Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023

• After the Funeral and Other Stories
  Tessa Hadley
• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• Age of Vice
  Deepti Kapoor
• Barbara Isn’t Dying
  Alina Bronsky (translated by Tim Mohr)
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Confidence
  Rafael Frumkin
• Crook Manifesto
  Colson Whitehead
• Dayswork
  Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel
• Devil Makes Three
  Ben Fountain
• Enter Ghost
  Isabella Hammad
• Family Meal
  Bryan Washington
• Family Lore
  Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Faraway World
  Patricia Engel
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• A Haunting on the Hill
  Elizabeth Hand
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• The House of Doors
  Tan Twang Eng
• The House on Via Gemito
  Domenico Starnone
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• I Have Some Questions for You
  Rebecca Makkai
• I Will Greet the Sun Again
  Khashayar J. Khabushani
• In Memoriam
  Alice Winn
• Let Us Descend
  Jesmyn Ward
• Lone Women
  Victor LaValle
• The Madstone
  Elizabeth Crook
• The Most Secret Memory of Men
  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
• My Father's House
  Joseph O'Connor
• My Name Is Iris
  Brando Skyhorse
• The New Naturals
  Gabriel Bump
• No One Prayed Over Their Graves
  Khaled Khalifa
• Old God's Time
  Sebastian Barry
• Open Throat
  Henry Hoke
• Our Share of Night
  Mariana Enriquez
• The Reformatory
  Tananarive Due
• Same Bed Different Dreams
  Ed Park
• Small Mercies
  Dennis Lehane
• Straw Dogs of the Universe
  Ye Chun
• The Sunset Crowd
  Karin Tanabe
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett
• Tremor
  Teju Cole
• The Unsettled
  Ayana Mathis
• Up With the Sun
  Thomas Mallon
• Vengeance Is Mine
  Marie NDiaye
• Victory City
  Salman Rushdie
• Vintage Contemporaries
  Dan Kois
• The Wren, the Wren
  Anne Enright
• The World and All That It Holds
  Aleksandar Hemon