Happy New Year! Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is our favorite books of 2023. I’ve come up with my top books overall, and then I’ve broken them out in a few categories (audiobooks, 2023 releases, by genre, debut novel).
- The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
- The Choice by Edith Eva Eger
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
- Chenneville by Paulette Jiles
Best by Audiobook:
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff, Foster by Claire Keegan, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry, Talking at Night by Claire Daverly
Best Historical Fiction:
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell, Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, Chenneville by Paulette Jiles, Lone Women by Victor LaValle, The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper
Best Nonfiction:
The Choice by Edith Eva Eger, What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo, The Last Girl by Nadia Murad, The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar, Savor by Fatima Ali
Best Speculative Fiction:
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry, Lone Women by Victor LaValle, Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torsz, The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean, Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Best Romance:
The Gentleman’s Gambit by Evie Dunmore, Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail and Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring-Blake, Mad About You by Mhairi Macfarlane, How to Walk Away by Katherine Center, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Favorite Debut Fiction:
Talking at Night by Claire Daverly, Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torsz, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Favorite 2023 releases:
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff, Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley, Chenneville by Paulette Jiles, Lone Women by Victor LaValle, Talking at Night by Claire Daverly
A few more I recommend:
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim, Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer, Heartstopper Vol.3 by Alice Oseman, And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, The Arsonist’s City by Hala Alyan, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez
I hope you find some good reads from this list! What were your favorites in 2023?
