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
17169 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Two Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
14986 The End Of Drum Time Hanna Pylväinen 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Deadline Jill Lepore 2023 American English
17169 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 Unknown English
17169 Material World Ed Conway 2023 Unknown English
14986 How I Won A Nobel Prize Julius Taranto 2024 Unknown English
17169 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2022 British English
17169 The Parrot And The Igloo David Lipsky 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Last Language Jennifer duBois 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Upstairs Delicatessen Dwight Garner 2023 American English
17169 Menewood Nicola Griffith 2023 British English
17169 The Heaven And Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
17169 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17169 Bride Of The Tornado James Kennedy Unknown Unknown
17169 Motherland Paula Ramón 2020 Unknown English
17169 The Path To Paradise Sam Wasson 2023 Unknown English
17169 Lucky Dogs Helen Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17169 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
14986 Cuddy Benjamin Myers 2023 British English
17169 An Uneasy Inheritance Polly Toynbee 2023 British English
17169 The Woman In Me Britney Spears 2023 American English
8225 Ordinary Human Failings Megan Nolan 2024 Irish English
17169 Small Worlds Caleb Azumah Nelson 2023 British English
17169 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17169 The Men Can't Be Saved Ben Purkert 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Lookback Window Kyle Dillon Hertz 2023 Unknown English
17169 A "Working Life" Eileen Myles 2023 American English
17169 Sonic Life Thurston Moore 2023 American English
17169 Our Secret Society Tanisha Ford 2023 Unknown English
17169 Bob Dylan Mark Davidson, Parker Fishel 2022 Unknown English
17169 Those We Thought We Knew David Joy 2023 American English
17169 Omar Victor Diop & The Anonymous Project, Being There Omar Victor Diop, Lee Shulman 2023 Unknown French
17169 Traffic Ben Smith 2023 Unknown English
17169 A Memoir Of My Former Self Hilary Mantel 2023 British English
17169 What Is A Doctor? Dr Phil Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17169 A Northern Wind David Kynaston 2022 Unknown English
17169 Quartet Leah Broad 2023 Unknown English
17169 Watford Forever Elton John, John Preston Unknown English
17169 Johnson At 10 Anthony Seldon, Raymond Newell 2023 British English
17169 Matrescence Lucy Jones 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Tragic Mind Robert D. Kaplan 2023 American English
17169 Burning Angel And Other Stories Lawrence Osborne Unknown English
17169 Bright Fear Mary Jean Chan 2023 Unknown English
17169 Ours Was The Shining Future David Leonhardt 2023 Unknown English
17169 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2021 French French
17169 Couplets Maggie Millner 2023 Unknown English
8569 A Day In The Life Of Abed Salama Nathan Thrall 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Talk Darrin Bell 2023 American English
17169 The Great White Bard Farah Karim‑Cooper 2023 Unknown English
17169 Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez 2023 Unknown English
17169 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Unknown Russian
17169 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
17169 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
17169 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17169 Liliana’s Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza 2023 Unknown Spanish
17169 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
17169 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 American English
17169 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
17169 A Shining Jon Fosse 2023 Norwegian Unknown
17169 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
17169 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2023 French French
8844 Desertion Abdulrazak Gurnah 2005 Tanzanian English
7214 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
10897 You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith 2023 American English
14986 Outlive Peter Attia 2023 American English
17169 The Heat Will Kill You First Jeff Goodell 2023 American English
17169 The Last Devil To Die Richard Osman 2023 British English
12159 My Work Olga Ravn 2023 Danish Danish
14986 Greek Lessons Han Kang 2011 Korean Korean
7669 Soldier Sailor Claire Kilroy 2024 Irish Unknown
17169 Wandering Souls Cecile Pin 2023 Unknown English
17169 Fever House Keith Rosson 2023 Unknown English
14986 The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar 2024 English
17169 How Big Things Get Done Bent Flyvbjerg 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Good Life Robert Waldinger 2023 Unknown English
17169 Deadly Quiet City Murong Xuecun 2021 Chinese Chinese
17169 Flowers Of Fire Hawon Jung 2023 Unknown English
14232 What Happened To Ruthy Ramirez Claire Jimenez 2023 Unknown English
14986 Ultra Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
8859 What You Are Looking For Is In The Library Michiko Aoyama 2020 Japanese Japanese
17169 Der Junge Mann Annie Ernaux 2022 French French
17169 The Eyes And The Impossible Dave Eggers 2023 American English
17169 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17169 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17169 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Russian Russian
17169 The Identity Trap Yascha Mounk 2023 Unknown English
17169 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17169 Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix 2023 Unknown English
17169 River Sing Me Home Eleanor Shearer 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Future Naomi Alderman British Unknown
14986 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
17169 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17169 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
14986 Above Ground Clint Smith 2023 American English
17169 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17169 Chrome Valley Mahogany L. Browne 2023 Unknown English
17169 Fair Play Katie Barnes Unknown English
17169 Ghost Music An Yu 2022 Unknown English
17169 Holding Pattern Jenny Xie 2023 Unknown English
17169 Holler, Child Latoya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17169 How Not To Kill Yourself Clancy Martin 2023 American English
17169 I Am Still With You Emmanuel Iduma 2023 Nigerian English
17169 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English
17169 Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go Cleo Qian 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Male Gazed Manuel Betancourt 2023 Unknown English
17169 Mott Street Ava Chin 2023 Unknown English
17169 None Of The Above Travis Alabanza 2022 Unknown English
17169 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17169 Owner Of A Lonely Heart Beth Nguyen 2023 Unknown English
17169 Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 2023 Unknown English
17169 Thin Skin Jenn Shapland 2023 Unknown English
17169 The Three Of Us Ore Agbaje‑Williams 2023 Unknown English
17169 Flee North Scott Shane 2023 Unknown English
17169 No One Will Come Back For Us Premee Mohamed 2023 Canadian English
17169 The Strange Nathan Ballingrud 2023 American English
14986 Critical Mass Daniel Suarez 2023 American English
17169 Fixit Joe Ide 2023 American English
17169 The Kind Worth Saving Peter Swanson 2023 American English