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
17008 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Two Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
14901 The End Of Drum Time Hanna Pylväinen 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Deadline Jill Lepore 2023 American English
17008 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 Unknown English
17008 Material World Ed Conway 2023 Unknown English
14901 How I Won A Nobel Prize Julius Taranto 2024 Unknown English
17008 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2022 British English
17008 The Parrot And The Igloo David Lipsky 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Last Language Jennifer duBois 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Upstairs Delicatessen Dwight Garner 2023 American English
17008 Menewood Nicola Griffith 2023 British English
17008 The Heaven And Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
17008 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17008 Bride Of The Tornado James Kennedy Unknown Unknown
17008 Motherland Paula Ramón 2020 Unknown English
17008 The Path To Paradise Sam Wasson 2023 Unknown English
17008 Lucky Dogs Helen Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17008 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
14901 Cuddy Benjamin Myers 2023 British English
17008 An Uneasy Inheritance Polly Toynbee 2023 British English
17008 The Woman In Me Britney Spears 2023 American English
8208 Ordinary Human Failings Megan Nolan 2024 Irish English
17008 Small Worlds Caleb Azumah Nelson 2023 British English
17008 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17008 The Men Can't Be Saved Ben Purkert 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Lookback Window Kyle Dillon Hertz 2023 Unknown English
17008 A "Working Life" Eileen Myles 2023 American English
17008 Sonic Life Thurston Moore 2023 American English
17008 Our Secret Society Tanisha Ford 2023 Unknown English
17008 Bob Dylan Mark Davidson, Parker Fishel 2022 Unknown English
17008 Those We Thought We Knew David Joy 2023 American English
17008 Omar Victor Diop & The Anonymous Project, Being There Omar Victor Diop, Lee Shulman 2023 Unknown French
17008 Traffic Ben Smith 2023 Unknown English
17008 A Memoir Of My Former Self Hilary Mantel 2023 British English
17008 What Is A Doctor? Dr Phil Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17008 A Northern Wind David Kynaston 2022 Unknown English
17008 Quartet Leah Broad 2023 Unknown English
17008 Watford Forever Elton John, John Preston Unknown English
17008 Johnson At 10 Anthony Seldon, Raymond Newell 2023 British English
17008 Matrescence Lucy Jones 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Tragic Mind Robert D. Kaplan 2023 American English
17008 Burning Angel And Other Stories Lawrence Osborne Unknown English
17008 Bright Fear Mary Jean Chan 2023 Unknown English
17008 Ours Was The Shining Future David Leonhardt 2023 Unknown English
17008 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2021 French French
17008 Couplets Maggie Millner 2023 Unknown English
8550 A Day In The Life Of Abed Salama Nathan Thrall 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Talk Darrin Bell 2023 American English
17008 The Great White Bard Farah Karim‑Cooper 2023 Unknown English
17008 Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez 2023 Unknown English
17008 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Unknown Russian
17008 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
17008 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
17008 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17008 Liliana’s Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza 2023 Unknown Spanish
17008 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
17008 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 American English
17008 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
17008 A Shining Jon Fosse 2023 Norwegian Unknown
17008 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
17008 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2023 French French
8824 Desertion Abdulrazak Gurnah 2005 Tanzanian English
7198 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
10864 You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith 2023 American English
14901 Outlive Peter Attia 2023 American English
17008 The Heat Will Kill You First Jeff Goodell 2023 American English
17008 The Last Devil To Die Richard Osman 2023 British English
12132 My Work Olga Ravn 2023 Danish Danish
14901 Greek Lessons Han Kang 2011 Korean Korean
7653 Soldier Sailor Claire Kilroy 2024 Irish Unknown
17008 Wandering Souls Cecile Pin 2023 Unknown English
17008 Fever House Keith Rosson 2023 Unknown English
14901 The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar 2024 English
17008 How Big Things Get Done Bent Flyvbjerg 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Good Life Robert Waldinger 2023 Unknown English
17008 Deadly Quiet City Murong Xuecun 2021 Chinese Chinese
17008 Flowers Of Fire Hawon Jung 2023 Unknown English
14165 What Happened To Ruthy Ramirez Claire Jimenez 2023 Unknown English
14901 Ultra Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
8840 What You Are Looking For Is In The Library Michiko Aoyama 2020 Japanese Japanese
17008 Der Junge Mann Annie Ernaux 2022 French French
17008 The Eyes And The Impossible Dave Eggers 2023 American English
17008 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17008 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17008 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Russian Russian
17008 The Identity Trap Yascha Mounk 2023 Unknown English
17008 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17008 Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix 2023 Unknown English
17008 River Sing Me Home Eleanor Shearer 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Future Naomi Alderman British Unknown
14901 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
17008 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17008 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
14901 Above Ground Clint Smith 2023 American English
17008 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17008 Chrome Valley Mahogany L. Browne 2023 Unknown English
17008 Fair Play Katie Barnes Unknown English
17008 Ghost Music An Yu 2022 Unknown English
17008 Holding Pattern Jenny Xie 2023 Unknown English
17008 Holler, Child Latoya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17008 How Not To Kill Yourself Clancy Martin 2023 American English
17008 I Am Still With You Emmanuel Iduma 2023 Nigerian English
17008 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English
17008 Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go Cleo Qian 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Male Gazed Manuel Betancourt 2023 Unknown English
17008 Mott Street Ava Chin 2023 Unknown English
17008 None Of The Above Travis Alabanza 2022 Unknown English
17008 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17008 Owner Of A Lonely Heart Beth Nguyen 2023 Unknown English
17008 Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 2023 Unknown English
17008 Thin Skin Jenn Shapland 2023 Unknown English
17008 The Three Of Us Ore Agbaje‑Williams 2023 Unknown English
17008 Flee North Scott Shane 2023 Unknown English
17008 No One Will Come Back For Us Premee Mohamed 2023 Canadian English
17008 The Strange Nathan Ballingrud 2023 American English
17008 Critical Mass Daniel Suarez 2023 American English
17008 Fixit Joe Ide 2023 American English
17008 The Kind Worth Saving Peter Swanson 2023 American English