Year-End Lists

Laura Miller: The 10 Best Books of 2023, as published by Slate

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• Anansi's Gold

  The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
  Yepoka Yeebo
• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• The House of Doors
  Tan Twang Eng
• A Thread of Violence

  A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
  Mark O'Connell