiction of 2023

Bellies - Nicola Dinan

BookPage: The Best Fiction of 2023

A Living Remedy - Nicole Chung

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2023

The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2023

Blackouts - Justin Torres

National Book Award: Fiction 2023

The Rediscovery of America - Ned Blackhawk

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2023

The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut

Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2023

The Wager - David Grann

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023

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

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

Oprah Daily: Best Novels of 2023

Cuddy - Benjamin Myers

Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2023

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2023

Our Migrant Souls - Héctor Tobar

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2023

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2023

Marzahn, mon amour - Katja Oskamp

Dublin Literary Award: 2023

The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li

PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2023

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

San Francisco Chronicle: Favorite Books of 2022

South to America - Imani Perry

The Stacks Podcast: Traci Thomas: Best Books of 2022

Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi

The Stacks Podcast: Andrew Limbong: Best Books of 2022

Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv

Wired: The 12 Best Books of 2022

Body Work - Melissa Febos

Electric Lit: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

Electric Lit: Favorite Novels of 2022

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2022

The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk

New Yorker: The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022

We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole

New Yorker: The Best Nonfiction of 2022

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta - James Hannaham

Esquire: The Best Books of 2022

The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk

Atlantic: The Best Books of 2022

If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery

BuzzFeed: The Best Books of 2022

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa: The Best Books of 2022

Constructing a Nervous System - Margo Jefferson

BBC Culture: The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022

We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole

Salon: Favorite Books of 2022

Stay True - Hua Hsu

Vanity Fair: 39 Best Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Passerby: Best Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Paste: The Best Novels of 2022

There Are No Accidents - Jessie Singer

Economist: Best Books of 2022

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - Paul Newman

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022

Constructing a Nervous System - Margo Jefferson

Chron: J. Howard Rosier: The Best Books of 2022

The Furrows - Namwali Serpell

Vox: Constance Grady: 16 Best Books of 2022

Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng

People: Top 10 Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Books of 2022

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

Library Journal: Best Literary Fiction of 2022

Time Is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

The Skinny: Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Time: Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022