“What are the best Fiction & Literature books released in 2023?” We looked at 448 of the top Fiction & Literature books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 54 books, all appearing on 4 or more “Best Fiction & Literature” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 350+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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In each of these twelve stories, small events have huge consequences. Heloise’s father died in a car crash when she was alittle girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross …
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It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection …
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Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infat…
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April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart—and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbi…
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In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville’s impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, hi…
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In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight….
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The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lo…
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Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into th…
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In “The Boundary,” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker’s daughter, who nurses a wound from her family’s immigrant past. In “P’s Parties,” a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds …
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In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civi…
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Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope–she doesn’t even have the…
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Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighb…
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Teenage sisters Eve and Vera never imagined their summer vacation would be spent in the Arctic, tagging along on their mother’s scientific expedition. But there’s a lot about their lives lately that hasn’t been going as planned, and truth be told, th…
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In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring bank…
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Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both thei…
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In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often h…
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In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-str…
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A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In th…
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Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her l…
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2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But…
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New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of…
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Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai’s ghost won’t leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of hi…
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Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost thei…
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Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace in order to build a giant tiger automaton for Tipu’s sons, a gift to commemorate their return from Briti…
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Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A ci…
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Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of math…
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In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that homosexuality, which is a crime at the time, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London w…
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From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter’s squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the…
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When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty ’90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twen…
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In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters―from children to grandmothers to ghosts―live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking acti…
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American women―American wives―have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practic…
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At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson―former child prodigy, now in her thirties―walks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance….
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It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic …
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A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles….
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons…
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A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speaks out from a pulsi…
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When X―an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter―falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized…
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Ke…
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A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city….
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A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imag…
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up …
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A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Kei…
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Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous …
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From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart….
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Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own voice as …
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A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, someti…
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Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, …
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Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly …
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It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture sto…
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Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orle…
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held sec…
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance year…
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It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years….
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Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks….
55) A House for Alice – Diana Evans List: (Kirkus Review, The Guardian, Waterstones)
56) All the Sinners Bleed – S.A. Cosby List: (Electric Lit, Paste, Shepherd)
57) Beyond the Door of No Return – David Diop List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly)
58) Dearborn – Ghassan Zeineddine List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review, Powell’s)
59) Enter Ghost – Isabella Hammad List: (Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Washington Post)
60) Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros List: (Indigo, Paste, Shepherd)
61) Good Night, Irene – Luis Alberto Urrea List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review, Shelf Awareness)
62) Happy Place – Emily Henry List: (Indigo, NPR, Waterstones)
63) I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home – Lorrie Moore List: (LitHub, Powell’s, Waterstones)
64) Julia – Sandra Newman List: (Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Waterstones)
65) Mobility – Lydia Kiesling List: (Chicago Public Library, NPR, Powell’s)
66) Our Share of Night – Mariana Enriquez List: (Electric Lit, Powell’s, Washington Post)
67) Ripe – Sarah Rose Etter List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review, Powell’s)
68) Rouge – Mona Awad List: (Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Waterstones)
69) Small Mercies: A Detective Mystery – Dennis Lehane List: (NPR, Shepherd, Washington Post)
70) The Armor of Light – Ken Follett List: (Kirkus Review, Shepherd, Waterstones)
71) The Berry Pickers – Amanda Peters List: (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chicago Public Library)
72) The Five-Star Weekend – Elin Hilderbrand List: (Chicago Public Library, Goodreads, Kirkus Review)
73) The Future – Naomi Alderman List: (BookPage, Paste, Waterstones)
74) The Glutton – A.K. Blakemore List: (NYPL, The Guardian, Waterstones)
75) The House of Doors – Tan Twan Eng List: (Chicago Public Library, Financial Times, Washington Post)
76) The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery – Richard Osman List: (NPR, Shepherd, Shepherd)
77) The Laughter – Sonora Jha List: (NPR, Powell’s, Shelf Awareness)
78) The Vulnerables – Sigrid Nunez List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review, NPR)
79) Vengeance Is Mine – Marie NDiaye List: (Chicago Public Library, NYPL, Washington Post)
80) Wandering Souls – Cecile Pin List: (Chicago Public Library, The Guardian, Waterstones)
81) Bright Young Women – Jessica Knoll List: (Barnes & Noble, Kirkus Review)
82) Cahokia Jazz – Francis Spufford List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)
83) Chain Gang All Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah List: (Barnes & Noble, Paste)
84) Clytemnestra – Costanza Casati List: (Chicago Public Library, Waterstones)
85) Cuddy – Benjamin Myers List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)
86) Death Valley – Melissa Broder List: (Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily)
87) Evil Eye – Etaf Rum List: (Goodreads, NPR)
88) Family Lore – Elizabeth Acevedo List: (Chicago Public Library, Washington Post)
89) Fat Time and Other Stories – List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
90) Fire Rush – Jacqueline Crooks List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)
91) Good Women – List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
92) Hang the Moon – Jeannette Walls List: (Amazon, Barnes & Noble)
93) Holler, Child – Latoya Watkins List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
94) Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck List: (Chicago Public Library, LitHub)
95) Lady Tan’s Circle of Women – Lisa See List: (Amazon, Shepherd)
96) Learned by Heart – Emma Donoghue List: (Shepherd, Waterstones)
97) Lucky Dogs – Helen Schulman List: (Kirkus Review, Oprah Daily)
98) Lucky Red – List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
99) Maame – Jessica George List: (Chicago Public Library, Goodreads)
100) Mrs. S – K. Patrick List: (Electric Lit, Waterstones)
101) My Work – List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
102) Open Throat – Henry Hoke List: (Chicago Public Library, Washington Post)
103) Our Strangers – Lydia Davis List: (Chicago Public Library, Financial Times)
104) Penance – Eliza Clark List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)
105) Pomegranate – Helen Elaine Lee List: (Amazon, Chicago Public Library)
106) Promise – Christi Nogle List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
107) Prophet Song – Paul Lynch List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)
108) Romantic Comedy – Curtis Sittenfeld List: (NPR, Waterstones)
109) Shark Heart – Emily Habeck List: (Goodreads, Shelf Awareness)
110) Shubeik Lubeik – Deena Mohamed List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
111) Small Worlds – Caleb Azumah Nelson List: (Publishers Weekly, Waterstones)
112) So Late in the Day – Claire Keegan List: (Chicago Public Library, Waterstones)
113) Soldier Sailor – Claire Kilroy List: (Financial Times, The Guardian)
114) Straw Dogs of the Universe – Ye Chun List: (Chicago Public Library, Washington Post)
115) Take What You Need – Idra Novey List: (Los Angeles Times, NPR)
116) Temple Folk – Aaliyah Bilal List: (Chicago Public Library, NPR)
117) The Collected Regrets of Clover – Mikki Brammer List: (Goodreads, NPR)
118) The End of Drum-Time – Hanna Pylväinen List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
119) The Faraway World – Patricia Engel List: (Chicago Public Library, Washington Post)
120) The Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon List: (Kirkus Review, NPR)
121) The Happy Couple – Naoise Dolan List: (NPR, Waterstones)
122) The House on Via Gemito – Domenico Starnone List: (Kirkus Review, Washington Post)
123) The Iliad – Emily Wilson List: (Chicago Public Library, Washington Post)
124) The Librarianist – Patrick deWitt List: (NPR, Waterstones)
125) The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece – Tom Hanks, illustrated by R.Sikoryak List: (NPR, Waterstones)
126) The Most Secret Memory of Men – Mohamed Mbougar Sarr List: (Chicago Public Library, Washington Post)
127) The Museum of Failures – Thrity Umrigar List: (Book Riot, NPR)
128) The Museum of Human History – Rebekah Bergman List: (Kirkus Review, Powell’s)
129) The New Earth – Jess Row List: (Kirkus Review, NPR)
130) The People Who Report More Stress – Alejandro Varela List: (Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly)
131) The Postcard – Anne Berest List: (Chicago Public Library, Shepherd)
132) The River We Remember – William Kent Krueger List: (Amazon, Shepherd)
133) The Secret Book of Flora Lea – Patti Callahan Henry List: (Book Riot, Shepherd)
134) The Stolen Coast – Dwyer Murphy List: (Kirkus Review, NPR)
135) The Sun Walks Down – Fiona McFarlane List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
136) The True Love Experiment – Christina Lauren List: (NPR, Shepherd)
137) The Wind Knows My Name – Isabel Allende List: (NPR, Waterstones)
138) The Wishing Game – Meg Shaffer List: (Goodreads, Shepherd)
139) The Wolves of Eternity – Karl Ove Knausgaard List: (NPR, Waterstones)
140) The World and All That It Holds – Aleksandar Hemon List: (Chicago Public Library, Washington Post)
141) This Is Salvaged – Vauhini Vara List: (NYPL, Publishers Weekly)
142) Warrior Girl Unearthed – Angeline Boulley List: (NPR, Shepherd)
143) What You Are Looking for is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama List: (Chicago Public Library, Waterstones)
144) When Trying to Return Home – List: (Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Review)
145) Y/N – Esther Yi List: (Chicago Public Library, NPR)
146) A Council of Dolls – List: (Chicago Public Library)
147) A Cowardly Woman No More – Ellen Cooney List: (Publishers Weekly)
148) A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon List: (Kirkus Review)
149) A Door in the Dark – Scott Reintgen List: (Shepherd)
150) A First Time for Everything – Dan Santat List: (Shepherd)
151) A Girl Called Samson – Amy Harmon List: (Shepherd)
152) A Haunting on the Hill – Elizabeth Hand List: (Washington Post)
153) A Killing of Innocents – Deborah Crombie List: (Shepherd)
154) A Lady’s Guide to Scandal – Sophie Irwin List: (Waterstones)
155) A Line in the Sand – Kevin Powers List: (Kirkus Review)
156) A Love By Design – Elizabeth Everett List: (Shepherd)
157) A NEW RACE OF MEN FROM HEAVEN – Chaitali Sen List: (Kirkus Review)
158) A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder – Dianne Freeman List: (Shepherd)
159) A Perfect Vintage – Chelsea Fagan List: (NPR)
160) A Quitter’s Paradise – Elysha Chang List: (Electric Lit)
161) A Shadow in Moscow – Katherine Reay List: (Shepherd)
162) A Spell of Good Things – Ayobami Adebayo List: (NPR)
163) A Viscount’s Vengeance – Edie Cay List: (Shepherd)
164) Abraham Verghese – Grove List: (New Yorker)
165) Absolutely and Forever – Rose Tremain List: (Waterstones)
166) After Sappho – Selby Wynn Schwartz List: (Washington Post)
167) Alba de Céspedes – Astra List: (New Yorker)
168) Alchemy of a Blackbird – Claire McMillan List: (Book Riot)
169) Alice Winn – Knopf List: (New Yorker)
170) America Fantastica – Tim O’Brien List: (Shelf Awareness)
171) An Island Princess Starts a Scandal – Adriana Herrera List: (Kirkus Review)
172) ANA MARÍA AND THE FOX – Liana De la Rosa List: (Kirkus Review)
173) Andrew Ridker – Viking List: (New Yorker)
174) Anne Enright – Norton List: (New Yorker)
175) Atalanta – Jennifer Saint List: (Waterstones)
176) Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi – Gillian Flynn List: (New Yorker)
177) Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ – Knopf List: (New Yorker)
178) Barbara Isn’t Dying – Alina Bronsky (translated by Tim Mohr) List: (Washington Post)
179) Bariloche – Andrés Neuman List: (Publishers Weekly)
180) Battle Song – Ian Ross List: (Shepherd)
181) Baumgartner – Paul Auster List: (Waterstones)
182) Before We Say Goodbye – Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi List: (Waterstones)
183) Beijing Sprawl – Xu Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamsen List: (NPR)
184) Ben Okri – Other Press List: (New Yorker)
185) Benji Nate – Drawn & Quarterly List: (New Yorker)
186) Berlin – Bea Setton List: (NPR)
187) Bernardo Zannoni – New York Review Books List: (New Yorker)
188) Birth Canal – Dias Novita Wuri List: (NPR)
189) Bisi Adjapon – HarperVia List: (New Yorker)
190) BLADE OF DREAM – Daniel Abraham List: (Kirkus Review)
191) BLAZE ME A SUN – Christoffer Carlsson List: (Kirkus Review)
192) Blood of the Virgin – Sammy Harkham List: (Chicago Public Library)
193) Brandon Taylor – Riverhead List: (New Yorker)
194) BREAKING AND ENTERING – Don Gillmor List: (Kirkus Review)
195) Brutes – Dizz Tate List: (NPR)
196) Business or Pleasure – Rachel Lynn Solomon List: (Kirkus Review)
197) Caret – List: (The Guardian)
198) Carmen Boullosa – Deep Vellum List: (New Yorker)
199) Catherine Chidgey – Europa List: (New Yorker)
200) Check & Mate – Ali Hazelwood List: (NPR)
201) Clarence Major – At Bay Press List: (New Yorker)
202) Close to Home – Michael Magee List: (Waterstones)
203) CODE OF THE HILLS – Chris Offutt List: (Kirkus Review)
204) Code Red – Kyle Mills List: (Shepherd)
205) Cold People – Tom Rob Smith List: (Waterstones)
206) Colin Winnette – Soft Skull List: (New Yorker)
207) Commitment – Mona Simpson List: (Los Angeles Times)
208) Company – Shannon Sanders List: (Publishers Weekly)
209) Confidence – Rafael Frumkin List: (Washington Post)
210) Cousins – Aurora Venturini, translated by Kit Maude List: (NPR)
211) Cursed Bread – Sophie Mackintosh List: (Waterstones)
212) Dana Jeri Maier – Andrews McMeel List: (New Yorker)
213) Dead Mountain – Douglas Preston List: (Shepherd)
214) Devil Makes Three – Ben Fountain List: (Washington Post)
215) Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? – List: (Chicago Public Library)
216) Eastbound – Maylis de Kerangal List: (Publishers Weekly)
217) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett List: (Shepherd)
218) Empty Theatre – Jac Jemc List: (Chicago Public Library)
219) Essex Dogs – Dan Jones List: (Kirkus Review)
220) Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare – Megan Kamalei Kakimoto List: (Powell’s)
221) Every Man a King – Walter Mosley List: (Kirkus Review)
222) Exodus – David Moody List: (Shepherd)
223) Fireworks Every Night – Beth Raymer List: (Oprah Daily)
224) Forget Me Not – Julie Soto List: (NPR)
225) Forgive Me Not – Jennifer Baker List: (Electric Lit)
226) GAMES AND RITUALS – Katherine Heiny List: (Kirkus Review)
227) Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story – Kate Clayborn List: (Kirkus Review)
228) Girl Juice – Benji Nate List: (Chicago Public Library)
229) Girlfriends – Emily Zhou List: (NPR)
230) Glassworks – Olivia Wolfgang-Smith List: (NPR)
231) Go as a River – Shelley Read List: (Waterstones)
232) Gone to the Wolves – John Wray List: (NPR)
233) Good Material – Dolly Alderton List: (Waterstones)
234) GREEN FOR DANGER – Christianna Brand List: (Kirkus Review)
235) Greenwild: The World Behind The Door – Pari Thomson List: (Shepherd)
236) Gunflower – List: (The Guardian)
237) He Who Drowned the World – Shelley Parker-Chan List: (Shepherd)
238) HEART SUTRA – Yan Lianke List: (Kirkus Review)
239) Hello Stranger – Katherine Center List: (Shepherd)
240) Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown – Alison Weir List: (Waterstones)
241) Herc – Phoenicia Rogerson List: (Waterstones)
242) Hestia Strikes a Match – Christine Grillo List: (NPR)
243) Hidden Beneath – Barbara Ross List: (Shepherd)
244) Holding Pattern – Jenny Xie List: (Electric Lit)
245) Holly – Stephen King List: (Shepherd)
246) Homecoming – Kate Morton List: (Shepherd)
247) House on via Gemito – List: (Chicago Public Library)
248) How to Build A Boat – List: (Chicago Public Library)
249) HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE – Shaun Tan List: (Kirkus Review)
250) Hula – Jasmin Iolani Hakes List: (Shepherd)
251) Hungry Ghosts – Kevin Jared Hosein List: (Waterstones)
252) I Will Greet the Sun Again – Khashayar J. Khabushani List: (Washington Post)
253) Icebreaker – Hannah Grace List: (Waterstones)
254) Idlewild – James Frankie Thomas List: (NPR)
255) If I Survive You – Jonathan Escoffery List: (Waterstones)
256) Immortal Longings – Chloe Gong List: (Kirkus Review)
257) Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim – Patricia Park List: (NPR)
258) In Ascension – Martin MacInnes List: (Financial Times)
259) Infinity Gate – M.R. Carey List: (Kirkus Review)
260) Invisible Son – Kim Johnson List: (NPR)
261) JANA GOES WILD – Farah Heron List: (Kirkus Review)
262) Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind – Molly McGhee List: (Electric Lit)
263) Juliette or, the Ghosts Return in the Spring – Camille Jourdy, translated by Aleshia Jensen List: (NPR)
264) Juno Loves Legs: A Novel – Karl Geary List: (Amazon)
265) Kala – Colin Walsh List: (The Guardian)
266) Knockout – Sarah MacLean List: (Kirkus Review)
267) Lady MacBethad – Isabelle Schuler List: (Waterstones)
268) Landscapes – Christine Lai List: (NPR)
269) Las Madres – Esmeralda Santiago List: (Shepherd)
270) LIES AND SORCERY – Deena Mohamed List: (Kirkus Review)
271) Lies We Sing to the Sea – Sarah Underwood List: (Shepherd)
272) Like the Appearance of Horses – Andrew Krivak List: (Library Journal)
273) LIQUID SNAKES – Stephen Kearse List: (Kirkus Review)
274) Looking Glass Sound – Catriona Ward List: (Shepherd)
275) Lord Jim at Home – List: (The Guardian)
276) Love and Other Flight Delays – Denise Williams List: (NPR)
277) Love Theoretically – Ali Hazelwood List: (Waterstones)
278) Loved and Missed – Susie Boyt List: (Los Angeles Times)
279) Lunar Love – Lauren Kung Jessen List: (NPR)
280) Marry Me by Midnight – Felicia Grossman List: (Kirkus Review)
281) Marvelous – Molly Greeley List: (Shepherd)
282) Mascot – Charles Waters and Traci Sorell List: (NPR)
283) Mater 2-10 – Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine List: (NPR)
284) Mild Vertigo – Mieko Kanai List: (Los Angeles Times)
285) Monica – Daniel Clowes List: (Kirkus Review)
286) Monstrilio – Gerardo Samano Cordova List: (Book Riot)
287) Moon of the Turning Leaves – Waubgeshig Rice List: (Indigo)
288) Moonrise Over New Jessup – Jamila Minnicks List: (Electric Lit)
289) Morgan Is My Name – Sophie Keetch List: (Paste)
290) MORTAL FOLLIES – Alexis Hall List: (Kirkus Review)
291) Mother Hens: Signed Edition – Sophie McCartney List: (Waterstones)
292) Mr. Texas – Lawrence Wright List: (NPR)
293) Much Ado About Nada – Uzma Jalaluddin List: (NPR)
294) Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide – Rupert Holmes List: (Shelf Awareness)
295) My Father’s House – Joseph O’Connor List: (Washington Post)
296) My Name Is Iris – Brando Skyhorse List: (Washington Post)
297) Night Will Find You – Julia Heaberlin List: (Kirkus Review)
298) Nineteen Steps – Millie Bobby Brown List: (Waterstones)
299) No One Dies Yet – Kobby Ben Ben List: (The Guardian)
300) No One Prayed Over Their Graves – Khaled Khalifa List: (Washington Post)
301) No Two Persons – Erica Bauermeister List: (Shepherd)
302) None of This is True – Lisa Jewell List: (Shepherd)
303) Normal Rules Don’t Apply – Kate Atkinson List: (Waterstones)
304) Number Go Up – Zeke Faux List: (Chicago Public Library)
305) Old Babes in the Wood – Margaret Atwood List: (Waterstones)
306) On a Woman’s Madness – Astrid Roemer, translated by Lucy Scott List: (NPR)
307) On the Savage Side – Tiffany McDaniel List: (Waterstones)
308) Once More With Feeling – Elissa Sussman List: (NPR)
309) ONE LAST KILL – Robert Dugoni List: (Kirkus Review)
310) Only The Beautiful – Susan Meissner List: (Shepherd)
311) Orbital – List: (The Guardian)
312) Ordinary Human Failings – Megan Nolan List: (Waterstones)
313) Palace of Shadows – Ray Celestin List: (Waterstones)
314) Pay As You Go – Eskor David Johnson List: (NPR)
315) People Collide – Isle McElroy List: (Electric Lit)
316) Prophet – Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché List: (Shelf Awareness)
317) Proud Pink Sky – Redfern Jon Barrett List: (Shepherd)
318) Rebellion – Eagles of the Empire – Simon Scarrow List: (Waterstones)
319) Return to Valetto – Dominic Smith List: (BookPage)
320) Rewrites of the Heart – Terry Newman List: (Shepherd)
321) Reykjavík – Ragnar Jónasson List: (Kirkus Review)
322) Roaming – Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki List: (Chicago Public Library)
323) Rootless – Krystle Zara Appiah List: (NPR)
324) Ruby Lost and Found – Christina Li List: (NPR)
325) Scorched Grace – Margot Douaihy List: (Shepherd)
326) Sea Change – Gina Chung List: (Electric Lit)
327) Sharpe’s Command: Exclusive Edition – Bernard Cornwell List: (Waterstones)
328) Shy – Max Porter List: (Waterstones)
329) Sidle Creek – Jolene McIlwain List: (NPR)
330) Simon Sort of Says – Erin Bow List: (Shepherd)
331) Sing Her Down – Ivy Pochoda List: (NPR)
332) Sisters under the Rising Sun – Heather Morris List: (Waterstones)
333) Small Animals Caught in Traps – C.B. Bernard List: (Shepherd)
334) Somebody’s Fool – Richard Russo List: (Shepherd)
335) Something Wild & Wonderful – Anita Kelly List: (NPR)
336) Standing in the Shadows – Peter Robinson List: (Shepherd)
337) STERLING KARAT GOLD – Isabel Waidner List: (Kirkus Review)
338) Still Born – List: (Chicago Public Library)
339) Stolen – Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles List: (NPR)
340) Study for Obedience – Sarah Bernstein List: (Waterstones)
341) Sun House – David James Duncan List: (Shepherd)
342) Sunshine Nails – Mai Nguyen List: (NPR)
343) Sunshine: A Graphic Novel – Jarrett J. Krosoczka List: (NPR)
344) Swamp Story – Dave Barry List: (Shepherd)
345) Swan Light – Phoebe Rowe List: (Shepherd)
346) Symphony of Secrets – Brendan Slocumb List: (NPR)
347) Tackle! – Jilly Cooper List: (Waterstones)
348) Talking at Night – Claire Daverley List: (Waterstones)
349) Thar She Blows – Susan Emshwiller List: (Shepherd)
350) The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi – Shannon Chakraborty List: (Kirkus Review)
351) The Adversary: A Novel – Michael Crummey List: (Indigo)
352) THE APARTMENT – Ana Menéndez List: (Kirkus Review)
353) The Bandit Queens – Parini Shroff List: (Shepherd)
354) The Bookbinder – Pip Williams List: (Shepherd)
355) The Burnout – Sophie Kinsella List: (Waterstones)
356) The Celebrants – Steven Rowley List: (Goodreads)
357) The Circle – Katherena Vermette List: (Indigo)
358) The Coiled Serpent – List: (The Guardian)
359) The Collector – Daniel Silva List: (Shepherd)
360) The Connellys of County Down – Tracey Lange List: (Goodreads)
361) THE CURIOUS LIVES OF NONPROFIT MARTYRS – George Singleton List: (Kirkus Review)
362) The Deep Sky – Yume Kitasei List: (Kirkus Review)
363) The Defector – Chris Hadfield List: (Indigo)
364) The Detective Up Late – Adrian McKinty List: (Shepherd)
365) The Drift – C.J. Tudor List: (Shepherd)
366) The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac – Louise Kennedy List: (NPR)
367) The Figurine – Victoria Hislop List: (Waterstones)
368) The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa – Stephen Buoro List: (NPR)
369) The Fragile Threads of Power – V. E. Schwab List: (Shepherd)
370) The Ghost Ship: Signed Edition – Kate Mosse List: (Waterstones)
371) The Ghost Theatre – List: (The Guardian)
372) The God of Endings – Jacqueline Holland List: (Barnes & Noble)
373) The God of Good Looks – Breanne Mc Ivor List: (NPR)
374) The Good, The Bad and The History – Jodi Taylor List: (Shepherd)
375) The Guest Lecture – Martin Riker List: (NPR)
376) The Guilty One – Bill Schweigart List: (Shepherd)
377) The Hive and the Honey – Paul Yoon List: (NYPL)
378) The Invisible Hour – Alice Hoffman List: (Goodreads)
379) The Kamogawa Food Detectives – Hisashi Kashiwai List: (Waterstones)
380) The Last Chance Cowboy (Colorado Cowboys, #5) – Jody Hedlund List: (Shepherd)
381) The Last Orphan – Gregg Hurwitz List: (Shepherd)
382) The Last Remains – Elly Griffiths List: (Shepherd)
383) The Last Tale of the Flower Bride – Roshani Chokshi List: (Paste)
384) The Leftover Woman – Jean Kwok List: (Indigo)
385) The Liberators – E. J. Koh List: (Powell’s)
386) The Light at the End of the World – Siddhartha Deb List: (Library Journal)
387) The List – Yomi Adegoke List: (Waterstones)
388) The Lock-Up – John Banville List: (Shepherd)
389) The Lonely Hearts Book Club – Lucy Gilmore List: (NPR)
390) The Longmire Defense – Craig Johnson List: (Shepherd)
391) THE LOST AMERICANS – Christopher Bollen List: (Kirkus Review)
392) The Lost Library – Rebecca Stead List: (Shepherd)
393) The Low Road – Katharine Quarmby List: (Shepherd)
394) The Madstone – Elizabeth Crook List: (Washington Post)
395) The Memory of Animals – Claire Fuller List: (Waterstones)
396) The Mistress Of Bhatia House – Sujata Massey List: (Shepherd)
397) The New Naturals – Gabriel Bump List: (Washington Post)
398) The Pole and Other Stories – JM Coetzee List: (Financial Times)
399) The Promise of Plague Wolves – Coy Hall List: (Shepherd)
400) The Queen of Dirt Island – Donal Ryan List: (NPR)
401) The Reformatory – Tananarive Due List: (Washington Post)
402) The Road to Dalton – Shannon Bowring List: (NPR)
403) The Running Grave – Robert Galbraith List: (Shepherd)
404) The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera List: (Shepherd)
405) The Scarlet Papers – Matthew Richardson List: (Shepherd)
406) The Seventh Son – Sebastian Faulks List: (Waterstones)
407) The Snow Hare – Paula Lichtarowicz List: (Waterstones)
408) The Society of Shame – Jane Roper List: (Shepherd)
409) The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret – Nev March List: (Shepherd)
410) The Starfish Sisters – Barbara O’Neal List: (Shepherd)
411) The Sunset Crowd – Karin Tanabe List: (Washington Post)
412) The Temple of Fortuna – The Wolf Den Trilogy – Elodie Harper List: (Waterstones)
413) The Things We Do to Our Friends – Heather Darwent List: (Shepherd)
414) The Three Graces – Amanda Craig List: (Shepherd)
415) The Ugly Truth – L.C. North List: (Shepherd)
416) The Villa – Rachel Hawkins List: (Paste)
417) The Wake-Up Call – Beth O’Leary List: (Waterstones)
418) The Way of the Bear – Anne Hillerman List: (Shepherd)
419) The Whispering Muse – Laura Purcell List: (Waterstones)
420) The Wicked Unseen – Gigi Griffis List: (Shepherd)
421) The Will of the Many – James Islington List: (Shepherd)
422) The Witching Tide – Margaret Meyer List: (Waterstones)
423) The World Wasn’t Ready for You – Justin C. Key List: (Kirkus Review)
424) These Burning Stars – Bethany Jacobs List: (Kirkus Review)
425) This Bird Has Flown – Susanna Hoffs List: (NPR)
426) This Is Not Miami – List: (Kirkus Review)
427) Titanium Noir – Nick Harkaway List: (Shepherd)
428) Today Tonight Forever – Madeline Kay Sneed List: (NPR)
429) Translation State – Ann Leckie List: (Kirkus Review)
430) Unfortunately Yours – Vine Mess – Tessa Bailey List: (Waterstones)
431) Up With the Sun – Thomas Mallon List: (Washington Post)
432) Vampires of El Norte – Isabel Cañas List: (Book Riot)
433) Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers – Jesse Q. Sutanto List: (Shepherd)
434) Vintage Contemporaries – Dan Kois List: (Washington Post)
435) We Are a Haunting – Tyriek White List: (Electric Lit)
436) We Are the Crisis – Cadwell Turnbull List: (Kirkus Review)
437) WE MUST NOT THINK OF OURSELVES – Lauren Grodstein List: (Kirkus Review)
438) Weirdo: Signed Edition – Sara Pascoe List: (Waterstones)
439) Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop – Hwang Bo-reum List: (Waterstones)
440) Whale – List: (Chicago Public Library)
441) Whalefall – Daniel Kraus List: (Shelf Awareness)
442) What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez – Claire Jiménez List: (Chicago Public Library)
443) Where There Was Fire – John Manuel Arias List: (Electric Lit)
444) White Cat, Black Dog – Kelly Link List: (Kirkus Review)
445) Wifedom – Anna Funder List: (Shepherd)
446) Wolves of Winter – Essex Dogs Series – Dan Jones List: (Waterstones)
447) You, Again – Kate Goldbeck List: (NPR)
448) YOUR LOVE IS NOT GOOD – Johanna Hedva List: (Kirkus Review)
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