The 100 Greatest Books of 2023

This is one of the 759 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 about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
5624 Biography Of X Catherine Lacey 2023 American English
5530 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5933 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
7054 Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 American English
7158 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
10009 Lone Women Victor LaValle 2023 American English
3171 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
5619 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
8568 Witness Jamel Brinkley 2023 American English
5391 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
7595 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
8605 A Fever In The Heartland Timothy Egan 2023 American English
10133 The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff 2023 American English
10156 Land Of Milk And Honey C Pam Zhang 2023 Unknown English
8644 The Fraud Zadie Smith 2023 British English
10186 The Slip Prudence Peiffer 2023 Unknown English
10195 Waiting To Be Arrested At Night Tahir Hamut Izgil 2023 Unknown Uyghur
5688 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
5680 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
10227 I Have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai 2023 American English
10233 The New Naturals Gabriel Bump 2023 American English
10240 Same Bed Different Dreams Ed Park 2023 Unknown Unknown
8227 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8748 All The Sinners Bleed S. A. Cosby 2023 American English
10299 Whalefall Daniel Kraus 2023 American English
10303 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
4507 North Woods Daniel Mason 2023 American English
7706 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
10380 How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair 2023 Unknown English
8818 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8835 Fire Weather John Vaillant 2023 Canadian English
8561 A Thread Of Violence Mark O'Connell 2023 Unknown English
8855 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
10429 Crossings Ben Goldfarb 2023 American English
10440 Daughter Of The Dragon Yunte Huang 2023 Unknown English
8889 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 American English
8906 Blackouts Justin Torres 2023 Unknown English
7690 Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton 2023 New Zealand English
7886 Wifedom Anna Funder 2023 Unknown English
10513 The Guest Emma Cline 2023 American English
8956 Family Lore Elizabeth Acevedo 2023 Unknown English
7666 Victory City Salman Rushdie 2023 British English
7142 Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano 2023 American English
7586 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
10541 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 Unknown English
8982 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
10550 Pageboy Elliot Page 2023 Canadian English
8669 Liliana's Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza 2023 Mexican Spanish
10565 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 American English
7948 The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory Tim Alberta 2024 Unknown English
10578 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10581 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
10584 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
10587 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
10591 Y N Esther Yi 2023 Unknown English
6853 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
9042 Anansi’s Gold Yepoka Yeebo 2023 Unknown English
7564 Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad 2023 British English
10605 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
10613 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
9055 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
10628 Lives Of The Wives Carmela Ciuraru 2023 Unknown English
9061 After The Funeral And Other Stories Tessa Hadley 2023 British English
10639 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
6809 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
10643 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
9073 Old God's Time Sebastian Barry 2023 Irish English
10652 Prophet Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché 2023 Unknown English
1983 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
10655 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian
7680 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
8589 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
6214 Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2023 Canadian English
9092 This Other Eden Paul Harding 2023 American English
10670 Our Migrant Souls Héctor Tobar 2023 American English
10673 Western Lane Chetna Maroo 2023 Unknown English
10676 Pineapple Street Jenny Jackson 2023 Unknown English
10679 From From Monica Youn 2023 American English
10681 A Living Remedy Nicole Chung 2023 American English
10684 My Name Is Barbra Barbra Streisand 2023 American English
10685 Unscripted James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams 2023 Unknown English
10687 What An Owl Knows Jennifer Ackerman 2023 Unknown English
10690 The Possibility Of Life Jaime Green 2023 Unknown English
9108 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
10696 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10698 Open Throat Henry Hoke 2023 Unknown English
10701 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10703 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
8022 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
7922 Small Mercies Dennis Lehane 2023 American English
9110 Happy Place Emily Henry 2023 American English
10711 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10713 The Dress Diary Kate Strasdin 2023 Unknown English
9732 Wait Five Minutes Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins 2019 Unknown English
10718 Burn It Down Maureen Ryan 2023 Unknown English
9286 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
10721 The Exceptions Kate Zernike 2023 American English