THE 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF

2023
The fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that
entertained and enlightened us

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 The 272
By Rachel L. Swarns

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

by Nathan Thrall

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 A Living Remedy
by Nicole Chung

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 Above Ground
By Clint Smith

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 Absolution
By Alice McDermott

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 After Sappho
by Selby Wynn Schwartz

After the Funeral

by Tessa Hadley

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 All Souls
By Saskia Hamilton

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 All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby

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 Anansi's Gold
by Yepoka Yeebo

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 August Blue
by Deborah Levy

The Bee Sting

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 By Paul Murray

Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin

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 Biography of X
By Catherine Lacey

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 Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton

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 Blackouts
by Justin Torres

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 Chrome Valley
By Mahogany L. Browne

The Covenant of Water

By Abraham Verghese

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 Crook Manifesto
by Colson Whitehead

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 The Deadline
by Jill Lepore

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 Desertion
by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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 Doppelganger
by Naomi Klein

Dyscalculia
by Camonghne Felix

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 The End of Drum-Time
by Hanna Pylväinen

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 Fair Play
By Katie Barnes

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 Family Lore
by Elizabeth Acevedo

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 Fire Weather
by John Vaillant

From From

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 By Monica Youn

The Future
by Naomi Alderman

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 Ghost Music
by An Yu

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 The Good Life
by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz

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 The Great Reclamation
by Rachel Heng

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 The Great White Bard
by Farah Karim-Cooper

Greek Lessons
by Han Kang

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 The Guest
by Emma Cline

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 The Half Known Life
by Pico Iyer

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 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride

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 Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano

The Hive and the Honey

by Paul Yoon

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 Holding Pattern
By Jenny Xie

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 Holler, Child
by Latoya Watkins

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 How Not to Kill Yourself
by Clancy Martin

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 How to Say Babylon
By Safiya Sinclair

I Am Still With You

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 by Emmanuel Iduma

I Do Everything I'm Told

by Megan Fernandes

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 I Have Some Questions For You
by Rebecca Makkai

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 The Iliad
by Emily Wilson (translator)

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 I Love Russia
By Elena Kostyuchenko

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 Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck

King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig

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 Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward

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 Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
by Cleo Qian

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 Liliana’s Invincible Summer
by Cristina Rivera Garza

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 Lone Women
by Victor LaValle

The Male Gazed

By Manuel Betancourt

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 Master Slave Husband Wife
by Ilyon Woo

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 Mobility
by Lydia Kiesling

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 Mott Street
by Ava Chin

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 My Name Is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand

None of the Above

by Travis Alabanza

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 North Woods
by Daniel Mason

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 Nothing Special
by Nicole Flattery

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 Our Migrant Souls
by Héctor Tobar

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 Our Share of Night
by Mariana Enriquez

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 Owner of a Lonely Heart
by Beth Nguyen

Pageboy
by Elliot Page

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 Pineapple Street
by Jenny Jackson

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 The Postcard
by Anne Berest

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 Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond

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 The Rachel Incident
by Caroline O’Donoghue

Red Memory
by Tania Branigan

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 Ripe
by Sarah Rose Etter

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 River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer

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 Some People Need Killing
by Patricia Evangelista

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 Spare
by Prince Harry

The Talk
by Darrin Bell

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 Temple Folk
By Aaliyah Bilal

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 Terrace Story
by Hilary Leichter

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 Thin Skin
By Jenn Shapland

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 This Other Eden
by Paul Harding

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 The Three of Us
by Ore Agbaje-Williams

Thunderclap
By Laura Cumming

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 To Free the Captives
by Tracy K. Smith

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 Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett

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 Tremor
by Teju Cole

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 The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff

The Vegan
by Andrew Lipstein

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 Vengeance Is Mine
by Marie NDiaye

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 Victory City
by Salman Rushdie

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 The Wager
by David Grann

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 Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
by Tahir Hamut Izgil

Wandering Souls
by Cecile Pin

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 What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
by Claire Jiménez

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 What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
by Michiko Aoyama

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 When Crack Was King
by Donovan X. Ramsey

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 The Wren, the Wren
by Anne Enright

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 Y/N
by Esther Yi

Yellowface
by R.F. Kuang

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 You Could Make This Place Beautiful
by Maggie Smith

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 The Young Man
by Annie Ernaux

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