Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

2023
Brainwyrms - Alison Rumfitt

The Best Novels of 2023 Dazed

A Memoir of My Former Self - Hilary Mantel

The 20 Best Books of 2023 New Statesman

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023 Autostraddle: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano

The Best Books of 2023 Town & Country

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

Favorite Books of 2023 Barack Obama

A Living Remedy - Nicole Chung

The 45 Best New Books of 2023 Harper’s Bazaar

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

The 12 Best Books of 2023 Nerdette

In Memoriam - Alice Winn

Best Books of 2023 Shelf Awareness

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Best Books of 2023 Passerby

Poverty, by America - Matthew Desmond

10 Best Books of 2023 California Review of Books

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

The Guest - Emma Cline

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home - Lorrie Moore

The Best Books of 2023 Vogue

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieira Junior

The Year 2023 in 10 Books Verso Books

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism - Martin Wolf

The Best of Books 2023 Foreign Affairs

Blackouts - Justin Torres

Books We Loved in 2023 Boston Globe

a "Working Life" - Eileen Myles

Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Vanity Fair

Lone Women - Victor LaValle

The Best Novels of 2023 Paste

Whalefall - Daniel Kraus

10 Best Books for 2023 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Top 10 Books of 2023 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Mobility - Lydia Kiesling

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Dan Kois