Best Books of 2023

We’re almost at the end of the year, and that means it’s time to select your last read(s) of 2023. We’ve curated a collection of books we’ve been hearing about all year, plus some recent releases we’re excited to read. Take a look through each category below, and find our recap of all of the best boooks of 2023 at the link below. What are you reading this month?

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Fiction

The Bee Sting : A Novel
by Paul Murray

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Chain Gang All Stars : A Novel
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Temple Folk
by Aaliyah Bilal

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Maame 
by Jessica George
Yellowface : A Reese's Book Club Pick
by R. F. Kuang
Land of Milk and Honey : A Novel
by C. Pam Zhang

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Nonfiction

Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
The Great Displacement : Climate Change and the Next American Migration
by Jake Bittle
Emperor of Rome : Ruling the Ancient Roman World
by Mary Beard

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The World : A Family History of Humanity
by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

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Historical Fiction

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store : A Novel
by James McBride
The Fraud : A Novel
by Zadie Smith
The Wind Knows My Name : A Novel
by Isabel Allende
Let Us Descend : A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Homecoming : A Historical Mystery
by Kate Morton
Crook Manifesto : A Novel
by Colson Whitehead

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Memoir/Biography

How to Say Babylon : A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair
King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult : A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
by Maria Bamford
The Talk
by Darrin Bell
Project 562 : Changing the Way We See Native America
by Matika Wilbur
Monsters : A Fan's Dilemma
by Claire Dederer

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Fantasy

Hell Bent : A Novel
by Leigh Bardugo
Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame
by Rebecca Yarros
Bookshops and Bonedust
by Travis Baldree
What the River Knows : A Novel
by Isabel Ibañez
A Day of Fallen Night : A Roots of Chaos Novel
by Samantha Shannon
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
by Heather Fawcett

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Science Fiction

System Collapse
by Martha Wells
The Future
by Naomi Alderman
Starter Villain
by John Scalzi
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
by Brandon Sanderson
Light Bringer : A Red Rising Novel
by Pierce Brown
The House at the End of the World
by Dean Koontz

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Thriller

Bright Young Women : A Novel
by Jessica Knoll
None of This Is True : A Novel
by Lisa Jewell
I Have Some Questions for You : A Novel
by Rebecca Makkai
The Housemaid's Secret
by Freida McFadden
The Only One Left : A Novel
by Riley Sager

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Horror

Don't Fear the Reaper
by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Share of Night : A Novel
by Mariana Enriquez
Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Holly
by Stephen King
Lone Women : A Novel
by Victor LaValle
How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix

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Romance

The Long Game : A Novel
by Elena Armas
Yours Truly
by Abby Jimenez
Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
by Ashley Herring Blake
Wildfire : A Novel
by Hannah Grace
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
by K. J. Charles
The Graham Effect : A Novel
by Elle Kennedy

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Cookbooks

Company : The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others
by Amy Thielen
Veg-Table : Recipes, Techniques, and Plant Science for Big-Flavored, Vegetable-Focused Meals
by Nik Sharma
Start Here : Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: a Cookbook
by Sohla El-Waylly
Snacking Bakes : Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More
by Yossy Arefi
Made in Taiwan : Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation (a Cookbook)
by Clarissa Wei
Baking Yesteryear : The Best Recipes from the 1900s to The 1980s
by B. Dylan Hollis

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Children’s

Something, Someday
by Amanda Gorman

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School Trip : A Graphic Novel
by Jerry Craft

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Taylor Swift: a Little Golden Book Biography
by Wendy Loggia

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Alma, Head to Toe/Alma, de Pies a Cabeza
by Juana Martinez-Neal
Miles Morales Suspended : A Spider-Man Novel
by Jason Reynolds
Big
by Vashti Harrison

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Young Adult

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
by Talia Hibbert
Warrior Girl Unearthed
by Angeline Boulley
Check and Mate
by Ali Hazelwood
The Brothers Hawthorne
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Davenports
by Krystal Marquis
One of Us Is Back
by Karen M. McManus

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