Lit Hub's Ultimate Best Books of 2023

1.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 3.93 avg rating — 294,227 ratings
2.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder 4.17 avg rating — 184,878 ratings
3.
King: A Life
King: A Life 4.65 avg rating — 11,031 ratings
4.
The Art Thief
The Art Thief 3.94 avg rating — 75,478 ratings
5.
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 — 1,448 ratings
6.
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide 4.29 avg rating — 2,267 ratings
7.
The Woman in Me
The Woman in Me 3.83 avg rating — 548,073 ratings
8.
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 — 8,603 ratings
9.
Roaming
Roaming 3.73 avg rating — 5,982 ratings
10.
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Chain-Gang All-Stars 4.12 avg rating — 82,418 ratings
11.
Genuine Fraud
Genuine Fraud 3.24 avg rating — 50,783 ratings
12.
Birnam Wood
Birnam Wood 3.80 avg rating — 50,389 ratings
13.
Yellowface
Yellowface 3.74 avg rating — 900,284 ratings
14.
I Have Some Questions for You
I Have Some Questions for You 3.59 avg rating — 134,167 ratings
15.
Tom Lake
Tom Lake 3.94 avg rating — 453,567 ratings
16.
How to Say Babylon
How to Say Babylon 4.44 avg rating — 28,348 ratings
17.
Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend 3.69 avg rating — 35,992 ratings
18.
Our Share of Night
Our Share of Night 4.26 avg rating — 53,929 ratings
19.
The Bee Sting
The Bee Sting 3.89 avg rating — 113,514 ratings
20.
All the Sinners Bleed
All the Sinners Bleed 4.21 avg rating — 98,346 ratings
21.
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World 4.20 avg rating — 31,267 ratings
22.
Biography of X
Biography of X 3.82 avg rating — 14,613 ratings
23.
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma 3.71 avg rating — 19,591 ratings
24.
Age of Vice
Age of Vice 3.61 avg rating — 33,084 ratings
25.
Lone Women
Lone Women 3.70 avg rating — 34,411 ratings
26.
The Guest
The Guest 3.28 avg rating — 106,911 ratings
27.
North Woods
North Woods 4.11 avg rating — 92,963 ratings
28.
Blackouts
Blackouts 3.74 avg rating — 11,066 ratings
29.
The Covenant of Water
The Covenant of Water 4.42 avg rating — 280,389 ratings
30.
Crook Manifesto
Crook Manifesto 3.86 avg rating — 19,438 ratings
31.
Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America 4.27 avg rating — 56,632 ratings
32.
The Vaster Wilds
The Vaster Wilds 3.76 avg rating — 40,733 ratings
33.
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories 3.81 avg rating — 7,144 ratings
34.
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions 4.03 avg rating — 16,356 ratings
35.
Land of Milk and Honey
Land of Milk and Honey 3.51 avg rating — 21,852 ratings
36.
The Talk
The Talk 4.64 avg rating — 3,761 ratings
37.
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them 4.36 avg rating — 43,372 ratings
38.
Absolution
Absolution 3.76 avg rating — 27,250 ratings
39.
Hello Beautiful
Hello Beautiful 4.14 avg rating — 496,281 ratings
40.
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World 4.33 avg rating — 10,383 ratings
41.
Big Swiss
Big Swiss 3.68 avg rating — 128,790 ratings
42.
Witness: Stories
Witness: Stories 3.74 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
43.
A Living Remedy: A Memoir
A Living Remedy: A Memoir 3.99 avg rating — 5,896 ratings
44.
The Wren, the Wren
The Wren, the Wren 3.52 avg rating — 13,684 ratings
45.
Kairos
Kairos 3.36 avg rating — 21,774 ratings
46.
Loot
Loot 3.79 avg rating — 7,607 ratings
47.
Bright Young Women
Bright Young Women 3.99 avg rating — 205,805 ratings
48.
Terrace Story
Terrace Story 3.55 avg rating — 5,376 ratings
49.
Ordinary Notes
Ordinary Notes 4.54 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
50.
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
You Could Make This Place Beautiful 4.04 avg rating — 35,272 ratings
51.
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” 4.27 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
52.
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 — 17,456 ratings
53.
Monica
Monica 3.92 avg rating — 5,146 ratings
54.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating — 494,616 ratings
55.
The Maniac
The Maniac 4.34 avg rating — 22,416 ratings
56.
Small Mercies
Small Mercies 4.28 avg rating — 68,293 ratings
57.
Pageboy
Pageboy 3.73 avg rating — 72,696 ratings
58.
Old God's Time
Old God's Time 3.82 avg rating — 17,496 ratings
59.
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 — 2,181 ratings
60.
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution 3.85 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
61.
The Reformatory
The Reformatory 4.45 avg rating — 50,412 ratings
62.
Tremor
Tremor
by: Teju Cole
3.66 avg rating — 2,426 ratings
63.
After the Funeral and Other Stories
After the Funeral and Other Stories 3.81 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
64.
Enter Ghost
Enter Ghost 4.12 avg rating — 9,953 ratings
65.
The Great Reclamation
The Great Reclamation 4.02 avg rating — 3,710 ratings
66.
Happiness Falls
Happiness Falls
by: Angie Kim
3.73 avg rating — 82,653 ratings
67.
August Blue
August Blue 3.65 avg rating — 11,982 ratings
68.
Wednesday's Child: Stories
Wednesday's Child: Stories
by: Yiyun Li
3.70 avg rating — 2,797 ratings
69.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home 3.29 avg rating — 6,472 ratings
70.
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era 4.34 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
71.
My Name Is Barbra
My Name Is Barbra 4.18 avg rating — 19,995 ratings
72.
In Memoriam
In Memoriam 4.51 avg rating — 64,355 ratings
73.
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World 3.79 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
74.
The Future
The Future 3.85 avg rating — 21,740 ratings
75.
The Postcard
The Postcard 4.35 avg rating — 35,717 ratings
76.
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution 4.27 avg rating — 13,405 ratings
77.
The New Life
The New Life
by: Tom Crewe
3.75 avg rating — 5,980 ratings
78.
The Faraway World: Stories
The Faraway World: Stories 3.88 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
79.
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life 4.10 avg rating — 10,879 ratings
80.
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice 4.32 avg rating — 18,715 ratings
81.
This Other Eden
This Other Eden 3.77 avg rating — 20,238 ratings
82.
The Secret Hours
The Secret Hours 4.25 avg rating — 18,092 ratings
83.
Wellness
Wellness 3.98 avg rating — 72,296 ratings
84.
Mobility
Mobility 3.68 avg rating — 2,201 ratings
85.
Roman Stories
Roman Stories 3.79 avg rating — 8,721 ratings
86.
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
87.
The Unsettled
The Unsettled 3.52 avg rating — 3,261 ratings
88.
Vengeance Is Mine
Vengeance Is Mine 2.84 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
89.
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder 3.73 avg rating — 2,473 ratings
90.
The Rachel Incident
The Rachel Incident 4.07 avg rating — 122,427 ratings
91.
Same Bed Different Dreams
Same Bed Different Dreams
by: Ed Park
3.75 avg rating — 2,625 ratings
92.
Victory City
Victory City 3.76 avg rating — 13,927 ratings
93.
The Late Americans
The Late Americans 3.35 avg rating — 8,438 ratings
94.
The Hive and the Honey: Stories
The Hive and the Honey: Stories
by: Paul Yoon
3.71 avg rating — 1,195 ratings