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 Ladies’ Lunch Lore Segal 2023 American English
17152 The English Experience Julie Schumacher 2023 American English
17152 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 American English
17152 American Gun Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Reproduction Louisa Hall 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
17152 How To Be Adam Nicolson 2023 British English
17152 The End Of Eden Adam Welz 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright 2023 Irish English
17152 How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Civic Bargain Brook Manville, Josiah Ober 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Flat Place Noreen Masud 2023 Unknown English
17152 Live To See The Day Nikhil Goyal 2023 Unknown English
17152 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
17152 Sparks Ian Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
17152 The Glint Of Light Clarence Major 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 The Pole J. M. Coetzee 2023 South African English
17152 Glossy Marisa Meltzer 2023 Unknown English
17152 Pockets Hannah Carlson 2023 Unknown English
17152 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17152 Console Colin Channer 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17152 Digital Empires Anu Bradford 2023 Unknown English
17152 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Women Of Now Katherine Turk 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Caretaker Ron Rash 2023 American English
14985 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
17152 Up Home Ruth J. Simmons 2023 Unknown English
17152 Betty Friedan Rachel Shteir 2023 Unknown English
17152 Cosmic Scholar John Szwed 2023 Unknown English
17152 Young Queens Leah Redmond Chang 2023 Unknown English
17152 Anansi’s Gold Yepoka Yeebo 2023 Unknown English
17152 Wednesday’s Child Yiyun Li 2023 American English
17152 The Suicide Museum Ariel Dorfman 2023 Chilean English
17152 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2023 French French
17152 Unreliable Narrator Aparna Nancherla 2023 Unknown English
17152 I’m A Fan Sheena Patel 2023 Unknown English
17152 Dragon Palace Hiromi Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17152 The Details Ia Genberg 2023 Unknown Swedish
17152 Some Unfinished Chaos Arthur Krystal 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 24 7 Politics Kathryn Cramer Brownell 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Word Or Two Before I Go Arthur Krystal 2023 American English
17152 Witness Jamel Brinkley 2023 American English
17152 Father And Son Jonathan Raban 2023 British English
17152 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Philosopher Of Palo Alto John Tinnell 2023 Unknown English
17152 My Husband Maud Ventura 2023 French French
17152 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
17152 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17152 Why The Bible Began Jacob L. Wright 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 This Is Wildfire Nick Mott, Justin Angle 2023 Unknown English
17152 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17152 Hangman Maya Binyam 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Deadline Jill Lepore 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 2023 Unknown English
17152 Brave The Wild River Melissa L. Sevigny 2023 Unknown English
17152 Disruptions Steven Millhauser 2023 American Unknown
17152 The Plague Jacqueline Rose 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 The Peacock And The Sparrow I. S. Berry 2023 Unknown English
17152 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa Stephen Buoro 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Ferguson Report Nicole Sealey 2023 Unknown English
17152 My Stupid Intentions Bernardo Zannoni 2023 Italian Italian
17152 Still Born Guadalupe Nettel 2023 Mexican Spanish
17152 August Wilson Patti Hartigan 2023 Unknown English
17152 Information Desk Robyn Schiff 2023 Unknown English
17152 War And Punishment Mikhail Zygar 2023 Unknown Russian
17152 Last Of The Lions Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly 2023 Unknown English
17152 You, Bleeding Childhood Michele Mari 2023 Italian Italian
17152 The Migrant Chef Laura Tillman 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Centre Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Most Tolerant Little Town Rachel Louise Martin 2023 Unknown English
17152 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
17152 The Parrot And The Igloo David Lipsky 2023 American English
17152 Hope Andrew Ridker 2023 American English
17152 Dykette Jenny Fran Davis 2023 Unknown English
17152 Ultra‑Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
17152 Retrospective Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2023 Colombian Spanish
17152 Last Call At Coogan’s Jon Michaud 2023 Unknown English
17152 Rhythm Man Stephanie Stein Crease 2023 Unknown English
17152 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17152 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17152 Fire Rush Jacqueline Crooks 2023 Unknown English
17152 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17152 Ninth Building Zou Jingzhi 2023 Chinese Chinese
17152 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 Unknown English
17152 How To Love Your Daughter Hila Blum 2023 Unknown Hebrew
17152 So To Speak Terrance Hayes 2023 American English
17152 Snow Road Station Elizabeth Hay 2023 Canadian English
17152 Elsewhere Yan Ge 2023 Chinese English
17152 A Madman’s Will Gregory May 2023 Unknown English
17152 Tabula Rasa John McPhee 2023 Unknown English
17152 Fires In The Dark Kay Redfield Jamison 2023 Unknown English
17152 After The Funeral And Other Stories Tessa Hadley 2023 British English
17152 Wasteland Oliver Franklin‑Wallis 2023 Unknown English
17152 Natural Light Julian Bell 2023 British English
17152 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Lost Sons Of Omaha Joe Sexton 2023 Unknown English
17152 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Book Of Eve Carmen Boullosa 2023 Unknown Spanish
17152 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
17152 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17152 Tiger Work Ben Okri 2023 British English
17152 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
17152 Tomorrow Perhaps The Future Sarah Watling 2023 Unknown English
17152 The House Is On Fire Rachel Beanland 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Sullivanians Alexander Stille 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Late Americans Brandon Taylor 2023 American English
17152 Instructions For The Drowning Steven Heighton 2023 Canadian English
17152 Easily Slip Into Another World Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards 2023 Unknown English
17152 Lament For Julia Susan Taubes 2023 Unknown English
17152 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17152 V Is For Victory Craig Nelson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Be Mine Richard Ford 2023 American English
17152 A Life Of One’s Own Joanna Biggs 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
17152 An Honorable Exit Éric Vuillard 2023 French French
17152 The Talk Darrin Bell 2023 American English