Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year2023

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187 Works / 198 Items 40,142 Books 1,733 Reviews 4.0
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All, American History (20), Arts & Culture Books (15), Arts & Entertainment (13), Best Books for Informed Americans Selection (1), Best Mysteries and Thrillers (23), Big-Picture History Books (12), Biographies (111), Black Life in America (21), Book Club Fiction (33), Book Club Nonfiction (7), Books About Artists of All Kinds (5), Books About Being Black in America (15), Books About Black Life in America (18), Books About Love and Loss (5), Books To Stir Heated Debate (7), Books for Foodies (12), Books for Progressives (4), Books of Note by Literary Lions (10), Books to Fight Misogyny and Sexism (6), Books to Fight Racism and Xenophobia (6), Children's Book (6), Collections (7), Comic Novels (5), Crime and (In)Justice (8), Culture Books (8), Current Affairs (36), Current Affairs & Social Sciences (21), Debut (24), Debut Fiction (107), Difficult but Necessary Reads (7), Environmental (7), Environmental Fiction (5), Essay (7), Essays & Entertainment (9), Feel-Good Reads (7), Fiction (14), Fiction About Love and Family (5), Fiction About Love and Sex (5), Fiction Debut (1), Fiction Get Your Book Club Talking (1), Fiction Writers to Discover (17), Fiction for Armchair Travel (4), Fiction for Quarantine Reading (7), Fiction in Translation (48), Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking (58), Fiction: The Top 25 (66), Fictional Families (27), Fictional Voices (17), General Fiction (34), Health and Popular Science (8), Heartrending Nonfiction (1), Historical Excavation (9), Historical Fiction (98), Historical Fiction, 2019, Historical Fiction, 2019 (1), Historical Novels (5), History (75), History Books (11), Indie (1), Indie Memoirs (7), Indie Mysteries and Thrillers (1), Kirkus & Rolling Stone's Best Music Books (21), Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (1), Literary Fiction (37), Memoirs (118), Memorable Characters (5), Memorable Fictional Families (10), Middle Grade (1), Multicultural (8), Mysteries (12), Mysteries & Thrillers (105), Mysteries and Thrillers (18), Mystery (31), Nature & Environment (18), Nature and Travel (12), Nature, Travel, and Sports Books (8), Nonfiction (342), Nonfiction - Shocking Tales of Injustice (6), Nonfiction Books to Navigate American Politics (6), Nonfiction Collections (7), Nonfiction for Lovers of the Literary Arts (7), Nonfiction with Truly Inspirational Characters (3), Nonfiction: The Top 25 (25), Novels To Get Your Book Club Talking (9), Page-Turners (10), Politics (14), Pop Culture and Entertainment (7), Popular Fiction (15), Popular Science Books (9), Reported (8), Romance (54), Science Books (7), Science Fiction and Fantasy (135), Science and Medicine (10), Science and Nature (29), Science and Technology (18), Short Fiction (62), Short Story Collections (15), Social & Cultural Studies Books (11), Socioeconomic Books (4), Sports and Entertainment (7), Story Collections (22), Teen (2), Thrillers (27), Tracking Autocracy and White Supremacy (4), Translation (9), Up-to-the-Minute Fiction (7), Urgent Books of Current Affairs (8), World History (15), Writers to Discover (8), Young Adult (1), Zombie and Vampire (6), No Category (32)
Years:
All, 2023 (198), 2022 (190), 2021 (194), 2020 (213), 2019 (186), 2018 (182), 2017 (18), 2016 (190), 2015 (182), 2014 (176), 2013 (202), 2012 (201), 2011 (154), 2010 (193), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2)
WorkCategoryYear
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics by H. W. Brands
American History2023
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren
American History2023
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly
American History2023
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
American History2023
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
American History2023
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
American History2023
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 by Edward J. Larson
American History2023
We May Dominate the World: America's Age of Ambition, Anxiety, and Adventurism by Sean A Mirski
American History2023
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille
American History2023
Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner by Robert Boyers
Arts & Culture Books2023
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Arts & Culture Books2023
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
Arts & Culture Books2023
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper
Arts & Culture Books2023
Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore
Arts & Culture Books2023
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
Arts & Culture Books2023
The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam Nagourney
Arts & Culture Books2023
The Lost Americans by Christopher Bollen
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Every Man a King by Walter Mosley
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
The Stolen Coast by Dwyer Murphy
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Code of the Hills (The Mick Hardin Novels Book 3) by Chris Offutt
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
A Line in the Sand: A Novel by Kevin Powers
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Best Mysteries and Thrillers2023
Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty
Biographies2023
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Biographies2023
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield
Biographies2023
August Wilson: A Life by Patti Hartigan
Biographies2023
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
Biographies2023
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Biographies2023
Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson by Sally H. Jacobs
Biographies2023
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert Mack McCormick
Biographies2023
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
Biographies2023
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick
Biographies2023
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White
Biographies2023
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
Book Club Fiction2023
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Book Club Fiction2023
A House for Alice by Diana Evans
Book Club Fiction2023
Breaking and Entering by Don Gillmor
Book Club Fiction2023
Your Love is Not Good by Johanna Hedva
Book Club Fiction2023
Liquid Snakes: A Novel by Stephen Kearse
Book Club Fiction2023
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Book Club Fiction2023
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
Book Club Fiction2023
The Apartment by Ana Menéndez
Book Club Fiction2023
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
Book Club Fiction2023
Lucky Dogs by Helen Schulman
Book Club Fiction2023
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Book Club Fiction2023
Amerikan Family, An: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley
Books About Being Black in America2023
The Talk by Darrin Bell
Books About Black Life in America2023
The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Jermaine FOWLER
Books About Black Life in America2023
Black AF History : the un-whitewashed story of America by Michael Harriot
Books About Black Life in America2023
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery
Books About Black Life in America2023
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by Joseph McGill Jr.
Books About Black Life in America2023
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Books About Black Life in America2023
Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race by Nico Slate
Books About Black Life in America2023
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care by Liran Einav
Current Affairs2023
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba
Current Affairs2023
The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival by Lisa M. Hamilton
Current Affairs2023
Trans Children in Today's Schools by Aidan Key
Current Affairs2023
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart
Current Affairs2023
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Current Affairs2023
The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins
Current Affairs2023
Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart
Current Affairs2023
Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar
Current Affairs2023
Deadly Quiet City by Murong Xuecun
Current Affairs2023
The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman
Debut2023
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Debut2023
The New Life by Tom Crewe
Debut2023
Promise: A Novel by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Debut2023
Good Women by Halle Hill
Debut2023
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
Debut2023
The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key
Debut2023
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Debut2023
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Debut2023
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
Debut2023
Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
Debut2023
On Marriage by Devorah Baum
Feel-Good Reads2023
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin
Feel-Good Reads2023
Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil
Feel-Good Reads2023
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
Feel-Good Reads2023
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz
Feel-Good Reads2023
Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino
Feel-Good Reads2023
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike
Feel-Good Reads2023
Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop
Fiction in Translation2023
Greek Lessons by Kang Han
Fiction in Translation2023
Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Fiction in Translation2023
This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor
Fiction in Translation2023
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
Fiction in Translation2023
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante
Fiction in Translation2023
My Work by Olga Ravn
Fiction in Translation2023
The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
Fiction in Translation2023
Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke
Fiction in Translation2023
The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel
Fictional Families2023
Dayswork by Chris Bachelder
Fictional Families2023
Day by Michael Cunningham
Fictional Families2023
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
Fictional Families2023
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Fictional Families2023
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis
Fictional Families2023
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Fictional Families2023
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Fictional Families2023
The New Earth: A Novel by Jess Row
Fictional Families2023
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Fictional Families2023
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Fictional Voices2023
Monica by Daniel Clowes
Fictional Voices2023
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Fictional Voices2023
The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand
Fictional Voices2023
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Fictional Voices2023
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
Fictional Voices2023
Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner
Fictional Voices2023
The New Life by Tom Crewe
Historical Fiction2023
The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
Historical Fiction2023
Promise: A Novel by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Historical Fiction2023
We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein
Historical Fiction2023
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
Historical Fiction2023
Loot by Tania James
Historical Fiction2023
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
Historical Fiction2023
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Historical Fiction2023
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Historical Fiction2023
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Historical Fiction2023
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Historical Fiction2023
Absolution by Alice McDermott
Historical Fiction2023
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
Historical Fiction2023
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
Historical Fiction2023
Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
Historical Fiction2023
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Historical Fiction2023
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Historical Fiction2023
The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, A Memoir by Victoria Belim
Memoirs2023
Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger
Memoirs2023
Everything/Nothing/Someone: A Memoir by Alice Carrière
Memoirs2023
The Dead are Gods by Eirinie Carson
Memoirs2023
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin
Memoirs2023
How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key
Memoirs2023
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
Memoirs2023
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh
Memoirs2023
Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir by Fae Myenne Ng
Memoirs2023
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
Memoirs2023
Twist: An American Girl by Adele Bertei
Page-Turners2023
A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice by Paul Caruana Galizia
Page-Turners2023
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
Page-Turners2023
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin
Page-Turners2023
The People's Hospital: Stories and Lessons from a Safety Net Healthcare System by Ricardo Nuila
Page-Turners2023
Rikers: An Oral History by Graham Rayman
Page-Turners2023
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
Page-Turners2023
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder
Page-Turners2023
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
Page-Turners2023
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
Page-Turners2023
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
Romance2023
Ana María and The Fox by Liana De la Rosa
Romance2023
Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman
Romance2023
Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall
Romance2023
Jana Goes Wild by Farah Heron
Romance2023
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
Romance2023
How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne Long
Romance2023
Knockout by Sarah MacLean
Romance2023
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Romance2023
Radical by Nature by James T. Costa
Science and Nature2023
The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls by Miriam Darlington
Science and Nature2023
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman
Science and Nature2023
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline T Geronimus
Science and Nature2023
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb
Science and Nature2023
OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb
Science and Nature2023
Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó
Science and Nature2023
Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir by Iliana Regan
Science and Nature2023
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey
Science and Nature2023
Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
Translation State by Ann Leckie
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
We Are the Crisis (The Convergence Saga) (Convergence Saga, 2) by Cadwell Turnbull
Science Fiction and Fantasy2023
Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley
Short Fiction2023
Games and Rituals: Stories by Katherine Heiny
Short Fiction2023
Good Women by Halle Hill
Short Fiction2023
The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key
Short Fiction2023
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Short Fiction2023
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link
Short Fiction2023
Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li
Short Fiction2023
When Trying to Return Home: Stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Short Fiction2023
A New Race of Men from Heaven (Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) by Chaitali Sen
Short Fiction2023
The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs by George Singleton
Short Fiction2023
Holler, Child: Stories by Latoya Watkins
Short Fiction2023
Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
Short Fiction2023
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
World History2023
The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth by Adam Goodheart
World History2023
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney
World History2023
The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore
World History2023
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
World History2023
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller by Max Wallace
World History2023
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton
World History2023
Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley
2023
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link
2023

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