The Ultimate Best Books of 2023 List

The Ultimate Best Books of 2023 List

Reading All the Lists So You Don’t Have To Since 2017

By Emily Temple | December 23, 2023

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023

“Yes, it’s her world and after reading her book I just wish I could move off-planet.”

By Book Marks | December 23, 2023

The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

At Least 2023 is Over Now

By Literary Hub | December 23, 2023

The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

Lit Hub Staffers on the Year’s Best Reading Experiences

By Literary Hub | December 23, 2023

Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

“Your only job is to find a way to secure enough time to keep throwing yourself into the void.”

By Blake Butler | December 22, 2023

Colm Tóibín! Geraldine Brooks! A guide to killing time! 19 books out in paperback this January.

Colm Tóibín! Geraldine Brooks! A guide to killing time! 19 books out in paperback this January.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 22, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Go Gentle
  • The Palm House
  • Lázár
  • Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
  • Famesick: A Memoir
  • Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other--And the World

Are you the Literary A**hole?
Ask Kristen Arnett.

By Jonny Diamond | December 21, 2023

We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

By E. Tracy Grinnell | December 21, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian | December 21, 2023

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 21, 2023

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 21, 2023

The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

“I learned later that he had left a piece of paper with four stark words on it: ’Suicide notes are tacky.‘”

By Matthew Hays | December 20, 2023

Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court's Checkered Past and Future

Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court's Checkered Past and Future

Daniel Kiel and Lori Ringhand Speak with Stanford University Press

By Literary Hub | December 20, 2023

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 20, 2023

Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

In Conversation with Tai Caputo From Iowa City’s City High School Student Paper

By Tai Caputo | December 19, 2023

David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | December 19, 2023

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