The Best Books of 2023 According to The New Yorker

1.
I Must Be Dreaming
I Must Be Dreaming
by: Roz Chast
3.64 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
2.
The English Experience
The English Experience 3.90 avg rating — 2,434 ratings
3.
The Bee Sting
The Bee Sting 3.89 avg rating — 113,568 ratings
4.
Biography of X
Biography of X 3.82 avg rating — 14,619 ratings
5.
Birnam Wood
Birnam Wood 3.80 avg rating — 50,397 ratings
6.
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight 4.10 avg rating — 5,610 ratings
7.
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy 4.35 avg rating — 11,054 ratings
8.
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance 3.94 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
9.
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World 4.33 avg rating — 10,386 ratings
10.
The Fraud
The Fraud 3.27 avg rating — 32,156 ratings
11.
Grand Tour: Poems
Grand Tour: Poems 3.89 avg rating — 309 ratings
12.
The Guest
The Guest 3.28 avg rating — 106,937 ratings
13.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home 3.29 avg rating — 6,473 ratings
14.
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country 4.40 avg rating — 2,324 ratings
15.
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia 4.29 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
16.
King: A Life
King: A Life 4.65 avg rating — 11,032 ratings
17.
The Lights: Poems
The Lights: Poems 3.85 avg rating — 400 ratings
18.
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice 4.32 avg rating — 18,729 ratings
19.
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by: Ilyon Woo
3.98 avg rating — 17,459 ratings
20.
Ordinary Notes
Ordinary Notes 4.54 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
21.
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History 4.15 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
22.
Roman Stories
Roman Stories 3.79 avg rating — 8,722 ratings
23.
A Shining
A Shining
by: Jon Fosse
3.48 avg rating — 11,340 ratings
24.
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country 4.19 avg rating — 8,607 ratings
25.
Vengeance Is Mine
Vengeance Is Mine 2.84 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
26.
Y/N
Y/N
by: Esther Yi
2.92 avg rating — 8,179 ratings
27.
Brooklyn Crime Novel
Brooklyn Crime Novel 3.49 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
28.
Earlier (Semiotext
Earlier (Semiotext 3.93 avg rating — 57 ratings
29.
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction 4.29 avg rating — 438 ratings
30.
A History of Fake Things on the Internet
A History of Fake Things on the Internet 3.38 avg rating — 61 ratings
31.
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided 4.10 avg rating — 584 ratings
32.
Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend 3.69 avg rating — 35,996 ratings
33.
The Love of Singular Men
The Love of Singular Men 3.95 avg rating — 2,708 ratings
34.
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany 4.22 avg rating — 3,797 ratings
35.
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland 4.16 avg rating — 520 ratings
36.
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep 3.96 avg rating — 228 ratings
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January
January 3.97 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
38.
A Council of Dolls
A Council of Dolls 4.02 avg rating — 6,867 ratings
39.
The Long Form
The Long Form 4.08 avg rating — 485 ratings
40.
Lies and Sorcery
Lies and Sorcery 4.14 avg rating — 2,064 ratings
41.
A Haunting on the Hill
A Haunting on the Hill 3.32 avg rating — 10,443 ratings
42.
The House of Doors
The House of Doors 4.11 avg rating — 20,515 ratings
43.
Romney: A Reckoning
Romney: A Reckoning 4.35 avg rating — 7,765 ratings
44.
The Dimensions of a Cave
The Dimensions of a Cave 3.34 avg rating — 157 ratings
45.
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon 3.82 avg rating — 33,702 ratings
46.
The Mysteries
The Mysteries 3.76 avg rating — 5,862 ratings
47.
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
48.
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination 4.36 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
49.
On Marriage
On Marriage 3.39 avg rating — 61 ratings
50.
Monica
Monica 3.92 avg rating — 5,148 ratings
51.
The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind 3.87 avg rating — 757 ratings
52.
A Volga Tale
A Volga Tale 4.14 avg rating — 5,069 ratings
53.
Artificial: A Love Story
Artificial: A Love Story 3.56 avg rating — 317 ratings
54.
Omega Farm: A Memoir
Omega Farm: A Memoir 3.69 avg rating — 467 ratings
55.
Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV 3.54 avg rating — 668 ratings
56.
The Pensive Citadel
The Pensive Citadel 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
57.
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet 4.43 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
58.
The Body of the Soul: Stories
The Body of the Soul: Stories 3.91 avg rating — 155 ratings
59.
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t 3.98 avg rating — 130 ratings
60.
This Is Salvaged
This Is Salvaged 3.67 avg rating — 703 ratings
61.
Wound
Wound 3.86 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
62.
The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet
The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet 4.12 avg rating — 72 ratings
63.
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America 3.95 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
64.
This Won’t Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse
This Won’t Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse 3.66 avg rating — 213 ratings
65.
Black Friend: Essays
Black Friend: Essays
by: Ziwe
4.27 avg rating — 8,078 ratings
66.
Our Hideous Progeny
Our Hideous Progeny 3.92 avg rating — 8,029 ratings
67.
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech 4.15 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
68.
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul 3.78 avg rating — 477 ratings
69.
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World 4.09 avg rating — 6,156 ratings
70.
Pet
Pet 4.03 avg rating — 9,279 ratings
71.
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial 4.32 avg rating — 3,033 ratings
72.
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 4.20 avg rating — 934 ratings
73.
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading 3.85 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
74.
Fire in the Canyon
Fire in the Canyon 3.87 avg rating — 341 ratings
75.
Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories
Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories 3.28 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
76.
The Hive and the Honey: Stories
The Hive and the Honey: Stories
by: Paul Yoon
3.71 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
77.
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 4.28 avg rating — 898 ratings
78.
Reproduction
Reproduction 3.78 avg rating — 910 ratings
79.
The Unsettled
The Unsettled 3.52 avg rating — 3,261 ratings
80.
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks 3.71 avg rating — 241 ratings
81.
The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
by: Adam Welz
4.24 avg rating — 423 ratings
82.
The Wren, the Wren
The Wren, the Wren 3.52 avg rating — 13,686 ratings
83.
How to Say Babylon
How to Say Babylon 4.44 avg rating — 28,353 ratings
84.
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives 3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings
85.
A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma 4.15 avg rating — 1,583 ratings
86.
Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty 3.89 avg rating — 350 ratings
87.
Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews
Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews 4.01 avg rating — 92 ratings
88.
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future 4.36 avg rating — 579 ratings
89.
Loved and Missed
Loved and Missed 4.28 avg rating — 4,715 ratings
90.
Glint of Light, The
Glint of Light, The really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
91.
The Pole
The Pole 3.66 avg rating — 4,920 ratings
92.
Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier 3.30 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
93.
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close 3.62 avg rating — 818 ratings
94.
Console: Poems
Console: Poems 3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
95.
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality 4.25 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
96.
Emergency
Emergency 3.81 avg rating — 518 ratings
97.
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America 3.59 avg rating — 125 ratings
98.
The Caretaker
The Caretaker
by: Ron Rash
4.17 avg rating — 9,847 ratings
99.
The Most Secret Memory of Men
The Most Secret Memory of Men 4.18 avg rating — 14,566 ratings
100.
Up Home: One Girl's Journey
Up Home: One Girl's Journey 3.99 avg rating — 2,185 ratings