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 Ladies’ Lunch Lore Segal 2023 American English
17010 The English Experience Julie Schumacher 2023 American English
17010 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 American English
17010 American Gun Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson 2023 Unknown English
17010 Reproduction Louisa Hall 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
17010 How To Be Adam Nicolson 2023 British English
17010 The End Of Eden Adam Welz 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright 2023 Irish English
17010 How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Civic Bargain Brook Manville, Josiah Ober 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Flat Place Noreen Masud 2023 Unknown English
17010 Live To See The Day Nikhil Goyal 2023 Unknown English
17010 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
17010 Sparks Ian Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17010 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
17010 The Glint Of Light Clarence Major 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Pole J. M. Coetzee 2023 South African English
17010 Glossy Marisa Meltzer 2023 Unknown English
17010 Pockets Hannah Carlson 2023 Unknown English
17010 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17010 Console Colin Channer 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Rigor Of Angels William Egginton 2023 Unknown English
17010 Digital Empires Anu Bradford 2023 Unknown English
17010 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Women Of Now Katherine Turk 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Caretaker Ron Rash 2023 American English
14901 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
17010 Up Home Ruth J. Simmons 2023 Unknown English
17010 Betty Friedan Rachel Shteir 2023 Unknown English
17010 Cosmic Scholar John Szwed 2023 Unknown English
17010 Young Queens Leah Redmond Chang 2023 Unknown English
17010 Anansi’s Gold Yepoka Yeebo 2023 Unknown English
17010 Wednesday’s Child Yiyun Li 2023 American English
17010 The Suicide Museum Ariel Dorfman 2023 Chilean English
17010 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2023 French French
17010 Unreliable Narrator Aparna Nancherla 2023 Unknown English
17010 I’m A Fan Sheena Patel 2023 Unknown English
17010 Dragon Palace Hiromi Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17010 The Details Ia Genberg 2023 Unknown Swedish
17010 Some Unfinished Chaos Arthur Krystal 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 24 7 Politics Kathryn Cramer Brownell 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Word Or Two Before I Go Arthur Krystal 2023 American English
17010 Witness Jamel Brinkley 2023 American English
17010 Father And Son Jonathan Raban 2023 British English
17010 The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Philosopher Of Palo Alto John Tinnell 2023 Unknown English
17010 My Husband Maud Ventura 2023 French French
17010 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
17010 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17010 Why The Bible Began Jacob L. Wright 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 This Is Wildfire Nick Mott, Justin Angle 2023 Unknown English
17010 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17010 Hangman Maya Binyam 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Deadline Jill Lepore 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 2023 Unknown English
17010 Brave The Wild River Melissa L. Sevigny 2023 Unknown English
17010 Disruptions Steven Millhauser 2023 American Unknown
17010 The Plague Jacqueline Rose 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Peacock And The Sparrow I. S. Berry 2023 Unknown English
17010 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa Stephen Buoro 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Ferguson Report Nicole Sealey 2023 Unknown English
17010 My Stupid Intentions Bernardo Zannoni 2023 Italian Italian
17010 Still Born Guadalupe Nettel 2023 Mexican Spanish
17010 August Wilson Patti Hartigan 2023 Unknown English
17010 Information Desk Robyn Schiff 2023 Unknown English
17010 War And Punishment Mikhail Zygar 2023 Unknown Russian
17010 Last Of The Lions Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly 2023 Unknown English
17010 You, Bleeding Childhood Michele Mari 2023 Italian Italian
17010 The Migrant Chef Laura Tillman 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Centre Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Most Tolerant Little Town Rachel Louise Martin 2023 Unknown English
17010 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
17010 The Parrot And The Igloo David Lipsky 2023 American English
17010 Hope Andrew Ridker 2023 American English
17010 Dykette Jenny Fran Davis 2023 Unknown English
17010 Ultra‑Processed People Chris van Tulleken 2023 British English
17010 Retrospective Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2023 Colombian Spanish
17010 Last Call At Coogan’s Jon Michaud 2023 Unknown English
17010 Rhythm Man Stephanie Stein Crease 2023 Unknown English
17010 Grand Delusion Steven Simon 2023 Unknown English
17010 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17010 Fire Rush Jacqueline Crooks 2023 Unknown English
17010 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17010 Ninth Building Zou Jingzhi 2023 Chinese Chinese
17010 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 Unknown English
17010 How To Love Your Daughter Hila Blum 2023 Unknown Hebrew
17010 So To Speak Terrance Hayes 2023 American English
17010 Snow Road Station Elizabeth Hay 2023 Canadian English
17010 Elsewhere Yan Ge 2023 Chinese English
17010 A Madman’s Will Gregory May 2023 Unknown English
17010 Tabula Rasa John McPhee 2023 Unknown English
17010 Fires In The Dark Kay Redfield Jamison 2023 Unknown English
17010 After The Funeral And Other Stories Tessa Hadley 2023 British English
17010 Wasteland Oliver Franklin‑Wallis 2023 Unknown English
17010 Natural Light Julian Bell 2023 British English
17010 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Lost Sons Of Omaha Joe Sexton 2023 Unknown English
17010 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Book Of Eve Carmen Boullosa 2023 Unknown Spanish
17010 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
17010 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17010 Tiger Work Ben Okri 2023 British English
17010 The Covenant Of Water Abraham Verghese 2023 American English
17010 Tomorrow Perhaps The Future Sarah Watling 2023 Unknown English
17010 The House Is On Fire Rachel Beanland 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Sullivanians Alexander Stille 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Late Americans Brandon Taylor 2023 American English
17010 Instructions For The Drowning Steven Heighton 2023 Canadian English
17010 Easily Slip Into Another World Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards 2023 Unknown English
17010 Lament For Julia Susan Taubes 2023 Unknown English
17010 Owlish Dorothy Tse 2023 Unknown Chinese
17010 V Is For Victory Craig Nelson 2023 Unknown English
17010 Be Mine Richard Ford 2023 American English
17010 A Life Of One’s Own Joanna Biggs 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
17010 An Honorable Exit Éric Vuillard 2023 French French
17010 The Talk Darrin Bell 2023 American English