Year-End Lists

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

Books
Whalefall - Daniel Kraus

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

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

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

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

The Fraud - Zadie Smith

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

Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton

Books We Loved in 2023 Boston Globe

The Slip - Prudence Peiffer

Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023 Vanity Fair

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

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

The Wager - David Grann

Top 10 Books of 2023 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Dan Kois

Open Throat - Henry Hoke

Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 Them

Absolution - Alice McDermott

Five Best Fiction Works of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

Five Best Novels of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Hillary Kelly

Lone Women - Victor LaValle

Five Best Novels of 2023 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

Doppelganger - Naomi Klein

The Best Books of 2023 Vulture: Maris Kreizman

The Country of the Blind - Andrew Leland

The Best Books of 2023 Atlantic

Fire Weather - John Vaillant

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate: Laura Miller