The 100 Greatest Books of 2023

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

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
5623 Biography Of X Catherine Lacey 2023 American English
5529 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5932 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
10004 Lone Women Victor LaValle 2023 American English
3172 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
5618 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
8566 Witness Jamel Brinkley 2023 American English
5390 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
7595 The Reformatory Tananarive Due 2023 American English
8603 A Fever In The Heartland Timothy Egan 2023 American English
10129 The Vaster Wilds Lauren Groff 2023 American English
10152 Land Of Milk And Honey C Pam Zhang 2023 Unknown English
8642 The Fraud Zadie Smith 2023 British English
10181 The Slip Prudence Peiffer 2023 Unknown English
10190 Waiting To Be Arrested At Night Tahir Hamut Izgil 2023 Unknown Uyghur
5687 The Saint Of Bright Doors Vajra Chandrasekera 2023 Unknown English
5679 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
10222 I Have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai 2023 American English
10228 The New Naturals Gabriel Bump 2023 American English
10235 Same Bed Different Dreams Ed Park 2023 Unknown Unknown
8226 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8745 All The Sinners Bleed S. A. Cosby 2023 American English
10295 Whalefall Daniel Kraus 2023 American English
10299 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
4506 North Woods Daniel Mason 2023 American English
7706 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
10376 How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair 2023 Unknown English
8815 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8832 Fire Weather John Vaillant 2023 Canadian English
8559 A Thread Of Violence Mark O'Connell 2023 Unknown English
8852 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
10425 Crossings Ben Goldfarb 2023 American English
10436 Daughter Of The Dragon Yunte Huang 2023 Unknown English
8886 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 American English
8903 Blackouts Justin Torres 2023 Unknown English
7690 Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton 2023 New Zealand English
7886 Wifedom Anna Funder 2023 Unknown English
10510 The Guest Emma Cline 2023 American English
8953 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
10538 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 Unknown English
8979 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
10547 Pageboy Elliot Page 2023 Canadian English
8667 Liliana's Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza 2023 Mexican Spanish
10562 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 American English
7948 The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory Tim Alberta 2024 Unknown English
10575 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
10578 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
10581 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
10584 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
10588 Y N Esther Yi 2023 Unknown English
6853 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
9039 Anansi’s Gold Yepoka Yeebo 2023 Unknown English
7564 Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad 2023 British English
10602 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
10610 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
9052 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
10624 Lives Of The Wives Carmela Ciuraru 2023 Unknown English
9058 After The Funeral And Other Stories Tessa Hadley 2023 British English
10636 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
6809 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
10640 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
9070 Old God's Time Sebastian Barry 2023 Irish English
10649 Prophet Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché 2023 Unknown English
1983 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
10652 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian
7680 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
8587 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
6212 Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2023 Canadian English
9089 This Other Eden Paul Harding 2023 American English
10667 Our Migrant Souls Héctor Tobar 2023 American English
10670 Western Lane Chetna Maroo 2023 Unknown English
10673 Pineapple Street Jenny Jackson 2023 Unknown English
10676 From From Monica Youn 2023 American English
10678 A Living Remedy Nicole Chung 2023 American English
10681 My Name Is Barbra Barbra Streisand 2023 American English
10682 Unscripted James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams 2023 Unknown English
10684 What An Owl Knows Jennifer Ackerman 2023 Unknown English
10687 The Possibility Of Life Jaime Green 2023 Unknown English
9105 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
10693 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10695 Open Throat Henry Hoke 2023 Unknown English
10698 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10700 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
8022 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
7922 Small Mercies Dennis Lehane 2023 American English
9107 Happy Place Emily Henry 2023 American English
10708 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10710 The Dress Diary Kate Strasdin 2023 Unknown English
9728 Wait Five Minutes Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins 2019 Unknown English
10715 Burn It Down Maureen Ryan 2023 Unknown English
9283 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
10718 The Exceptions Kate Zernike 2023 American English