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The Most Recommended Books of 2023

We counted 6,557 entries from 141 sources in 2023. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton appeared on 20, tied for the most of any book.

A source counts once per book, whatever the result: a win, a shortlist place, or a list pick. We show books named by 3 or more sources. 2023 is the award or list year, not the publication year.

20 sources

  1. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

  2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

19 sources

  1. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

  2. The Fraud by Zadie Smith

  3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

17 sources

  1. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

  2. How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

16 sources

  1. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

15 sources

  1. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant

  2. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

  3. Lone Women: A Novel by Victor LaValle

14 sources

  1. All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel by S. A. Cosby

  2. North Woods by Daniel Mason

  3. Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

  4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

13 sources

  1. Blackouts by Justin Torres

  2. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

  3. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

12 sources

  1. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

  2. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

11 sources

  1. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

  2. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

  3. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer

  4. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

  5. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

  6. The Talk by Darrin Bell

10 sources

  1. Big by Vashti Harrison

  2. Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

  3. Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo

  4. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

  5. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

  6. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

  7. The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

  8. This Other Eden by Paul Harding

  9. Victory City by Salman Rushdie

  10. When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey

  11. Witness by Jamel Brinkley

9 sources

  1. Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

  2. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

  3. In Memoriam by Alice Winn

  4. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

  5. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

  6. Mexikid by Pedro Martín

  7. Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

  8. Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista

  9. The Guest by Emma Cline

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

  11. When You Can Swim by Jack Wong

8 sources

  1. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall

  2. A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan

  3. Absolution by Alice McDermott

  4. Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

  5. Anansi's Gold by Yepoka Yeebo

  6. Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop

  7. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

  8. Loot by Tania James

  9. Monica by Daniel Clowes

  10. Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar

  11. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

  12. Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

  13. The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut

  14. The New Life by Tom Crewe

  15. The Postcard by Anne Berest

  16. Tremor by Teju Cole

  17. Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

  18. Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye

  19. Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

  20. Wednesday’s Child: Stories by Yiyun Li

7 sources

  1. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  2. America Redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger

  3. Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith

  4. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

  5. Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza

  6. Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang

  7. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

  8. Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

  9. Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park

  10. The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

  11. The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

  12. The Iliad by Homer

  13. The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day

  14. The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

  15. The Skull by Jon Klassen

  16. Translation State by Ann Leckie

  17. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: a Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

  18. We Were Once A Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6 sources

  1. A Walk in the Woods by Nikki Grimes, Jerry Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

  2. An American Story by Kwame Alexander

  3. August Blue by Deborah Levy

  4. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang

  5. Chinese Menu by Grace Lin

  6. From From by Monica Youn

  7. Holler, Child by LaToya Watkins

  8. Holly by Stephen King

  9. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass

  10. Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

  11. Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo

  12. My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

  13. Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

  14. Remember by Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade

  15. Shutter by Ramona Emerson

  16. Spare by Prince Harry

  17. Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter

  18. The 272 by Rachel L. Swarns

  19. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

  20. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

  21. The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland

  22. The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

  23. The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer

  24. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

  25. The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

  26. The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane

  27. The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis

  28. The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

  29. Wellness by Nathan Hill

  30. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo

  31. White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link and Shaun Tan

  32. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

  33. Y/N by Esther Yi

5 sources

  1. A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung

  2. After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

  3. August Wilson by Patti Hartigan

  4. Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy and Janelle Washington

  5. Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb

  6. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

  7. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

  8. Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

  9. Eve by Cat Bohannon

  10. Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

  11. Family Meal by Bryan Washington

  12. Greek Lessons by Han Kang

  13. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

  14. Henry, Like Always by Jenn Bailey

  15. How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

  16. I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

  17. Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

  18. Impossible People by Julia Wertz

  19. Invisible Son by Kim Johnson

  20. Jumper by Jessica Lanan

  21. Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

  22. Mascot by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell

  23. My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott

  24. Pageboy by Elliot Page

  25. Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson

  26. Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark

  27. Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

  28. Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder

  29. Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

  30. Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow

  31. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

  32. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

  33. Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein

  34. Take What You Need by Idra Novey

  35. Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal

  36. The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

  37. The Future by Naomi Alderman

  38. The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng

  39. The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper

  40. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

  41. The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards

  42. The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh

  43. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

  44. The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

  45. The Swifts by Beth Lincoln

  46. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

  47. There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds

  48. This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor

  49. Thunderclap by Laura Cumming

  50. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

  51. To 2040 by Jorie Graham

  52. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

  53. We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

  54. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

  55. What An Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

  56. Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest

  57. Wifedom by Anna Funder

  58. You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

4 sources

  1. A Death in Malta by Paul Caruana Galizia

  2. A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat

  3. A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

  4. A History of Burning by Janika Oza

  5. A House for Alice by Diana Evans

  6. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell

  7. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

  8. After the Funeral and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley

  9. Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

  10. All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

  11. American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

  12. An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley

  13. An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

  14. Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa

  15. Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave Art by Hannah Salyer

  16. Aniana del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez

  17. Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris

  18. Artificial by Amy Kurzweil

  19. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

  20. Balladz by Sharon Olds

  21. Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet

  22. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick

  23. Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves

  24. Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

  25. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley

  26. Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

  27. Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara

  28. Day by Michael Cunningham

  29. Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

  30. Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

  31. Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

  32. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

  33. Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler

  34. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul

  35. Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones

  36. Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor

  37. Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal

  38. Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard

  39. Evergreen by Matthew Cordell

  40. Everybody Knows: A Novel by Jordan Harper

  41. Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam by Thien Pham

  42. For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome

  43. Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

  44. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama

  45. From Here by Luma Mufleh

  46. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

  47. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

  48. How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford

  49. How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin

  50. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

  51. I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

  52. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

  53. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe by Steve Sheinkin

  54. In Place of Fear by Catriona McPherson

  55. Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

  56. Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney

  57. Knockout by Sarah MacLean

  58. More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long

  59. Mott Street by Ava Chin

  60. Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homans

  61. My Head Has A Bellyache: More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-ups by Chris Harris

  62. My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom and Steph Littlebird

  63. My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder

  64. Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

  65. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

  66. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

  67. Once Upon A Book by Grace Lin

  68. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

  69. Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman

  70. Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen

  71. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

  72. Saints of the Household by Ari Tison

  73. School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson

  74. Secret Identity by Alex Segura

  75. Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

  76. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

  77. Spanish Is the Language of My Family by Michael Genhart

  78. Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport by Caren Stelson

  79. Starter Villain by John Scalzi

  80. Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

  81. Sunshine by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  82. The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra

  83. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

  84. The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

  85. The Dictionary People by Sarah Ogilvie

  86. The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan

  87. The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch

  88. The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A–Z by Tamar Adler

  89. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A Novel by Stephen Buoro

  90. The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle

  91. The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon

  92. The Islands by Dionne Irving

  93. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

  94. The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich

  95. The Long Form by Kate Briggs

  96. The Maid by Nita Prose

  97. The Monkey Trial by Anita Sanchez

  98. The Parrot and the Igloo by David Lipsky

  99. The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett

  100. The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

  101. The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

  102. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

  103. The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

  104. Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland

  105. To Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith

  106. Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

  107. Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

  108. What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

  109. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

  110. When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

  111. World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky

3 sources

  1. 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary by Don Brown

  2. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith

  3. A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

  4. A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

  5. A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

  6. A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

  7. A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors

  8. A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama by Ray Anthony Shepard

  9. A Shining by Jon Fosse

  10. A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

  11. Above Ground by Clint Smith

  12. Accountable: The True Story of A Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

  13. After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley

  14. Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera

  15. All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley

  16. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran

  17. Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees by Paul Tom

  18. Althea by Sally H. Jacobs

  19. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

  20. Ancient Night by David Álvarez

  21. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai

  22. Bayou Book Thief by Ellen Byron

  23. Biting the Hand by Julia Lee

  24. Black AF History by Michael Harriot

  25. Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn

  26. Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem

  27. Brooms by Jasmine Walls

  28. Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah

  29. Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

  30. Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

  31. Chlorine by Jade Song

  32. Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au

  33. Collision of Power by Martin Baron

  34. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust by Neal Shusterman

  35. Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

  36. Death By Bubble Tea by Jennifer J. Chow

  37. Desert Queen by Jyoti Rajan Gopal

  38. Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham

  39. Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor

  40. Disruptions by Steven Millhauser

  41. Easily Slip into Another World by Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards

  42. Elena Rides by Juana Medina

  43. Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson

  44. Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk

  45. Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger

  46. Fear Is Just a Word by Azam Ahmed

  47. Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

  48. Five Moves of Doom by A. J. Devlin

  49. Flee North by Scott Shane

  50. Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

  51. Friends Beyond Measure by Lalena Fisher

  52. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

  53. Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

  54. Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story by Kate Clayborn

  55. Ghost Book by Remy Lai

  56. God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu

  57. Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon

  58. Going Infinite by Michael Lewis

  59. Gone Wolf by Amber McBride

  60. Good Girls by Hadley Freeman

  61. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

  62. Greenwild by Pari Thomson

  63. Happy Place by Emily Henry

  64. Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott

  65. High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez

  66. HIM by Geoff Ryman

  67. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

  68. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

  69. Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell

  70. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

  71. I'm From by Gary R. Gray Jr. and Oge Mora

  72. Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

  73. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park

  74. In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

  75. In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee

  76. In The Upper Country by Kai Thomas

  77. Into the Light by Mark Oshiro

  78. Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

  79. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop

  80. ISDAL by Susannah Dickey

  81. Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter by Aida Salazar and Molly Mendoza

  82. Just Like Grandma by Kim Rogers

  83. Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

  84. Ladies’ Lunch: And Other Stories by Lore Segal

  85. Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

  86. Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

  87. Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue

  88. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

  89. Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

  90. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru

  91. Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

  92. Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

  93. Maame by Jessica George

  94. Madonna: A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel

  95. Mage and the Endless Unknown by S. J. Miller

  96. Making More: How Life Begins by Katherine Roy

  97. Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman

  98. Mobility by Lydia Kiesling

  99. Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

  100. My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor

  101. My Work by Olga Ravn

  102. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

  103. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

  104. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

  105. Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

  106. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery

  107. Open Throat by Henry Hoke

  108. Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

  109. Owlish by Dorothy Tse

  110. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler

  111. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris

  112. Papá's Magical Water-jug Clock by Jesús Trejo

  113. Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart

  114. Promise Boys by Nick Brooks

  115. Promises of Gold by José Olivarez

  116. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

  117. Rainbow Shopping by Qing Zhuang

  118. Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado

  119. Remembering by Xelena González

  120. Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter

  121. Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll! by Tonya Bolden

  122. Ruby Lost and Found by Christina Li

  123. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

  124. See the Ghost: Three Stories About Things You Cannot See by David LaRochelle

  125. Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant

  126. She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

  127. Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

  128. Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson

  129. So to Speak by Terrance Hayes

  130. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy

  131. Sonic Life by Thurston Moore

  132. Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson

  133. Spear by Nicola Griffith

  134. Spin by Rebecca Caprara

  135. Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly

  136. Stay True by Hua Hsu

  137. Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

  138. Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm

  139. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

  140. suddenly we by Evie Shockley

  141. Summer Is for Cousins by Rajani LaRocca

  142. Sundial by Catriona Ward

  143. That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown

  144. The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier

  145. The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

  146. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

  147. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie by Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal

  148. The Book of Turtles by Sy Montgomery

  149. The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

  150. The Deadline by Jill Lepore

  151. The Deluge by Stephen Markley

  152. The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

  153. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World out of Balance by Dan Egan

  154. The Dog of the North: A Novel by Elizabeth McKenzie

  155. The Exceptions by Kate Zernike

  156. The Faraway World by Patricia Engel

  157. The Fire of Stars: The Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made of by Kirsten W. Larson

  158. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

  159. The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

  160. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

  161. The Golden Gate by Amy Chua

  162. The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle

  163. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

  164. The Hospital Book by Lisa Brown

  165. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

  166. The House on via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

  167. The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

  168. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

  169. The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory by Tim Alberta

  170. The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel

  171. The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat

  172. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

  173. The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

  174. The Lights: Poems by Ben Lerner

  175. The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks

  176. The Lumumba Plot by Stuart A. Reid

  177. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

  178. The New Naturals by Gabriel Bump

  179. The Next New Syrian Girl by Ream Shukairy

  180. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by Ricardo Nuila

  181. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green

  182. The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo

  183. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

  184. The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya

  185. The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

  186. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph

  187. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

  188. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Prudence Peiffer

  189. The Story of Gumluck the Wizard by Adam Rex

  190. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

  191. The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker

  192. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey

  193. The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

  194. The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  195. The Young Man by Annie Ernaux

  196. Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

  197. There Will Be Fire by Rory Carroll

  198. They Hold the Line by Dan Paley

  199. Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke

  200. This Country by Navied Mahdavian

  201. This Is Salvaged by Vauhini Vara

  202. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children by Hannah Barnes

  203. To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

  204. To the Other Side by Erika Meza

  205. Too Small Tola Gets Tough by Atinuke

  206. Total Garbage by Rebecca Donnelly

  207. Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

  208. Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen

  209. Under a Veiled Moon by Karen Odden

  210. Unearthing by Kyo Maclear

  211. Unreliable Narrator by Aparna Nancherla

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