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

Big Swiss - Jen Beagin

The Best Books of 2023 Town & Country

The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen

Favorite Books of 2023 Barack Obama

The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright

The 45 Best New Books of 2023 Harper’s Bazaar

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

The 12 Best Books of 2023 Nerdette

The Laughter - Sonora Jha

Best Books of 2023 Shelf Awareness

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Best Books of 2023 Passerby

A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan

10 Best Books of 2023 California Review of Books

A Living Remedy - Nicole Chung

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Marriage Question - Clare Carlisle

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton

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

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Vanity Fair

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

The Best Novels of 2023 Paste

Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Dan Kois

Bellies - Nicola Dinan

Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 Them