Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: AdultsSelectionMust-Read Books: Fiction2023

Given by Chicago Public Library

Other Names: Chicago Public Library Adults Best of the Best Books
98 Works 73,287 Books 2,006 Reviews ½ 4.0

"Each year, a team of CPL librarians evaluates the year’s new books and selects the best books for Chicago's adults."

Stages:
All, Selection (1,179), Top Ten (90), Top 20 (20)
Categories:
All, Must-Read Books: Fiction (98)
Years:
All, 2023 (98)

Selection 98

WorkYear
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo2023
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah2023
Fat Time and Other Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen2023
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama2023
The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel2023
Rouge by Mona Awad2023
Dayswork by Chris Bachelder2023
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry2023
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin2023
The Postcard by Anne Berest2023
Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal2023
Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley2023
Death Valley by Melissa Broder2023
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati2023
The Guest by Emma Cline2023
Tremor: A Novel by Teju Cole2023
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens2023
The New Life by Tom Crewe2023
Day by Michael Cunningham2023
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis2023
Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop2023
The Faraway World: Stories by Patricia Engel2023
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng2023
The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright2023
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck2023
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter2023
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux2023
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney2023
Maame by Jessica George2023
Promise: A Novel by Rachel Eliza Griffiths2023
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff2023
After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley2023
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad2023
Greek Lessons by Kang Han2023
This Other Eden by Paul Harding2023
Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham2023
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon2023
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng2023
The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand2023
Good Women by Halle Hill2023
Wellness by Nathan Hill2023
Open Throat by Henry Hoke2023
The Iliad by Homer2023
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson2023
Loot by Tania James2023
Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc2023
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez2023
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan2023
Mobility: A Novel by Lydia Kiesling2023
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang2023
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut2023
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey2023
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri2023
Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee2023
Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter2023
August Blue by Deborah Levy2023
Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li2023
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai2023
North Woods by Daniel Mason2023
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis2023
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride2023
When Trying to Return Home: Stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley2023
Absolution by Alice McDermott2023
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane2023
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed2023
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray2023
Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan2023
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano2023
Girl Juice by Benji Nate2023
Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye2023
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel2023
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez2023
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue2023
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park2023
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett2023
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul2023
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters2023
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin2023
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power2023
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen2023
My Work by Olga Ravn2023
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr2023
The Fraud by Zadie Smith2023
The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone2023
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki2023
Blackouts by Justin Torres2023
Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea2023
The People Who Report More Stress: Stories by Alejandro Varela2023
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese2023
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward2023
Family Meal by Bryan Washington2023
Holler, Child: Stories by Latoya Watkins2023
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead2023
In Memoriam by Alice Winn2023
Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel by Chun Ye2023
Y/N: A Novel by Esther Yi2023
Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine2023
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang2023

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