Year-End Lists

Passerby: Best Books of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Working Girl

   On Selling Art and Selling Sex
   Sophia Giovannitti
2. The Bee Sting
   Paul Murray
3. Molly
   Blake Butler
4. The Guest
   Emma Cline
5. Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
   Claire Donato

honorable mentions

6. Land of Milk and Honey
   C Pam Zhang
7. Big Swiss
   Jen Beagin
8. Down the Drain
   Julia Fox