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
17173 Fat Talk Virginia Sole-Smith 2023 Unknown English
17173 Horse Barbie Geena Rocero 2023 Unknown English
17173 Hostile Takeover Christina C. Jones 2023 Unknown English
17173 Parachute Kids Betty C. Tang 2023 Unknown English
17173 Rest Easy Ximena Vengoechea 2023 Unknown English
17173 Role Playing Cathy Yardley 2023 Unknown English
17173 Skin Thief Suzan Palumbo 2023 Unknown English
14986 The Fragile Threads Of Power V. E. Schwab 2023 American English
17173 The Secret Book Of Flora Lea Patti Callahan Henry 2023 American English
17173 The Shadow Cabinet Juno Dawson 2023 British English
17173 Vampires Of El Norte Isabel Cañas 2023 Unknown English
17173 Day Michael Cunningham American Unknown
17173 Rouge Mona Awad 2023 Canadian English
14986 How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang 2020 American English
17173 My Murder Katie Williams 2023 Unknown English
17173 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
15782 The Best Of Everything Rona Jaffe 1958 American English
17173 To Name The Bigger Lie Sarah Viren 2023 Unknown English
14986 The Latecomer Jean Hanff Korelitz 2022 American English
17173 Beware The Woman Megan Abbott 2023 American English
17173 The Stolen Coast Dwyer Murphy 2023 Unknown English
17173 Strega Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel 2020 Unknown Swedish
17173 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17173 The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing Melissa Banks 1999 Unknown English
17173 The Glow Jessie Gaynor 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Bathysphere Book Brad Fox 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17173 Was It For This Hannah Sullivan 2023 British English
17173 The In Betweens Davon Loeb 2023 Unknown English
17173 I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times Taylor Byas 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Best Possible Experience Nishanth Injam 2023 Unknown English
17173 Company Shannon Sanders 2023 Unknown English
17173 Toy Fights Don Paterson 2023 British English
17173 Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Molly McGhee 2023 Unknown English
17173 A Country You Can Leave Asale Angel-Ajani 2023 Unknown English
14986 Julia Sandra Newman Unknown Unknown
14986 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17173 Mild Vertigo Mieko Kanai 1997 Japanese Japanese
17173 Wednesday’s Child Yiyun Li 2013 American English
14986 Spare Prince Harry 2023 British English
17173 When Crack Was King Donovan X. Ramsey 2023 American English
14986 Tremor Teju Cole 2023 American Unknown
17173 To Free The Captives Tracy K. Smith 2023 Unknown English
17173 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2021 French English
17173 Idlewild James Frankie Thomas 2023 American English
17173 Erotic Vagrancy Roger Lewis Unknown English
17173 Arrangements In Blue Amy Key 2023 Unknown English
14986 Normal Women Philippa Gregory 2023 British English
14986 Held Anne Michaels 2023 Unknown English
17173 Embrace Fearlessly The Burning World Barry Lopez 2022 American English
17173 The Hero Of This Story Elizabeth McCracken 2016 American English
17173 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17173 All Sorts Of Lives Claire Harman 2023 Unknown English
17173 Games And Rituals Katherine Heiny 2023 American English
17173 Why Women Grow Alice Vincent 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Nirvana Express Mick Brown 2023 Unknown English
17173 Being Henry Henry Winkler 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Seventh Son Sebastian Faulks 2023 British English
17173 The Stirrings Catherine Taylor Unknown English
17173 Reach For The Stars Michael Cragg 2023 Unknown English
14986 Cheri Jo Ann Beard 2023 Unknown English
17173 Weirdo Sara Pascoe 2023 British English
17173 Fear Is Just A Word Azam Ahmed 2023 Unknown English
12201 The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone 2000 Italian Italian
10496 The House Of Doors Tan Twang Eng 2023 Malaysian English
17173 Democracy Awakening Heather Cox Richardson 2023 American English
17173 In Memoriam Alice Winn 2023 Unknown English
17173 Age Of Vice Deepti Kapoor 2023 Unknown English
17173 Family Meal Bryan Washington 2023 American English
14986 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
17173 American Gun Cameron McWhirter 2023 Unknown English
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
17173 The World And All That It Holds Aleksandar Hemon 2023 Bosnian English
17173 Barbara Isn’t Dying Alina Bronsky 2021 German German
17173 Confidence Rafael Frumkin 2023 Unknown English
17173 Dayswork Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel 2023 Unknown English
17173 Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain 2023 Unknown English
17173 A Haunting On The Hill Elizabeth Hand 2023 American English
17173 I Will Greet The Sun Again Khashayar J. Khabushani 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Madstone Elizabeth Crook 2023 American English
17173 My Father’s House Joseph O’Connor 2023 Irish English
17173 My Name Is Iris Brando Skyhorse 2023 American English
17173 No One Prayed Over Their Graves Khaled Khalifa 2019 Syrian Arabic
17173 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Sunset Crowd Karin Tanabe 2023 Unknown English
17173 Up With The Sun Thomas Mallon 2023 American English
17173 Vintage Contemporaries Dan Kois 2014 Unknown English
14986 Affinities Brian Dillon 2023 British English
17173 Althea Sally H. Jacobs 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Big Break Ben Terris 2023 Unknown English
17173 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17173 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17173 The Critic’s Daughter Priscilla Gilman 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17173 Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You Lucinda Williams 2023 American English
17173 George Frieda Hughes 2023 British English
17173 Gun Country Andrew C. McKevitt 2023 Unknown English
17173 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17173 Leg Greg Marshall 2023 Unknown English
17173 Lou Reed Will Hermes 2023 Unknown English
17173 Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2023 Unknown English
17173 Of Time And Turtles Sy Montgomery 2023 American English
17173 The People’s Hospital Ricardo Nuila 2023 Unknown English
17173 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Red Hotel Alan Philps 2019 Unknown English
17173 Saying It Loud Mark Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff 2023 American English
17173 Starkweather Harry N. MacLean 2023 Unknown English
17173 Ufo Garrett M. Graff 2023 Unknown English
17173 Under The Eye Of Power Colin Dickey 2023 American English
17173 The Upside Down World Benjamin Moser Unknown Unknown
14986 We Were Once A Family Roxanna Asgarian 2023 Unknown English
17173 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17173 Without Children Peggy O’Donnell Heffington 2023 Unknown English
17173 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
10496 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
9051 The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane 2022 Australian English
17173 Good Girls Hadley Freeman 2023 British English
17173 The Lost Wife Susanna Moore 2023 American English
17173 An Ordinary Man Richard Norton Smith 2023 Unknown English