Year-End Lists

Esquire: The 20 Best Books of 2023

1. Chain-Gang All-Stars
   Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
2. The Rediscovery of America

   Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
   Ned Blackhawk
3. A Living Remedy
   Nicole Chung
4. Monsters

   A Fan's Dilemma
   Claire Dederer
5. Poverty, by America
   Matthew Desmond
6. The Wager

   A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
   David Grann
7. The Possibility of Life

   Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
   Jaime Green
8. The Vaster Wilds
   Lauren Groff
9. Doppelganger

   A Trip into the Mirror World
   Naomi Klein
10. Yellowface
    R.F. Kuang
11. Biography of X
    Catherine Lacey
12. Lone Women
    Victor LaValle
13. Wednesday's Child
    Yiyun Li
14. Absolution
    Alice McDermott
15. Wrong Way
    Joanne McNeil
16. America Fantastica
    Tim O'Brien
17. Saving Time

    Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
    Jenny Odell
18. The Late Americans
    Brandon Taylor
19. Crook Manifesto
    Colson Whitehead
20. Land of Milk and Honey
    C Pam Zhang