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 Samuel Barber Howard Pollack 2023 Unknown English
17152 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
17152 We’re All In This Together...So Make Some Room Tom Papa 2023 American English
17152 Monsters Claire Dederer 2023 Unknown English
17152 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
17152 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17152 The Plot To Save South Africa Justice Malala 2023 South African English
17152 Mozart In Motion Patrick Mackie 2023 Unknown English
17152 My Father’s Brain Sandeep Jauhar 2023 American English
17152 Gravity And Center Henri Cole 2023 American English
17152 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17152 Paved Paradise Henry Grabar 2023 Unknown English
17152 Biting The Hand Julia Lee 2023 Unknown English
17152 When The World Didn’t End Guinevere Turner 2023 Unknown English
17152 Carmageddon Daniel Knowles 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Weeds Katy Simpson Smith 2023 Unknown English
17152 Hungry Ghosts Kevin Jared Hosein 2023 Unknown English
17152 Actual Malice Samantha Barbas 2023 Unknown English
17152 Girl Juice Benji Nate 2023 Unknown English
17152 Holding The Note David Remnick 2023 American English
17152 Parfit David Edmonds 2023 Unknown English
17152 Go Back And Get It Dionne Ford 2023 Unknown English
17152 We The Scientists Amy Dockser Marcus 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness Jai Chakrabarti 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Postcard Anne Berest 2023 French French
17152 Traffic Ben Smith 2023 Unknown English
17152 In The Orchard Eliza Minot 2023 Unknown English
17152 Camera Girl Carl Sferrazza Anthony 2023 Unknown English
17152 Shy Max Porter 2023 British English
17152 Hit Parade Of Tears Izumi Suzuki 2023 Japanese Japanese
17152 Waco Jeff Guinn 2023 American English
17152 Waco Rising Kevin Cook 2023 Unknown English
17152 Writers And Missionaries Adam Shatz 2023 Unknown English
17152 Impossible People Julia Wertz 2023 American English
17152 Stealing Margaret Verble 2023 American English
17152 Skip To The Fun Parts Dana Jeri Maier 2023 Unknown English
17152 Nothing Stays Put Willard Spiegelman 2023 Unknown English
17152 Still Life With Bones Alexa Hagerty 2023 Unknown English
17152 Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld 2023 American English
17152 To Anyone Who Ever Asks Howard Fishman 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Fawn Magda Szabó 2023 Hungarian Hungarian
17152 We Should Not Be Friends Will Schwalbe 2023 American English
17152 Künstlers In Paradise Cathleen Schine 2023 Unknown English
17152 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
17152 Small Mercies Dennis Lehane 2023 American English
14985 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
17152 Spoiled Anne Mendelson 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 The Cult Of Creativity Samuel W. Franklin 2023 Unknown English
17152 Psychonauts Mike Jay 2023 Unknown English
17152 Benjamin Banneker And Us Rachel Jamison Webster 2023 Unknown English
17152 Spring Rain Marc Hamer 2023 British English
17152 In Memoriam Alice Winn 2023 Unknown English
17152 Tenacious Beasts Christopher J. Preston 2023 Unknown English
17152 Is It Hot In Here? Zach Zimmerman 2023 Unknown English
14985 The Wager David Grann 2023 American English
17152 Greek Lessons Han Kang 2023 Korean Korean
17152 Raving McKenzie Wark 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Laughter Sonora Jha 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Diary Keepers Nina Siegal 2023 Unknown English
17152 Steady Rollin Fred Noland 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 Pineapple Street Jenny Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Courting India Nandini Das 2023 Unknown English
17152 Skeletons Deborah Landau 2023 Unknown English
17152 There Will Be Fire Rory Carroll 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Spell Of Good Things Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ 2023 Nigerian English
17152 White Cat, Black Dog Kelly Link 2023 American English
17152 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
17152 Siblings Brigitte Reimann 2023 German German
17152 Picasso The Foreigner Annie Cohen‑Solal 2023 Unknown French
17152 How Data Happened Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones 2023 Unknown English
17152 Spoken Word Joshua Bennett 2023 Unknown English
17152 Look At The Lights, My Love Annie Ernaux 2023 French French
17152 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
17152 Ringmaster Abraham Riesman 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Kingdom Of Prep Maggie Bullock 2023 Unknown English
17152 Ghosts Of The Orphanage Christine Kenneally 2023 Unknown English
17152 Milton Glaser Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, Beth Kleber 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Absent Moon Luiz Schwarcz 2023 Brazilian Portuguese
17152 We Were Once A Family Roxanna Asgarian 2023 Unknown English
17152 An Autobiography Of Skin Lakiesha Carr 2023 Unknown English
17152 Old God’s Time Sebastian Barry 2023 Irish English
17152 The Dog Of The North Elizabeth McKenzie 2023 American English
17152 Users Colin Winnette 2023 Unknown English
17152 I Am Still With You Emmanuel Iduma 2023 Nigerian English
14985 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
17152 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs Gulchehra Hoja 2023 Unknown English
17152 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2023 French French
17152 Big Swiss Jen Beagin 2023 American English
17152 The Great Displacement Jake Bittle 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Real Work Adam Gopnik 2023 American English
17152 The Half Known Life Pico Iyer 2023 British English
17152 The Written World And The Unwritten World Italo Calvino 2023 Italian Italian
17152 The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane 2023 Unknown English
17152 Iron Curtain Vesna Goldsworthy 2023 Unknown English
17152 Collected Works Lydia Sandgren 2023 Unknown Swedish
17152 Life On Delay John Hendrickson 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Devil’s Element Dan Egan 2023 Unknown English
17152 Brooklyn’s Last Secret Leslie Stein 2023 Unknown English
17152 I Have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai 2023 American English
17152 Evil Flowers Gunnhild Øyehaug 2023 Norwegian Norwegian
17152 Three Roads Back Robert D. Richardson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Cobalt Red Siddharth Kara 2023 Unknown English
17152 Daughter In Exile Bisi Adjapon 2023 Unknown English
17152 Oscar Wars Michael Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17152 This Other Eden Paul Harding 2023 American English
17152 The Wife Of Bath Marion Turner 2023 Unknown English
17152 When The News Broke Heather Hendershot 2023 Unknown English
17152 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17152 Why You’ll Never Find The One Sarah Akinterinwa 2023 Unknown English
17152 Skull Water Heinz Insu Fenkl 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Wandering Mind Jamie Kreiner 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Sense Of Wonder Matthew Salesses 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17152 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Scythian Empire Christopher I. Beckwith 2023 Unknown English
17152 Pirate Enlightenment David Graeber 2023 Unknown English
17152 Spare Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex 2023 British English
17152 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian