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 Samuel Barber Howard Pollack 2023 Unknown English
17010 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
17010 We’re All In This Together...So Make Some Room Tom Papa 2023 American English
17010 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 Unknown English
17010 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
17010 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17010 The Plot To Save South Africa Justice Malala 2023 South African English
17010 Mozart In Motion Patrick Mackie 2023 Unknown English
17010 My Father’s Brain Sandeep Jauhar 2023 American English
17010 Gravity And Center Henri Cole 2023 American English
17010 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17010 Paved Paradise Henry Grabar 2023 Unknown English
17010 Biting The Hand Julia Lee 2023 Unknown English
17010 When The World Didn’t End Guinevere Turner 2023 Unknown English
17010 Carmageddon Daniel Knowles 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Weeds Katy Simpson Smith 2023 Unknown English
17010 Hungry Ghosts Kevin Jared Hosein 2023 Unknown English
17010 Actual Malice Samantha Barbas 2023 Unknown English
17010 Girl Juice Benji Nate 2023 Unknown English
17010 Holding The Note David Remnick 2023 American English
17010 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17010 Go Back And Get It Dionne Ford 2023 Unknown English
17010 We The Scientists Amy Dockser Marcus 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness Jai Chakrabarti 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Postcard Anne Berest 2023 French French
17010 Traffic Ben Smith 2023 Unknown English
17010 In The Orchard Eliza Minot 2023 Unknown English
17010 Camera Girl Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2023 Unknown English
17010 Shy Max Porter 2023 British English
17010 Hit Parade Of Tears Izumi Suzuki 2023 Japanese Japanese
17010 Waco Jeff Guinn 2023 American English
17010 Waco Rising Kevin Cook 2023 Unknown English
17010 Writers And Missionaries Adam Shatz 2023 Unknown English
17010 Impossible People Julia Wertz 2023 American English
17010 Stealing Margaret Verble 2023 American English
17010 Skip To The Fun Parts Dana Jeri Maier 2023 Unknown English
17010 Nothing Stays Put Willard Spiegelman 2023 Unknown English
17010 Still Life With Bones Alexa Hagerty 2023 Unknown English
17010 Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld 2023 American English
17010 To Anyone Who Ever Asks Howard Fishman 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Fawn Magda Szabó 2023 Hungarian Hungarian
17010 We Should Not Be Friends Will Schwalbe 2023 American English
17010 Künstlers In Paradise Cathleen Schine 2023 Unknown English
17010 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
17010 Small Mercies Dennis Lehane 2023 American English
14901 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
17010 Spoiled Anne Mendelson 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Cult Of Creativity Samuel W. Franklin 2023 Unknown English
17010 Psychonauts Mike Jay 2023 Unknown English
17010 Benjamin Banneker And Us Rachel Jamison Webster 2023 Unknown English
17010 Spring Rain Marc Hamer 2023 British English
17010 In Memoriam Alice Winn 2023 Unknown English
17010 Tenacious Beasts Christopher J. Preston 2023 Unknown English
17010 Is It Hot In Here? Zach Zimmerman 2023 Unknown English
14901 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
17010 Greek Lessons Han Kang 2023 Korean Korean
17010 Raving McKenzie Wark 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Laughter Sonora Jha 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Diary Keepers Nina Siegal 2023 Unknown English
17010 Steady Rollin Fred Noland 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 Pineapple Street Jenny Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17010 Courting India Nandini Das 2023 Unknown English
17010 Skeletons Deborah Landau 2023 Unknown English
17010 There Will Be Fire Rory Carroll 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Spell Of Good Things Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ 2023 Nigerian English
17010 White Cat, Black Dog Kelly Link 2023 American English
17010 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
17010 Siblings Brigitte Reimann 2023 German German
17010 Picasso The Foreigner Annie Cohen‑Solal 2023 Unknown French
17010 How Data Happened Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones 2023 Unknown English
17010 Spoken Word Joshua Bennett 2023 Unknown English
17010 Look At The Lights, My Love Annie Ernaux 2023 French French
17010 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
17010 Ringmaster Abraham Riesman 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Kingdom Of Prep Maggie Bullock 2023 Unknown English
17010 Ghosts Of The Orphanage Christine Kenneally 2023 Unknown English
17010 Milton Glaser Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, Beth Kleber 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Absent Moon Luiz Schwarcz 2023 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 We Were Once A Family Roxanna Asgarian 2023 Unknown English
17010 An Autobiography Of Skin Lakiesha Carr 2023 Unknown English
17010 Old God’s Time Sebastian Barry 2023 Irish English
17010 The Dog Of The North Elizabeth McKenzie 2023 American English
17010 Users Colin Winnette 2023 Unknown English
17010 I Am Still With You Emmanuel Iduma 2023 Nigerian English
14901 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
17010 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs Gulchehra Hoja 2023 Unknown English
17010 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2023 French French
17010 Big Swiss Jen Beagin 2023 American English
17010 The Great Displacement Jake Bittle 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Real Work Adam Gopnik 2023 American English
17010 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17010 The Written World And The Unwritten World Italo Calvino 2023 Italian Italian
17010 The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane 2023 Unknown English
17010 Iron Curtain Vesna Goldsworthy 2023 Unknown English
17010 Collected Works Lydia Sandgren 2023 Unknown Swedish
17010 Life On Delay John Hendrickson 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Devil’s Element Dan Egan 2023 Unknown English
17010 Brooklyn’s Last Secret Leslie Stein 2023 Unknown English
17010 I Have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai 2023 American English
17010 Evil Flowers Gunnhild Øyehaug 2023 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 Three Roads Back Robert D. Richardson 2023 Unknown English
17010 Cobalt Red Siddharth Kara 2023 Unknown English
17010 Daughter In Exile Bisi Adjapon 2023 Unknown English
17010 Oscar Wars Michael Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17010 This Other Eden Paul Harding 2023 American English
17010 The Wife Of Bath Marion Turner 2023 Unknown English
17010 When The News Broke Heather Hendershot 2023 Unknown English
17010 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17010 Why You’ll Never Find The One Sarah Akinterinwa 2023 Unknown English
17010 Skull Water Heinz Insu Fenkl 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Wandering Mind Jamie Kreiner 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Sense Of Wonder Matthew Salesses 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17010 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Scythian Empire Christopher I. Beckwith 2023 Unknown English
17010 Pirate Enlightenment David Graeber 2023 Unknown English
17010 Spare Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex 2023 British English
17010 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian