2023 New York Times Best Books

In the New York Times Best Books list selected 100 books.

Broadlist has categorized these selections as:

• Verylonglist (90 books)
• Shortlist (10 books)

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Source: 2023 New York Times Best Books

Very Long List

• A Guest in the House E. M. CarrollBuy →
• A History of Burning Janika OzaBuy →
• A House for Alice Diana EvansBuy →
• A Living Remedy Nicole ChungBuy →
• A Thread of Violence Mark O'ConnellBuy →
• After Sappho Selby Wynn SchwartzBuy →
• All the Sinners Bleed S.A. CosbyBuy →
• Anansi's Gold Yepoka YeeboBuy →
• Battle of Ink and Ice Darrell HartmanBuy →
• Biography of X Catherine LaceyBuy →
• Birnam Wood Eleanor CattonBuy →
• Blackouts Justin TorresBuy →
• Bright Young Women Jessica KnollBuy →
• Built from the Fire Victor LuckersonBuy →
• Cobalt Red Siddharth KaraBuy →
• Crook Manifesto Colson WhiteheadBuy →
• Crossings Ben GoldfarbBuy →
• Daughter of the Dragon Yunte HuangBuy →
• Doppelganger Naomi KleinBuy →
• Easily Slip into Another World Brent Hayes EdwardsBuy →
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather FawcettBuy →
• Enter Ghost Isabella HammadBuy →
• Forbidden Notebook Alba de CéspedesBuy →
• From From Monica YounBuy →
• Hello Beautiful Ann NapolitanoBuy →
• Holly Stephen KingBuy →
• How to Say Babylon Safiya SinclairBuy →
• Humanly Possible Sarah BakewellBuy →
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe Emma TörzsBuy →
• Judgement at Tokyo Gary J. BassBuy →
• Kairos Jenny ErpenbeckBuy →
• Kantika Elizabeth GraverBuy →
• King: A Life Jonathan EigBuy →
• Land of Milk and Honey C Pam ZhangBuy →
• Liliana's Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera GarzaBuy →
• Lives of the Wives Carmela CiuraruBuy →
• Lone Women Victor LaValleBuy →
• Monica Daniel ClowesBuy →
• Monsters Claire DedererBuy →
• My Name Is Barbra Barbra StreisandBuy →
• Not Even the Dead Juan Goméz BarcenaBuy →
• Ordinary Notes Christina SharpeBuy →
• Oscar Wars Michael SchulmanBuy →
• Our Migrant Souls Héctor TobarBuy →
• Our Share of Night Mariana EnriquezBuy →
• Pageboy Elliot PageBuy →
• Pineapple Street Jenny JacksonBuy →
• Poverty, by America Matthew DesmondBuy →
• Same Bed Different Dreams Ed ParkBuy →
• Schoenberg Harvey SachsBuy →
• Sink Joseph Earl ThomasBuy →
• Spoken Word Joshua BennettBuy →
• Take What You Need Idra NoveyBuy →
• The 272 Rachel L. SwarnsBuy →
• The Covenant of Water Abraham VergheseBuy →
• The Deluge Stephen MarkleyBuy →
• The Exceptions Kate ZernikeBuy →
• The Great Escape Saket SoniBuy →
• The Half Known Life Pico IyerBuy →
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBrideBuy →
• The Iliad of Homer HomerBuy →
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory Tim AlbertaBuy →
• The Land of Hope and Fear Isabel KershnerBuy →
• The Most Secret Memory of Men Mohamed Mbougar SarrBuy →
• The New Naturals Gabriel BumpBuy →
• The Nursery Szilvia MolnarBuy →
• The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley David WaldstreicherBuy →
• The Rediscovery of America Ned BlackhawkBuy →
• The Reformatory Tananarive DueBuy →
• The Rigor of Angels William EggintonBuy →
• The Saint of Bright Doors Vajra ChandrasekeraBuy →
• The Slip Prudence PeifferBuy →
• The Undertow Jeff SharletBuy →
• The Unsettled Ayana MathisBuy →
• The Wager David GrannBuy →
• This Other Eden Paul HardingBuy →
• Time's Echo Jeremy EichlerBuy →
• Tom Lake Ann PatchettBuy →
• Unscripted James B. StewartBuy →
• Up Home Ruth J. SimmonsBuy →
• Victory City Salman RushdieBuy →
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night Tahir Hamut IzgilBuy →
• We Could Be So Good Cat SebastianBuy →
• Western Lane Chetna MarooBuy →
• What an Owl Knows Jennifer AckermanBuy →
• Wifedom Anna FunderBuy →
• Witness Jamel BrinkleyBuy →
• Y/N Esther YiBuy →
• Yellowface R. F. KuangBuy →
• You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live Paul KixBuy →

Short List

• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley Buy on Bookshop →
• Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Buy on Bookshop →
• Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal Buy on Bookshop →
• Fire Weather by John Vaillant Buy on Bookshop →
• Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo Buy on Bookshop →
• North Woods by Daniel Mason Buy on Bookshop →
• Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista Buy on Bookshop →
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Buy on Bookshop →
• The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen Buy on Bookshop →
• The Fraud by Zadie Smith Buy on Bookshop →

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