The Greatest Books of 2023 - Honorable Mention

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This is honorable mention lists of greatest books of 2023. The original list of the top 100 is here: https://thegreatestbooks.org/admin/lists/1041. This list are the books ranked 101 and after.

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

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
17152 Humanly Possible Sarah Bakewell 2023 British English
17152 Ink Blood Sister Scribe Emma Törzs 2023 American English
9527 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia Of Faeries Heather Fawcett 2023 Canadian English
14985 Holly Stephen King 2023 American English
17152 The Great Escape Saket Soni 2023 Unknown English
17152 Not Even The Dead Juan Gómez Bárcena 2023 Spanish Spanish
14493 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
17152 Bright Young Women Jessica Knoll 2023 Unknown English
17152 A House For Alice Diana Evans 2023 British English
14985 The Deluge Stephen Markley 2023 Unknown English
14985 Monica Daniel Clowes 2023 American English
17152 A Guest In The House Emily Carroll 2023 Canadian English
17152 Kantika Elizabeth Graver 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Nursery Szilvia Molnar 2023 Unknown English
17152 We Could Be So Good Cat Sebastian 2023 Unknown English
17152 Battle Of Ink And Ice Darrell Hartman 2023 Unknown English
14493 Cobalt Red Siddharth Kara 2023 Unknown English
17152 Easily Slip Into Another World Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Land Of Hope And Fear Isabel Kershner 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher 2023 Unknown English
14985 Oscar Wars Michael Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17152 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17152 Sink Joseph Earl Thomas 2023 Unknown English
17152 Spoken Word Joshua Bennett 2023 Unknown English
17152 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Undertow Jeff Sharlet 2023 American English
17152 Up Home Ruth J. Simmons 2023 Unknown English
17152 You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live Paul Kix 2023 Unknown English
14232 Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward 2023 American English
17152 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
14985 The Road To Roswell Connie Willis 2023 American English
14985 Red Memory Tania Branigan 2023 Chinese English
8060 Maniac Benjamin Labatut 2023 Chilean Spanish
10731 Big Swiss Jen Beagin 2023 American English
9047 The Rachel Incident Caroline O'Donoghue 2023 Irish English
17152 Mobility Lydia Kiesling 2023 American English
17152 The Skull Jon Klassen 2023 Canadian English
17152 My Men Victoria Kielland 2023 Unknown Norwegian
14985 Absolution Alice McDermott 2023 American English
17152 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Nobleman’s Guide To Seducing A Scoundrel KJ Charles 2023 British English
17152 A Walk In The Woods Nikki Grimes 2023 Unknown English
17152 Dear Mothman Robin Gow 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Prince And The Coyote David Bowles 2023 Unknown English
8948 The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright 2023 Irish English
14985 Tyranny Of The Minority Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt 2024 American English
17152 Blue Skies T. C. Boyle 2023 American English
17152 The Wonder Paradox Jennifer Michael Hecht 2023 American English
17152 The Asking Jane Hirshfield 2023 American English
17152 The Big Myth Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway 2023 Unknown English
17152 Why We Love Baseball Joe Posnanski 2023 American English
14985 A City On Mars Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith 2023 Unknown English
17152 Girlfriend On Mars Deborah Willis 2023 Canadian English
17152 For Blood And Money Nathan Vardi 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Mind Of A Bee Lars Chittka 2022 Unknown English
17152 The Same Dog Robert Aickman 2023 British Unknown
5717 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami 1985 Japanese Japanese
14985 Harold Steven Wright 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Darkness Manifesto Johan Eklöf, Elizabeth DeNoma 2020 Unknown Swedish
17152 Ice Amy Brady 2023 Unknown English
2424 Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer 1997 American English
17152 Your Brain On Art Susan Magsamen 2023 Unknown English
17152 Under Alien Skies Philip Plait 2023 Unknown English
17152 Perfectly Good Food Irene Li, Margaret Li 2023 Unknown English
17152 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17152 The Man From The Future Ananyo Bhattacharya 2021 Unknown English
14985 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
17152 Elixir Theresa Levitt 2023 Unknown English
17152 Building Science Graphics Jen Christiansen 2023 Unknown English
17152 August Blue Deborah Levy 2023 British English
17152 Period Kate Clancy 2023 Unknown English
17152 In The Herbarium Maura C. Flannery 2023 Unknown English
17152 I Feel Love Rachel Nuwer 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
17152 Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann 2023 Unknown English
17152 On Earth As It Is On Television Emily Jane 2023 Unknown English
2679 H Is For Hawk Helen MacDonald 2014 British English
17152 The Patriarchs Angela Saini 2023 British English
17152 Archangel Andrea Barrett 2013 American English
17152 A Second Chance For Yesterday RA Sinn 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Wonder Emma Donoghue 2023 Irish English
17152 The Warped Side Of Our Universe Kip S. Thorne, Lia Halloran 2023 American English
17152 The Terraformers Annalee Newitz 2023 American English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
17152 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17152 Alfie & Me Carl Safina 2023 Unknown English
14453 Behave Robert Sapolsky 2023 American English
13963 This Time Tomorrow Emma Straub 2023 American English
17152 Grace In All Simplicity Chris Quigg, Robert Cahn 2023 Unknown English
17152 Eat, Poop, Die Joe Roman 2023 Unknown English
17152 Wordslut Amanda Montell 2023 American English
14985 Earthlings Sayaka Murata 2023 Japanese Japanese
17152 The Sounds Of Life Karen Bakker 2022 Unknown English
14985 Fairy Tale Stephen King 2023 American English
2107 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 American English
17152 The Myth Of Normal Gabor Maté 2023 Canadian English
17152 A Half Built Garden Ruthanna Emrys 2023 Unknown English
11079 Heaven Mieko Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17152 Astrotopia Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2023 Unknown English
1582 Quicksand Nella Larsen 1928 American English
13941 A Tale For The Time Being Ruth Ozeki 2013 American English
3183 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
8632 We All Want Impossible Things Catherine Newman 2022 American English
17152 King Leopold's Ghost Adam Hochschild 1998 American English
7007 Tyll Daniel Kehlmann 2017 German German
17152 Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko 2007 Ukrainian Russian
14985 Monstrilio Gerardo Sámano Córdova 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Museum Of Failures Thrity Umrigar 2023 American English
17152 Silver Nitrate Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2023 Mexican English
14985 There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm 2020 Unknown English
14985 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 2023 American English
14985 Hijab Butch Blues Lamya H. 2023 Unknown English
7942 Phantom Pain Wings Kim Hye-soon 2019 Korean Korean
17152 A Power Unbound Freya Marske 2023 Unknown English
17152 Alchemy Of A Blackbird Claire McMillan 2023 Unknown English
17152 All The Beauty In The World Patrick Bringley 2023 Unknown English
17152 America The Beautiful? Blythe Roberson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Bellies Nicola Dinan 2023 Unknown English
17152 Bored Gay Werewolf Tony Santorella 2023 Unknown English