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 12 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17010 Fat Talk Virginia Sole-Smith 2023 Unknown English
17010 Horse Barbie Geena Rocero 2023 Unknown English
17010 Hostile Takeover Christina C. Jones 2023 Unknown English
17010 Parachute Kids Betty C. Tang 2023 Unknown English
17010 Rest Easy Ximena Vengoechea 2023 Unknown English
17010 Role Playing Cathy Yardley 2023 Unknown English
17010 Skin Thief Suzan Palumbo 2023 Unknown English
14901 The Fragile Threads Of Power V. E. Schwab 2023 American English
17010 The Secret Book Of Flora Lea Patti Callahan Henry 2023 American English
17010 The Shadow Cabinet Juno Dawson 2023 British English
17010 Vampires Of El Norte Isabel Cañas 2023 Unknown English
17010 Day Michael Cunningham American Unknown
17010 Rouge Mona Awad 2023 Canadian English
14901 How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang 2020 American English
17010 My Murder Katie Williams 2023 Unknown English
17010 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
15647 The Best Of Everything Rona Jaffe 1958 American English
17010 To Name The Bigger Lie Sarah Viren 2023 Unknown English
14901 The Latecomer Jean Hanff Korelitz 2022 American English
17010 Beware The Woman Megan Abbott 2023 American English
17010 The Stolen Coast Dwyer Murphy 2023 Unknown English
17010 Strega Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel 2020 Unknown Swedish
17010 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17010 The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing Melissa Banks 1999 Unknown English
17010 The Glow Jessie Gaynor 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Bathysphere Book Brad Fox 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17010 Was It For This Hannah Sullivan 2023 British English
17010 The In Betweens Davon Loeb 2023 Unknown English
17010 I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times Taylor Byas 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Best Possible Experience Nishanth Injam 2023 Unknown English
17010 Company Shannon Sanders 2023 Unknown English
17010 Toy Fights Don Paterson 2023 British English
17010 Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind Molly McGhee 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Country You Can Leave Asale Angel-Ajani 2023 Unknown English
14901 Julia Sandra Newman Unknown Unknown
14901 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17010 Mild Vertigo Mieko Kanai 1997 Japanese Japanese
17010 Wednesday’s Child Yiyun Li 2013 American English
14901 Spare Prince Harry 2023 British English
17010 When Crack Was King Donovan X. Ramsey 2023 American English
14901 Tremor Teju Cole 2023 American Unknown
17010 To Free The Captives Tracy K. Smith 2023 Unknown English
17010 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2021 French English
17010 Idlewild James Frankie Thomas 2023 American English
17010 Erotic Vagrancy Roger Lewis Unknown English
17010 Arrangements In Blue Amy Key 2023 Unknown English
14901 Normal Women Philippa Gregory 2023 British English
14901 Held Anne Michaels 2023 Unknown English
17010 Embrace Fearlessly The Burning World Barry Lopez 2022 American English
17010 The Hero Of This Story Elizabeth McCracken 2016 American English
17010 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17010 All Sorts Of Lives Claire Harman 2023 Unknown English
17010 Games And Rituals Katherine Heiny 2023 American English
17010 Why Women Grow Alice Vincent 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Nirvana Express Mick Brown 2023 Unknown English
17010 Being Henry Henry Winkler 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Seventh Son Sebastian Faulks 2023 British English
17010 The Stirrings Catherine Taylor Unknown English
17010 Reach For The Stars Michael Cragg 2023 Unknown English
14901 Cheri Jo Ann Beard 2023 Unknown English
17010 Weirdo Sara Pascoe 2023 British English
17010 Fear Is Just A Word Azam Ahmed 2023 Unknown English
12173 The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone 2000 Italian Italian
10467 The House Of Doors Tan Twang Eng 2023 Malaysian English
17010 Democracy Awakening Heather Cox Richardson 2023 American English
17010 In Memoriam Alice Winn 2023 Unknown English
17010 Age Of Vice Deepti Kapoor 2023 Unknown English
17010 Family Meal Bryan Washington 2023 American English
14901 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
17010 American Gun Cameron McWhirter 2023 Unknown English
14740 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
17010 The World And All That It Holds Aleksandar Hemon 2023 Bosnian English
17010 Barbara Isn’t Dying Alina Bronsky 2021 German German
17010 Confidence Rafael Frumkin 2023 Unknown English
17010 Dayswork Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel 2023 Unknown English
17010 Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Haunting On The Hill Elizabeth Hand 2023 American English
17010 I Will Greet The Sun Again Khashayar J. Khabushani 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Madstone Elizabeth Crook 2023 American English
17010 My Father’s House Joseph O’Connor 2023 Irish English
17010 My Name Is Iris Brando Skyhorse 2023 American English
17010 No One Prayed Over Their Graves Khaled Khalifa 2019 Syrian Arabic
17010 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Sunset Crowd Karin Tanabe 2023 Unknown English
17010 Up With The Sun Thomas Mallon 2023 American English
17010 Vintage Contemporaries Dan Kois 2014 Unknown English
14901 Affinities Brian Dillon 2023 British English
17010 Althea Sally H. Jacobs 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Big Break Ben Terris 2023 Unknown English
17010 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17010 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Critic’s Daughter Priscilla Gilman 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17010 Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You Lucinda Williams 2023 American English
17010 George Frieda Hughes 2023 British English
17010 Gun Country Andrew C. McKevitt 2023 Unknown English
17010 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17010 Leg Greg Marshall 2023 Unknown English
17010 Lou Reed Will Hermes 2023 Unknown English
17010 Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2023 Unknown English
17010 Of Time And Turtles Sy Montgomery 2023 American English
17010 The People’s Hospital Ricardo Nuila 2023 Unknown English
17010 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Red Hotel Alan Philps 2019 Unknown English
17010 Saying It Loud Mark Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff 2023 American English
17010 Starkweather Harry N. MacLean 2023 Unknown English
17010 Ufo Garrett M. Graff 2023 Unknown English
17010 Under The Eye Of Power Colin Dickey 2023 American English
17010 The Upside Down World Benjamin Moser Unknown Unknown
14901 We Were Once A Family Roxanna Asgarian 2023 Unknown English
17010 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17010 Without Children Peggy O’Donnell Heffington 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
10467 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
9031 The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane 2022 Australian English
17010 Good Girls Hadley Freeman 2023 British English
17010 The Lost Wife Susanna Moore 2023 American English
17010 An Ordinary Man Richard Norton Smith 2023 Unknown English