Listed: 50 Best Books (& More) 2023 Lists

I searched high and low to bring you a one stop shop of best books lists

Settle in with your favorite drink and a notebook because I’ve put together a gigantic “best of” list for you to browse. List making is one of my very favorite things to do and what could be better than a smorgasbord of best books of the year lists all in one place? I spent hours scouring the internet and I hope you’ll love browsing through the variety of lists. There’s an interesting mix of books we’ve seen hyped this year, but I also found lists that had so many books I’d never heard of! That has been so fun to find some new titles that obviously flew under my radar and maybe yours too, but someone loved them enough to put them on their best books of the year list. I also included genre specific lists, as well as other fun, obscure lists that I bet might be a surprise to you. I hope you enjoy looking through the lists and finding some new to you titles!

Happy Browsing!

The Best Books We Read in 2023 (Huffington Post)

30 of the Best Books of 2023 (NY Post)

Best of 2023 (Kirkus)

The Best Books of 2023 (Vulture)

Best Books of 2023 (Publisher’s Weekly)

The Best Books We Read in 2023 (Independent Book Review)

The 25 Best Books of 2023 (Men’s Journal)

The Best Books of 2023 (The Guardian)

The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023 (Literary Hub)

The 20 Best Books of 2023 (Esquire)

The 10 Best Books of 2023 (The Washington Post)

The Best Books of 2023 (The New Yorker)

55 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2023 (Scientific American) - this list has so many I’d never heard of!

The 10 Best Books of 2023 (The New York Times)

The Best Books of 2023 (Barnes & Noble)

The Best Books of 2023 (People Magazine)

The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2023 (Literary Hub)

The Best Crime Novels of 2023 (Crimereads)

The Best Translated Crime Fiction of 2023 (Crime Fiction Lover)

Best Books You Might’ve Missed (Oprah Daily)

Best Books of 2023 (The Conversation)

The 10 Best Romance Novels of 2023 (EW.com)

Best Books of 2023 (Book Riot)

The Best Books of 2023 (Vogue)

The Best Fiction Books of 2023 (Time)

Books We Loved in 2023 (The Boston Globe)

Best Books of 2023 (The New York Public Library)

These are the Best Books of 2023 (Real Simple)

The 10 Best Productivity Books of 2023 (Calendar.com)

10 Best Self-Improvement Books of 2023 (Edit Republic.com)

Best Nonfiction & Memoirs of 2023

The 10 best Nonfiction Books of 2023 (Time)

Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 (Powell Books)

20 of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 (Good Housekeeping)

Best Memoirs of 2023 (Vulture)

Best Memoirs of 2023 (Oprah Daily)

The Best Memoirs of 2023 (The Guardian)

The 25 Best New Celebrity Memoirs of 2023 (Town & Country Magazine)

The Most Fascinating Nonfiction Books of 2023 (Gentleman’s Journal)

Best Audiobooks of 2023

The Best Audiobooks of 2023 (Audiobook Addicts)

The Best Audiobooks of 2023 (Literary Hub)

Audiophile’s Best Audiobooks of 2023 (Audiophile Magazine)

10 Best Audiobooks of 2023 (Slate)

Best Audiobooks of 2023 (Barnes & Noble)

Best Audiobooks of 2023 (King County Library)

Best Audiobooks of 2023 (Audible)

Best Covers of 2023

The Best Book Covers of 2023 Are the Ones You’ll Never See (Fast Company) - this is a fun one!

The Best Covers of 2023 (New York Times)

Best Book Covers of 2023 (Literary Hub)

Top 10 Book Covers of the Year (Library Journal)

32 Best Book Covers of 2023 (Electric Literature)