These books appear more than once in the top books of 2023
| 10+ mentions | 9 | 8 | 7 |
| The Fraud by Zadie Smith | Tom Lake by Ann Patchett The Bee Sting by Paul Murray | Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor | |
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Yellowface by RF Kuang The Wager by David Grann Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James Mcbride | Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton Maame by Jessica George King by Jonathan Eig Biography of X by Catherine Lacey The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese | North Woods by Daniel Mason The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson The Glutton by AK Blakemore Victory City by Salman Rushdie Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry The New Life by Tom Crewe I am Homeless if this is Not my Home by Lorrie Moore All the Sinners by SA Cosby The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff | Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Happy Place by Emily Henry I have some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff River Sing me Home by Eleanor Shearer If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Monsters by Claire Dederer Doppelgangers by Naomi Klein August Blue by Deborah Levy Mrs S by K Patrick Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem Khan Julia by Sandra Newman This Other Eden by Paul Harding | Strong Female Character by Fern Brady Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby Shy by Max Porter Lone Women by Victor Lavalle A Living Memory by Nicole A Chung Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland The Guest by Emma Cline | Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See My Husband by Maud Ventura Wandering Souls by Cecile Pinn Weyward by Emilia Hart Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Blackouts by Justin Torres Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward Prophet Song by Paul Lynch | Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan Death Valley by Melissa Broder Palace of Shadows by Ray Celestin Eve by Cat Bohannon The Seventh Sonby Sebastian Faulkes Happiness Falls by Angie Kim |