Year-End Lists

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The Fraud - Zadie Smith

Best Literary Fiction of 2023 Library Journal

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

The 20 Best Books of 2023 Esquire

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory - Tim Alberta

The Best Books of 2023 Economist

King - Jonathan Eig

The Best Books of 2023 New Yorker

The Fraud - Zadie Smith

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times

Prophet Song - Paul Lynch

Best Fiction of 2023 The Booker Prize

All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby

100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times

When Crack Was King - Donovan X. Ramsey

Best Books of 2023 New York Public Library

Our Strangers - Lydia Davis

Best Fiction of 2023 Financial Times

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

Top 10 Books of 2023 Chicago Public Library

The Wager - David Grann

The Best Nonfiction of 2023 BookPage

In Memoriam - Alice Winn

The Best Fiction of 2023 BookPage

Quietly Hostile - Samantha Irby

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Powell's Books

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Best Fiction of 2023 Powell's Books

Yellowface - R.F. Kuang

Best Books of 2023 Book Riot

Blackouts - Justin Torres

Fiction 2023 National Book Award

The Rediscovery of America - Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction 2023 National Book Award

The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut

The 10 Best Books of 2023 Washington Post

A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 Washington Post

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

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 Washington Post

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

Best Novels of 2023 Oprah Daily

Cuddy - Benjamin Myers

Best Fiction of 2023 Goldsmiths Prize

The Country of the Blind - Andrew Leland

10 Best Books of 2023 Publishers Weekly

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Fiction 2023 Kirkus Prize

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