The 100 Greatest Books of 2023

This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

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The Greatest Books, 100 Books

This list is aggregated from every best of list we could find for 2023 using our same tried and true weighted algorithm.

Since this is an aggregation of many 2023 specific lists, I am using a voter count of 150

This list was originally published in 2023 and was added to this site 12 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
5614 Biography Of X Catherine Lacey 2023 American English
5521 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5990 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
7041 Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 American English
7143 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
9986 Lone Women Victor LaValle 2023 American English
3166 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
6826 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
5609 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
8549 Witness Jamel Brinkley 2023 American English
5380 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
7579 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
8586 A Fever In The Heartland Timothy Egan 2023 American English
10111 The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff 2023 American English
10134 Land Of Milk And Honey C Pam Zhang 2023 Unknown English
8625 The Fraud Zadie Smith 2023 British English
10162 The Slip Prudence Peiffer 2023 Unknown English
10170 Waiting To Be Arrested At Night Tahir Hamut Izgil 2023 Unknown Uyghur
5677 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
5670 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
10200 I Have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai 2023 American English
10206 The New Naturals Gabriel Bump 2023 American English
10213 Same Bed Different Dreams Ed Park 2023 Unknown Unknown
8210 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8728 All The Sinners Bleed S. A. Cosby 2023 American English
10272 Whalefall Daniel Kraus 2023 American English
10276 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
4500 North Woods Daniel Mason 2023 American English
7791 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
10352 How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair 2023 Unknown English
8798 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8816 Fire Weather John Vaillant 2023 Canadian English
8542 A Thread Of Violence Mark O'Connell 2023 Unknown English
8836 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
10400 Crossings Ben Goldfarb 2023 American English
10411 Daughter Of The Dragon Yunte Huang 2023 Unknown English
8869 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 American English
8886 Blackouts Justin Torres 2023 Unknown English
7674 Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton 2023 New Zealand English
7870 Wifedom Anna Funder 2023 Unknown English
10483 The Guest Emma Cline 2023 American English
8937 Family Lore Elizabeth Acevedo 2023 Unknown English
7650 Victory City Salman Rushdie 2023 British English
7128 Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano 2023 American English
7569 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
10511 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 Unknown English
8963 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
10520 Pageboy Elliot Page 2023 Canadian English
8649 Liliana's Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza 2023 Mexican Spanish
10535 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 American English
7933 The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory Tim Alberta 2024 Unknown English
10548 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10551 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
10554 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
10557 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
10561 Y N Esther Yi 2023 Unknown English
6842 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
9021 Anansi’s Gold Yepoka Yeebo 2023 Unknown English
7547 Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad 2023 British English
10575 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
3503 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
10583 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
10594 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
10598 Lives Of The Wives Carmela Ciuraru 2023 Unknown English
9038 After The Funeral And Other Stories Tessa Hadley 2023 British English
10609 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
6798 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
10613 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
9050 Old God's Time Sebastian Barry 2023 Irish English
10622 Prophet Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché 2023 Unknown English
2086 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
10625 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian
7664 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
8570 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
6202 Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2023 Canadian English
9069 This Other Eden Paul Harding 2023 American English
10640 Our Migrant Souls Héctor Tobar 2023 American English
10643 Western Lane Chetna Maroo 2023 Unknown English
10646 Pineapple Street Jenny Jackson 2023 Unknown English
10649 From From Monica Youn 2023 American English
10651 A Living Remedy Nicole Chung 2023 American English
10654 My Name Is Barbra Barbra Streisand 2023 American English
10655 Unscripted James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams 2023 Unknown English
10657 What An Owl Knows Jennifer Ackerman 2023 Unknown English
10660 The Possibility Of Life Jaime Green 2023 Unknown English
9085 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
10666 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10668 Open Throat Henry Hoke 2023 Unknown English
10671 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10673 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
8007 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
7906 Small Mercies Dennis Lehane 2023 American English
9087 Happy Place Emily Henry 2023 American English
10681 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10683 The Dress Diary Kate Strasdin 2023 Unknown English
9709 Wait Five Minutes Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins 2019 Unknown English
10688 Burn It Down Maureen Ryan 2023 Unknown English
9264 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
10691 The Exceptions Kate Zernike 2023 American English