Year-End Lists

Literary Hub: The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

[see also 43 Favorite Books of 2025 • 38 Favorite Books of 2024 • Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 • Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 • Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 • The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s • The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s • Favorite Books of 2018]

• The Country of the Blind

  A Memoir at the End of Sight
  Andrew Leland
• My Murder
  Katie Williams
• Our Share of Night
  Mariana Enriquez
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• Emergency

  Stories
  Kathleen Alcott
• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Day
  Michael Cunningham
• The Best of Everything
  Rona Jaffe
• The Faraway World
  Patricia Engel
• Phantom Pain Wings
  Kim Hyesoon
• To Name the Bigger Lie

  A Memoir in Two Stories
  Sarah Viren
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• King Leopold's Ghost
  Adam Hochschild
• There Is No Antimemetics Division
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• Tyll
  Daniel Kehlmann
• Rouge
  Mona Awad
• Quicksand
  Nella Larsen
• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
  Lorrie Moore
• The Latecomer
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• Beware the Woman
  Megan Abbott
• The Stolen Coast
  Dwyer Murphy
• The Great Believers
  Rebecca Makkai
• Mobility
  Lydia Kiesling
• The Rachel Incident
  Caroline O'Donoghue
• Strega
  Johanne Lykke Holm
• The Saint of Bright Doors
  Vajra Chandrasekera
• Obra maestra
  Juan Tallón
• We All Want Impossible Things
  Catherine Newman
• Vita Nostra
  Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
• A Tale for the Time Being
  Ruth Ozeki
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett
• Minor Detail
  Adania Shibli
• The Skull

  A Tyrolean Folktale
  Jon Klassen
• The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (1999)
  Melissa Bank
• The Art Thief

  A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
  Michael Finkel
• The Glow
  Jessie Gaynor
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah