Essential and Interesting “Best of 2023” Book Lists

For the past fifteen years, I have aggregated every online year-end book list I have discovered into one post.

This year, I will collect essential and interesting year-end book lists in this post and update it daily.

Please feel free to e-mail me with a magazine, newspaper, or other online list I have missed.

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10,000 Birds (favorite bird books)

Air Mail (best books)
Alternative Press (best music books)
Amazon (best books)
Architectural Record (notable books)
Art Guide Australia (art books)
The Art Newspaper (best art books)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia authors’ favorite books)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (the South’s best books)
Atlantic (best books)
AudioFile (best books)
Auraist (best-written books)
Austin Kleon (books)
Autostraddle (best queer books)

Barack Obama (favorite books)
Barnes & Noble (best books)
Belfast Telegraph (local writers’ best books)
Best 0f Korea (best books by Korean Americans)
Big Issue (best books)
Bill Gates (favorite books)
Black Girl Nerds (best books by Black authors)
Black Perspectives (best Black history books)
Bloody Disgusting (best horror books)
Book and Film Globe (favorite books)
Book Riot (best book covers)
Book Riot (best books)
Book Soup (best books)
BookPage (best books)
Bookreporter (favorite books)
Boston Globe (best cookbooks)
Boston Globe (books)
Brittle Paper (notable African American books)
Brooklyn Rail (best art books)
Broadway World (best books for theatre lovers)

California Review of Books (best books)
Catster (best cat books)
CBC (best Canadian books)
Chicago Public Library (best books)
Chicago Review of Books (best books)
Chicago Tribune (best books)
The Chronicle of Higher Education (best scholarly books)
Colossal (best art books)
The Conversation (best books)
CounterPunch (best books)
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay (best Florida books)
Criminal Element (favorite books)
CultureLab (best books)

David Joy (top books)
DAZED (best non-fiction books)
Debutiful (best debut books)
delicious. (best cookbooks)
Delish (best cookbooks)
Dezeen (best architecture & design books)
Digital Camera World (best photography books)
The Dirt (best books)

Eater Chicago (best Chicago cookbooks)
Economist (best books)
Electric Literature (best fiction)
Electric Literature (best nonfiction)
Electric Literature (best short story collections)
ELLE (best books)
Emma Straub (favorite books)
Epicurious (best cookbooks)
Esquire (best books)
Esquire (best horror books)

Fast Company (best design books)
Financial Times (best books)
Five Books (best cookbooks)
Five Books (book lists)
FLOOD (best music books)
Food & Wine (best children’s food books)

Food & Wine (best cookbooks)
Foreign Affairs (best books)
Forks Over Knives (favorite vegan books)
Frieze (top books)

GalleriesWest (best art books)
TheGamer (best video game cookbooks)
Gay Times (best LGBTQ+ books)
Geographical (best books)
Gizmodo (underrated fantasy books)
Globe and Mail (best books)
Globe and Mail (books)
GOSH! (best comics)
GQ UK (best cookbooks)
Greater Good Magazine (best books for educators)
Greater Good Magazine (favorite books)
Greater Good Magazine (favorite parenting books)
The Growth Equation (best books for sustainable excellence & well-being)
Guardian (best books)
Guardian (best books lists by genre)
Guardian (best graphic novels)

Happy (best music books)
Harper’s Bazaar (best books you can’t put down)
Harvard Crimson (top books)
Highbrow (best books)
History Today (books)
Hot Press (best books)
Hyperallergic (best art books)

Independent (best books)
Indigo (best books)

The Independent (best books)
The Innocence Project (best books)
InsideHook (best books)
Irish Times (best books)

Jacobin (best books)
Jezebel (best books)

The Kitchn (best cookbooks)
Kirkus (best books)
Kirkus Prize (books)
Kobo (best books)

L.A. Taco (best books about Los Angeles culture)
Largehearted Boy (favorite nonfiction)
Largehearted Boy (favorite novels)
Largehearted Boy (favorite poetry collections)
Largehearted Boy (favorite short story collections)
Latin Times (top Latin Books)
Leafly (epic weed books)
The Lesbrary (favorite Sapphic books)
Librarie Drawn & Quarterly (staff picks)
Library Journal (best books)
Literary Hub (best books)
The Local Palate (best cookbooks)
Los Angeles Times (best cookbooks)
Los Angeles Times (best fiction)
Los Angeles Times (best tech books)
Louder Than War (best music books)

Medievalists.net (best Medieval books)
Modern Mrs. Darcy (favorite books)
Mombian (best books for LGBTQ parents, prospective parents, and parents of LGBTQ kids)
Mpls St. Paul (essential Minnesota books)
Ms. Magazine (top feminist books)

National Book Awards (books)
National Translation Awards (books in translation)
New Scientist (best non-fiction & popular science books)
New Scientist (best science fiction)
New Statesman (best books)
New Statesman (best books)
New Statesman (books)
New York Times (best art books)
New York Times (best books)
New York Times (best California books)
New York Times (best children’s books)
New York Times (best cookbooks)
New York Times (best crime novels)
New York Times (best graphic novels)
New York Times (best historical fiction)
New York Times (best horror books)
New York Times (best wine books)
New York Times (best romance books)
New York Times (best science fiction & fantasy books)
New York Times (notable books)
New York Times/NYPL (best illustrated children’s books)
New York Public Library (best books)
New Yorker (best books)
The Next Big Idea Club (best psychology books)
NPR (books)
NPR – Maureen Corrigan (best books)

Observer (best books)
Observer (best poster books)
Observer Food Monthly (best books)
Oprah Magazine (best novels)
Our Culture (best books)
Our Queerest Shelves (best queer books)

Paris Review (favorite books)
PEZ Cycling News (best cycling books)
Photo-Eye (favorite photobooks)
Pitchfork (best music books)
Planetizen (top planning books)
Powell’s (best books)
The Progressive (favorite books)
Publishers Weekly (best books)

Red Sauce America (Italian cookbooks)
The Republic (favourite books)
resident (books)
Rewilding (best books)
Rolling Stone (best music books)
The Root (favorite books by Black authors)
Rough Trade (favourite music books)
The Rumpus (most beautiful books)

Samantha Leach (best books)
San Diego Union-Tribune (best books)
San Francisco Chronicle (best books)
San Francisco Chronicle (favorite books)
The Scholarly Kitchen (chefs’ best books)
School Library Journal (best books)
Science News (best books)
Scientific American (best books)
Seminary Co-op (best books)
Shelf Awareness (best adult books)
The Skinny (best books)
Slate (best books)
Smithsonian Magazine (best books)
Spitball (best baseball books)
The Sweet Science (best books about boxing)
Sydney Morning Herald (best books)

Tattered Cover Book Store (best books)
Telegraph (best books)
Telegraph (best fiction)
them (favorite LGBTQ+ books)
TIME (best fiction books)
TIME (best nonfiction books)
TIME (must-read books)
The Times (best books)
Tor.com (best books)
TravelPulse (best travel books)

Vanity Fair (best short books)
Vanity Fair (favorite books)
Variety (best music books)
Vogue (best books)
Vox (best books)
Vulture (best books)
Vulture (best comedy books)

Wall Street Journal (best books)
Wall Street Journal (favorite books)
Washington Post (best books)
Waterstones (best books)
Wendy Perron (notable dance books)
Willamette Week (best books by Portland writers)
Wired (best books)
Wired (favorite photography books)
Words Without Borders (best books)
World Literature Today (notable translations)

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