Time has released a list of the 100 must read books of 2023. Their list has some of the biggest books as well as lesser-known novels that may have gone under your radar. Keep reading to see the full list!
As the year comes to an end, end of year book lists have been emerging like Christmas trees the day after Halloween. Time has released a big list of the best novel, nonfiction books, and poetry that they loved. You can see the full list below!
Time 100 Must Read Books of 2023
- The 272 by Rachel L. Swarns
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall
- A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
- Above Ground by Clint Smith
- Absolution by Alice McDermott
- After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
- After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley
- All Souls by Saskia Hamilton
- All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
- Anansi’s Gold by Yepoka Yeebo
- August Blue by Deborah Levy
- The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
- Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Blackouts by Justin Torres
- Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
- The Deadline by Jill Lepore
- Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
- Dyscalculia by Camonghne Felix
- The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
- Fair Play by Katie Barnes
- Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Fire Weather by John Vaillant
- From From by Monica Youn
- The Future by Naomi Alderman
- Ghost Musicby An Yu
- The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
- The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
- The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper
- Greek Lessons by Han Kang
- The Guest by Emma Cline
- The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
- The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon
- Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie
- Holler, Child by Latoya Watkins
- How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin
- How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
- I Am Still With You by Emmanuel Iduma
- I Do Everything I’m Told by Megan Fernandes
- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
- The Iliad by Emily Wilson (translator)
- I Love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko
- Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
- King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
- Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
- Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian
- Liliana’s Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
- Lone Women by Victor LaValle
- The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt
- Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
- Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
- Mott Street by Ava Chin
- My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
- None of the Above by Travis Alabanza
- North Woods by Daniel Mason
- Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery
- Our Migrant Souls by Héctor Tobar
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
- Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen
- Pageboy by Elliot Page
- Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
- The Postcard by Anne Berest
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
- Red Memory by Tania Branigan
- Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
- River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
- Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
- Spare by Prince Harry
- The Talk by Darrin Bell
- Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
- Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter
- Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding
- The Three of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams
- Thunderclap by Laura Cumming
- To Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Tremor by Teju Cole
- The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
- The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein
- Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye
- Victory City by Salman Rushdie
- The Wager by David Grann
- Waiting to Be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil
- Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
- What Happened to Ruthy Ramirezby Claire Jiménez
- What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
- When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey
- The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
- Y/N by Esther Yi
- Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
- You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
- The Young Man by Annie Ernaux