Amazon Editors

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano	All the Sinners Bleed by S A Cosby	Generations by Jean M Twenge	Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
You Have to be Prepared to Die Before You Can Live by Paul Kix	Weyward by Emilia Hart	Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee	Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yaros
Age of Vice by Deepta Kapoor	The Wager by David Grann	The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese	The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Happy Place by Emily Henry	King by Jonathan Eig	Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See	Ultraprocessed People by Chris van Tullekan
Symphony of Secrets by Brendon Slocumb	Small Mercies by Denis Lehane	Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley	Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Yellowface by R F Kuang	The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng	Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond	Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
The Fraud by Zadie Smith	5 Ingredients Mediterranean by Jamie Oliver	The Creative Act by Rick Rubin	Strong Female Character by Ruby Fern
My Husband by Maud Ventura	Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

Barnes and Noble Best Fiction and Non Fiction

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett	Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll	Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano	Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls
Yellowface by RF Kuang	The God of Endings by by Jacqueline Holland	I Have some Questions For You by  Rebecca Makkai	The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters	Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky	Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein	Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love	Monsters by Claire Dederer	American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal by Neil King Jr.
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’ by Héctor Tobar	To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith	A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination by Mary Haverstick

BBC Culture

The Fraud by Zadie Smith	The Bee Sting by Paul Murray	North Woods by Daniel Mason	The Glutton by A K Blakemore
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett	Hangman by Maya Bingman	The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright	After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
August Blue by Deborah Levy	The East Indian by Brinda Charry	Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead	Mrs S by K Patrick
The Postcard by Anne Berest (translated by Tina Kover)	Victory City by Salman Rushdie	Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton	Shy by Max Porter
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson	Maame by Jessica George	The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley	Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore	Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood	Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry	This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

BookList Queen

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano	Evil Eye by Etaf Rum	Yellowface by R F Kuang	The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Before we Were Innocent by Ella Berman	Tom Lake by Ann Patchett	Maame by Jessica George	The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Connolley’s of County Down by Tracey Lange	Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson	The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand	The Last Word by Taylor Adams
The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda	All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham	The Whispers by Ashley Audrain	Dark Corners by Megan Goldin
The River we Remember by William Kent Kreuger	Beyond that, The Sea by Laura Spence-Ash	Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See	River Sing me Home by Eleanor Shearer
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride	Spare by Prince Harry	Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman	Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
The Wager by David Grann	Outlive by Peter Attia	Happy Place by Emily Henry

Esquire

Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk	A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung	Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond	The Wager by David Grann	The Possibility of Life by Jaime Green	The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein	Yellowface by RF Kuang	Biography of X by Catherine Lacey	Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li	Absolution by Alice McDermott	Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil	America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien
Saving Time by Jenny Odell	The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor	Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead	Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

The Guardian

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray	Prophet’s Song by Paul Lynch	Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Fraud by Zadie Smith	Tremor by Teju Cole	August Blue by Deborah Levy
Blackouts by Justin Torres	Cuddy by Benjamin Myers	The Long Form by Kate Briggs
Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks	Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin	Kala by Colin Walsh
The Glutton by AK Blakemore	The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff	Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman	Victory City by Salman Rushdie	The New Life by Tom Crewe
Julia by Sandra Newman	Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke

Caffe Nero Awards

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray	Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton	The New Life by Tom Crew
The Swifts by Beth Lincoln	Strong Female Character by Fern Brady	Undercurrent by Natasha Carthew
Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn	Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan	Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell

LoveReading

The Door to Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn	Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead	Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey	Winter Lights by Deborah Jenkins
Gas Light by Femi Kayode	Death Valley by Melissa Broder	Decolonising my Body by Afua Hirsch	The Winter Spirits by Bridget Collins
Palace of Shadows by Ray Celestin	Eve by Cat Bohannon	Past Lying by Val McDermid	Bedside Companion for Food Lovers by Jane McMorland Hunter
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff	Joe Nuthin’s Guide to Life by Helen Fisher	Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain	North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Pit by Peter Papathanasiou	Before we Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi	The Words of Kings and Prophets by Shauna Lawless	The Crash by Robert Peston
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman	The Secret Hours by Mick Herron	The Seventh Son by Sebastien Faulkes	The Land of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Winter List by S G MacLean	In Bloom by Eva Verda	Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem Khan	The Applicant by Nazli Koca
The Hollow Tree by Tim Leach	Three Fires by Denise Mina	A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh	The List by Yomi Adegoke
My Husband by Maud Ventura	Earth by Chris Packham	Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen	The Housekeepers by Alex May
The Blood of Others by Graham Hurley	Zero Kill by M K Hill	Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan	The God of Good Looks by Breanne McIvor
The Illusions by Liz Hyder	The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon	Rural by Rebecca Smith	The Devil’s Playground by Craig Russell
The Fallen by John Sutherland	The People Watcher by Sam Lloyd	An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb by Louise Wolhuter	The Summer Skies by Jenny Colgan
Mrs S by K. Patrick	Radical Love by Neil Blackmore	The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone Audrey Burges	Blue Machine by Helen Czerski
Vita and the Birds by Polly Crosby	The Last Dance by Mark Billingham	The Ghost Theatre Mat Osman	Atlas of Imagined Cities by Matt Brown
When things are alive, they Hum by Hannah Bent	Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe	Sparrow by James Hynes	Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Maiden by Kate Foster	Happy Place by Emily Henry	Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks	Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
Maame by Jessica George	Weyward by Emilia Hart	The Drift by CJ Tudor	Julia by Sandra Newman
The Fraud by Zadie Smith	Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes	Vladimir by Julia May Jonas	Demon Copperhead by Barbara kingsolver
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell	Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

The New Yorker

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray	Biography of X by Catherine Lacey	Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland	A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall	Fear Is Just a Word by Azam Ahmed
Fire Weather by John Vaillant	The Fraud by Zadie Smith	The Guest by Emma Cline
I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore	King: A Life by Jonathan Eig	Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe	Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri	Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

New York Public Library

Above Ground by Clint Smith	The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi By Shannon Chakraborty	Against the Currant By Olivia Matthews	Age of Vice By Deepti Kapoor
All the Beauty in the World By Patrick Bringley	Bad Kids By Zijin Chen	The Bee Sting By Paul Murray	Biting the Hand by Julia Lee
Black Observatory: Poems By Christopher Brean Murray	Blackouts By Justin Torres	Chain-Gang All-Stars By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah	The Deep Sky By Yume Kitasei
Do a Powerbomb By Daniel Warren Johnson	Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 By Charles Soule	Eve By Cat Bohannon	Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone By Benjamin Stevenson
Everything Is Fine, Vol. 1 By Mike Birchall	A Fever in the Heartland By Timothy Egan	The Glutton By A.K. Blakemore	The Great Displacement By Jake Bittle
A Guest in the House By Emily Carroll	The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store By James McBride	The Hive and the Honey: Stories By Paul Yoon	An Island Princess Starts a Scandal By Adriana Herrera
The Kingdom of Surfaces By Sally Wen Mao	Knockout By Sarah MacLean	Land of Milk and Honey By C Pam Zhang	Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century By Adrian Matejka
The Last One By Will Dean	The Man in the McIntosh Suit By Rina Ayuyang	The Maniac By Benjamín Labatut	Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers By Jesse Q. Sutanto
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories By Kelly Link

Obama’s Best Books

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride	The Maniac by Benjamin Labutut	Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond	How to say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
The Wager by David Grann	Chip War by Chris Miller	The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff	Humanly Possible by Sarah Blakemore
King by Jonathan Eig	The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese	The Best Minds by Jonathan Miller	All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby
The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory by Tim Alberta	Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangalista	This Other Eden by Paul Harding

Oprah Best of Books

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim	Absolution by Alice McDermott	Heaven and Earth Grocery by James McBride	Lucky Dogs by Helen Schulman
The Last Animal by Rachel Ausubel	Unsettled by Ayana Mathis	Death Valley by Melissa Broder	Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Fireworks Every Night by Beth Raymer	The Fraud by Zadie Smith	Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen	A Man of Two Faces by Biet Thanh Nguyen
George by Frieda Hughes	You Could Make this House Beautiful by Maggie Smith	How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair	Don’t Think., Dear by Alice Robb
Orbital by Samantha Harvey	You are There by Karin Lin-Greenberg	Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmoor	The Three of Us by Ore Agbaye Williams
Mrs S by K Patrick	Monsters by Claire Dederer	The Ferguson Report by Nicole Sealey	Marry Me a Little by Rob Kirby
The Teachers by Alexandra Robbins	Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo	Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Publisher’s Weekly

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey	The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight Andrew Leland	Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland Scott Shane	The Maniac Benjamin Labatut
My Work Olga Ravn, trans. from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell	Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe	The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History Ned Blackhawk	Same Bed Different Dreams Ed Park
The Talk Darrin Bell	The Wren, the Wren Anne Enright

Red

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld	We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman	Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Maame by Jessica George	The Future by Naomi Alderman	Minor Disturbances At Grand Life Apartments by Hema Sukumar
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan	Preloved by Lauren Bravo	Yellowface by RF Kuang
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck

Real Time Best of 2023

The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel	Sam by Allegra Goodman	River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer	Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Maame by Jessica George	Go As A River by Shelley Read	Stash by Laura Cathcart Robbins	I have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson	The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson	The Do Over by Suzanne Park	Homecoming by Kate Morton
Life and Other Love Songs by Anissa Gray	Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling	American Mermaid by Julia Langbein	The Three of us by  Ore Agbaje-Williams
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry	The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel	Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld	The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
My Father’s List by Laura Carney	My Murder by Katie Williams	Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan	I am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby	Deep As the Sky, Red as The Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig	Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo	The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by james McBride
Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur	Banyan Moon by Thao Thai	Talking at Night by Claire Daverley	Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen
You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza	Tom Lake by Ann Patchett	Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière	The Hike by Lucy Clarke
Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood	Happiness Falls by Angie Kim	The Fraud by Zadie Smith	Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
One Blood by Denene Millner	Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward	How to Save Babylon by Safiya Sinclair	North Woods by Daniel Mason
What we Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim	Wellness by Nathan Hill	Absolution by Alice McDermott	Family Meal by Bryan Washington
The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok

The Smithsonian Best History Books

The Wager by David Grann	Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright	Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard	King by Jonathan Eig
The Sisterhood by Lisa Mundy	Anne Bolyn and Elizabeth I by Tracy Borman	Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo	I Saw Death Coming by  Kidada E. Williams
The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore	On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

The Times

My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor	Fyneshade by Kate Griffin	Brutes by Dizz Tate
The Warlock Effect by Jeremy Dyson	Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy	The Wide World by Pierre Lemaitre
Tremor by Teju Cole	The New Life by Tom Crewe	The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
Caret by Adam Mars Jones	The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan	The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulkes
Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain	Yellowface by RF Kuang	The Wren The Wren by Annie Enright
Bee Sting by Paul Murray	The Fraud by Zadie Smith	Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead	Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry	Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Thunderclap by Laura Cumming	Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Time

A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung	Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez	The Wager by David Grann	Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
After Sappho by Selby Winn Schwartz	Y/N by Esther Li	King by Jonathan Eig	This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Greek Lessons by Hang Kan	Lone Women by Victor LaValle	The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Washington Post

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray	The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.	Loot by Tania James.	The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut.
North Woods by Daniel Mason.	The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox.

Vulture

Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus	Pig by Sam Sax	All the Sinner’s Bleed by SA Cosby	I am Homeless if this is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair	Paolo Alto by Malcolm Harris	Biography of X by Catherine Lacey	When Crack was King by Donovan X. Ramsey
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad	Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

The Week

Tackle by Jilly Cooper	Julia by Sandra Newman	The Pole and Other Stories by J.M. Coetzee	The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo	Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain	Beasts of England by Adam Biles	Holly by Stephen King
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch	The Fraud by Zadie Smith	The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright	Caret by Adam Mars-Jones
Open Throat by Henry Hoke	Tom Lake by Ann Patchett	The Bee Sting by Paul Murray	Ordinary Human by Megan Nolan
Be Mine by Richard Ford	I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore	Big Swiss by Jen Beagin	Death Under a Little Sky by Stig Abell
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov	The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks	The Guest by Emma Cline	Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
August Blue by Deborah Levy	A House for Alice by Diana Evans	Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson	Shy by Max Porter
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld	To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher	Dr. No by Percival Everett	Queen K by Sarah Thomas
Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry	Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh	Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton	Brutes by Dizz Tate
Victory City by Salman Rushdie	The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier (translation by Daniel Levin Becker)	White Riot by Joe Thomas	The New Life by Tom Crewe
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

Crime and Thriller

Guardian best crime and thriller

The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman	Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter	The Turn Glass by Cara Hunter
Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead	Word Monkey by Christopher Fowler	Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley
In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan	Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy	Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen
Case Sensitive by AK Turner	Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor	All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai	Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper	The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
The Scarlet Papers by Matthew Richardson	The Translator by Harriet Crawley	Other Women by Emma Flint
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson	Palace of Shadows by Ray Celestin	The Winter List by SG MacLean
Death of Lesser God by  Vaseem Khan	Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor	The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff