Year archive
Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2023, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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100 Morning Treats: With Muffins, Rolls, Biscuits, Sweet and Savory Breakfast Breads, and More by Sarah Kieffer appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954 by Marcelino Truong, translated by David Homel appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, comics & graphic novels, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A graphic memoir revisits the author's awkward but transformative middle-school trip through Europe.
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens by Raul Palma appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard by Devery S. Anderson appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Splash of Soy: Everyday Food from Asia by Lara Lee appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, young adult, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Above Ground by Clint Smith appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, staff picks, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Absolution by Alice McDermott appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, fiction, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather long, fiction, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather short, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, identity & culture, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees by Paul Tom, illustrated by Mélanie Baillairgé, translated by Arielle Aaronson appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled by Blythe Roberson appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An American Story by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dare Coulter appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, kids’ books, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather long, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling by Bricia Lopez with Javier Cabral appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, identity & culture, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World by Claire Jean Kim appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather long, nonfiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bao Family Cookbook: Recipes from the Eight Culinary Regions of China by Céline Chung and team, photos by Grégoire Kalt appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith, illustrated by Boulet appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, kids’ books, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beijing Sprawl by Xu Zechen, translated by Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamsen appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, short stories, essays & poetry, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bellies by Nicola Dinan appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Berlin by Bea Setton appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Big by Vashti Harrison appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, staff picks, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
In a desert institution, a young narrator keeps vigil beside dying Juan Gay and receives fragments of queer history. Redacted texts and photographs reconstruct distorted lives.
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2023 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, staff picks, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity by Ryan Donovan appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
