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The Most Recommended Books of 2023

We counted 6,196 entries from 139 sources in 2023. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride appeared on 20, 1 more than any other book.

A source counts once per book, whatever the result: a win, a shortlist place, or a list pick. We show books named by 3 or more sources. 2023 is the award or list year, not the publication year.

20 sources

  1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

19 sources

  1. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

  2. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

  3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

17 sources

  1. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

  2. The Fraud by Zadie Smith

16 sources

  1. How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

15 sources

  1. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

  2. Lone Women: A Novel by Victor LaValle

  3. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

14 sources

  1. North Woods by Daniel Mason

  2. Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

  3. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

13 sources

  1. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

  2. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

  3. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

12 sources

  1. All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel by S. A. Cosby

  2. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

  3. Blackouts by Justin Torres

  4. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

11 sources

  1. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer

10 sources

  1. Big by Vashti Harrison

  2. Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

  3. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

  4. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

  5. Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo

  6. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

  7. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

  8. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

  9. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

  10. The Talk by Darrin Bell

  11. This Other Eden by Paul Harding

  12. When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey

  13. Witness by Jamel Brinkley

9 sources

  1. Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

  2. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

  3. In Memoriam by Alice Winn

  4. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

  5. Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista

  6. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk

  7. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

  8. The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

  9. Victory City by Salman Rushdie

  10. When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

8 sources

  1. A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan

  2. Absolution by Alice McDermott

  3. Anansi's Gold by Yepoka Yeebo

  4. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

  5. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

  6. Loot by Tania James

  7. Mexikid by Pedro Martín

  8. Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar

  9. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

  10. The Guest by Emma Cline

  11. The Postcard by Anne Berest

  12. Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

  13. Wednesday’s Child: Stories by Yiyun Li

7 sources

  1. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall

  2. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  3. Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

  4. America Redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger

  5. Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop

  6. Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith

  7. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

  8. Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

  9. Monica by Daniel Clowes

  10. Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

  11. Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang

  12. Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

  13. Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park

  14. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

  15. The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

  16. The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut

  17. The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day

  18. The New Life by Tom Crewe

  19. The Skull by Jon Klassen

  20. Translation State by Ann Leckie

  21. Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

  22. Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye

  23. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: a Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

  24. We Were Once A Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6 sources

  1. A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes, Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

  2. An American Story by Kwame Alexander

  3. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang

  4. Chinese Menu by Grace Lin

  5. From From by Monica Youn

  6. Holler, Child by LaToya Watkins

  7. Holly by Stephen King

  8. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

  9. Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

  10. Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo

  11. Remember by Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade

  12. Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

  13. Shutter by Ramona Emerson

  14. Spare by Prince Harry

  15. Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter

  16. The 272 by Rachel L. Swarns

  17. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

  18. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

  19. The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland

  20. The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

  21. The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer

  22. The Iliad by Homer

  23. The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

  24. The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

  25. The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane

  26. The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

  27. The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

  28. Tremor by Teju Cole

  29. Wellness by Nathan Hill

  30. White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link and Shaun Tan

  31. Y/N by Esther Yi

5 sources

  1. A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung

  2. After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

  3. August Wilson by Patti Hartigan

  4. Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy and Janelle Washington

  5. Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

  6. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

  7. Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

  8. Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

  9. Family Meal by Bryan Washington

  10. Greek Lessons by Han Kang

  11. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

  12. Henry, Like Always by Jenn Bailey

  13. How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

  14. I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

  15. Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

  16. Impossible People by Julia Wertz

  17. Invisible Son by Kim Johnson

  18. Jumper by Jessica Lanan

  19. Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

  20. Mascot by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell

  21. My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott

  22. My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

  23. Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

  24. Pageboy by Elliot Page

  25. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

  26. Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson

  27. Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

  28. Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder

  29. Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

  30. Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow

  31. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

  32. Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

  33. Take What You Need by Idra Novey

  34. Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal

  35. The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

  36. The Future by Naomi Alderman

  37. The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

  38. The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper

  39. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

  40. The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards

  41. The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh

  42. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

  43. The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

  44. The Swifts by Beth Lincoln

  45. There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds

  46. This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor

  47. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

  48. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

  49. We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

  50. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

  51. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

  52. What An Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

  53. Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

  54. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

  55. You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

4 sources

  1. A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat

  2. A History of Burning by Janika Oza

  3. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell

  4. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

  5. After the Funeral and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley

  6. Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

  7. All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

  8. American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

  9. An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

  10. An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

  11. Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa

  12. Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave Art by Hannah Salyer

  13. Aniana del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez

  14. Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris

  15. Artificial by Amy Kurzweil

  16. August Blue by Deborah Levy

  17. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

  18. Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet

  19. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick

  20. Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves

  21. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley

  22. Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

  23. Day by Michael Cunningham

  24. Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

  25. Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

  26. Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

  27. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

  28. Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler

  29. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul

  30. Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

  31. Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor

  32. Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal

  33. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

  34. Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard

  35. Eve by Cat Bohannon

  36. Evergreen by Matthew Cordell

  37. Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam by Thien Pham

  38. For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome

  39. Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

  40. From Here by Luma Mufleh

  41. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

  42. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

  43. How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford

  44. How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin

  45. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

  46. I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

  47. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

  48. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin

  49. In Place of Fear by Catriona McPherson

  50. Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

  51. Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney

  52. Knockout by Sarah MacLean

  53. More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long

  54. Mott Street by Ava Chin

  55. Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homans

  56. My Head Has A Bellyache: More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-ups by Chris Harris

  57. My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom and Steph Littlebird

  58. My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder

  59. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

  60. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

  61. Once Upon A Book by Grace Lin

  62. Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman

  63. Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen

  64. Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark

  65. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

  66. Saints of the Household by Ari Tison

  67. Secret Identity by Alex Segura

  68. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

  69. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

  70. Spanish Is the Language of My Family by Michael Genhart

  71. Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport by Caren Stelson

  72. Starter Villain by John Scalzi

  73. Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  74. The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra

  75. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

  76. The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

  77. The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch

  78. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A Novel by Stephen Buoro

  79. The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle

  80. The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon

  81. The Islands by Dionne Irving

  82. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

  83. The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich

  84. The Maid by Nita Prose

  85. The Monkey Trial by Anita Sanchez

  86. The Parrot and the Igloo by David Lipsky

  87. The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett

  88. The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

  89. The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

  90. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

  91. The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

  92. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

  93. Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland

  94. Thunderclap by Laura Cumming

  95. To Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith

  96. Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

  97. What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

  98. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

  99. When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

  100. World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky

3 sources

  1. 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary by Don Brown

  2. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith

  3. A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

  4. A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

  5. A Death in Malta by Paul Caruana Galizia

  6. A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

  7. A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

  8. A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

  9. A House for Alice by Diana Evans

  10. A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors

  11. A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Ray Anthony Shepard

  12. A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

  13. Above Ground by Clint Smith

  14. Accountable: The True Story of A Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

  15. Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera

  16. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran

  17. Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees by Paul Tom

  18. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

  19. Ancient Night by David Álvarez

  20. Balladz by Sharon Olds

  21. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai

  22. Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron

  23. Biting the Hand by Julia Lee

  24. Black AF History by Michael Harriot

  25. Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

  26. Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

  27. Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem

  28. Brooms by Jasmine Walls

  29. Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah

  30. Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

  31. Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

  32. Chlorine by Jade Song

  33. Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara

  34. Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au

  35. Collision of Power by Martin Baron

  36. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust by Neal Shusterman

  37. Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

  38. Death By Bubble Tea by Jennifer J. Chow

  39. Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

  40. Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham

  41. Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor

  42. Disruptions by Steven Millhauser

  43. Easily Slip into Another World by Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards

  44. Elena Rides by Juana Medina

  45. Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson

  46. Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

  47. Everybody Knows: A Novel by Jordan Harper

  48. Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger

  49. Fear Is Just a Word by Azam Ahmed

  50. Five Moves of Doom by A. J. Devlin

  51. Flee North by Scott Shane

  52. Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

  53. Friends Beyond Measure by Lalena Fisher

  54. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

  55. Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

  56. Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story by Kate Clayborn

  57. Ghost Book by Remy Lai

  58. God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu

  59. Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon

  60. Going Infinite by Michael Lewis

  61. Gone Wolf by Amber McBride

  62. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

  63. Greenwild by Pari Thomson

  64. Happy Place by Emily Henry

  65. Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott

  66. High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez

  67. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

  68. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

  69. Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell

  70. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

  71. I'm From by Gary R. Gray Jr. and Oge Mora

  72. Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

  73. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park

  74. In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee

  75. In The Upper Country by Kai Thomas

  76. Into the Light by Mark Oshiro

  77. Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

  78. Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter by Aida Salazar and Molly Mendoza

  79. Just Like Grandma by Kim Rogers

  80. Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

  81. Ladies’ Lunch: And Other Stories by Lore Segal

  82. Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

  83. Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

  84. Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue

  85. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

  86. Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

  87. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru

  88. Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

  89. Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

  90. Maame by Jessica George

  91. Mage and the Endless Unknown by S. J. Miller

  92. Making More: How Life Begins by Katherine Roy

  93. Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman

  94. Mobility by Lydia Kiesling

  95. Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

  96. My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor

  97. My Work by Olga Ravn

  98. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

  99. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

  100. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

  101. Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

  102. Number Go up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

  103. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery

  104. Open Throat by Henry Hoke

  105. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

  106. Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

  107. Owlish by Dorothy Tse

  108. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler

  109. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris

  110. Papá's Magical Water-jug Clock by Jesús Trejo

  111. Promise Boys by Nick Brooks

  112. Promises of Gold by José Olivarez

  113. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

  114. Rainbow Shopping by Qing Zhuang

  115. Remembering by Xelena González

  116. Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

  117. Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll! by Tonya Bolden

  118. Ruby Lost and Found by Christina Li

  119. School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson

  120. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

  121. See the Ghost: Three Stories About Things You Cannot See by David LaRochelle

  122. She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

  123. Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

  124. Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson

  125. So to Speak by Terrance Hayes

  126. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy

  127. Sonic Life by Thurston Moore

  128. Spear by Nicola Griffith

  129. Spin by Rebecca Caprara

  130. Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly

  131. Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

  132. Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm

  133. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

  134. Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

  135. suddenly we by Evie Shockley

  136. Summer Is for Cousins by Rajani LaRocca

  137. Sundial by Catriona Ward

  138. That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown

  139. The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

  140. The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

  141. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie by Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal

  142. The Book of Turtles by Sy Montgomery

  143. The Deadline by Jill Lepore

  144. The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

  145. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World out of Balance by Dan Egan

  146. The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie

  147. The Dog of the North: A Novel by Elizabeth McKenzie

  148. The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A–Z by Tamar Adler

  149. The Exceptions by Kate Zernike

  150. The Faraway World by Patricia Engel

  151. The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made of by Kirsten W. Larson

  152. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

  153. The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

  154. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

  155. The Golden Gate by Amy Chua

  156. The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle

  157. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

  158. The Hospital Book by Lisa Brown

  159. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

  160. The House on via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

  161. The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

  162. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

  163. The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory by Tim Alberta

  164. The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel

  165. The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat

  166. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

  167. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

  168. The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

  169. The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks

  170. The Long Form by Kate Briggs

  171. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

  172. The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump

  173. The Next New Syrian Girl by Ream Shukairy

  174. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

  175. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green

  176. The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo

  177. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

  178. The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya

  179. The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

  180. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph

  181. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

  182. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer

  183. The Story of Gumluck the Wizard by Adam Rex

  184. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

  185. The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker

  186. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

  187. The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

  188. The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  189. The Young Man by Annie Ernaux

  190. Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

  191. There Will Be Fire by Rory Carroll

  192. They Hold the Line by Dan Paley

  193. Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke

  194. This Country by Navied Mahdavian

  195. This Is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara

  196. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes

  197. To 2040 by Jorie Graham

  198. To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

  199. To the Other Side by Erika Meza

  200. Too Small Tola Gets Tough by Atinuke

  201. Total Garbage by Rebecca Donnelly

  202. Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen

  203. Under a Veiled Moon by Karen Odden

  204. Unearthing by Kyo Maclear

  205. Unreliable Narrator by Aparna Nancherla

  206. Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

  207. We Are Here by Tami Charles

  208. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh

  209. We Still Belong by Christine Day

  210. West: A Translation by Paisley Rekdal

  211. Wifedom by Anna Funder

  212. Witch King by Martha Wells

  213. Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends by Kaz Windness

  214. You: The Story—A Writer’s Guide to Craft through Memory by Ruta Sepetys

  215. Zora, the Story Keeper by Ebony Wilkins

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