Year-End Lists

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

Books
In Memoriam - Alice Winn

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

Quietly Hostile - Samantha Irby

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

The Guest - Emma Cline

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Fraud - Zadie Smith

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

The Guest - Emma Cline

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

Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad

Books We Loved in 2023 Boston Globe

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Vanity Fair

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

The Best Novels of 2023 Paste

Whalefall - Daniel Kraus

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

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Top 10 Books of 2023 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Dan Kois

Open Throat - Henry Hoke

Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 Them

Absolution - Alice McDermott

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

How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair

The Best Books of 2023 Atlantic

Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Laura Miller