Announcing the Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023!
MYSTERY AND THRILLER
NIGHT WILL FIND YOU by Julia Heaberlin
REYKJAVÍK by Ragnar Jónasson and Katrín Jakobsdóttir
BOOK CLUB
BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei
A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT: A ROOTS OF CHAOS NOVEL by Samantha Shannon
HISTORICAL
ABSOLUTION by Alice McDermott
THE SUN WALKS DOWN by Fiona McFarlane
THE END OF DRUM-TIME by Hanna Pylväinen
DEBUT
WESTERN LANE by Chetna Maroo
SHORT FICTION
FAT TIME AND OTHER STORIES by Jeffery Renard Allen
WITNESS by Jamel Brinkley
WEDNESDAY’S CHILD by Yiyun Li
FICTIONAL VOICES
BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine Lacey
STERLING KARAT GOLD by Isabel Waidner
BEYOND THE DOOR OF NO RETURN by David Diop; translated by Sam Taylor
FICTIONAL FAMILIES
THE BEE STING by Paul Murray
MEMOIR
WORM: A CUBAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY by Edel Rodriguez
AND FINALLY: MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH by Henry Marsh
BITING THE HAND: GROWING UP ASIAN IN BLACK AND WHITE AMERICA by Julia Lee
BIOGRAPHIES
KING by Jonathan Eig
LARRY MCMURTRY: A LIFE by Tracy Daugherty
LOU REED: THE KING OF NEW YORK by Will Hermes
ALTHEA: THE LIFE OF TENNIS CHAMPION ALTHEA GIBSON by Sally H. Jacobs
AMERICAN HISTORY
YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO DIE BEFORE YOU CAN BEGIN TO LIVE: TEN WEEKS IN BIRMINGHAM THAT CHANGED AMERICA by Paul Kix
THE SULLIVANIANS: SEX, PSYCHOTHERAPY, AND THE WILD LIFE OF AN AMERICAN COMMUNE by Alexander Stille
BLACK LIFE IN AMERICA
THE TALK by Darrin Bell
ORDINARY NOTES by Christina Sharpe
CURRENT AFFAIRS
AMERICAN GUN: THE TRUE STORY OF THE AR-15 by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
OUR MIGRANT SOULS: A MEDITATION ON RACE AND THE MEANINGS AND MYTHS OF “LATINO” by Héctor Tobar
PAGE TURNERS
ANANSI’S GOLD: THE MAN WHO LOOTED THE WEST, OUTFOXED WASHINGTON, AND SWINDLED THE WORLD by Yepoka Yeebo
WOMEN WE BURIED, WOMEN WE BURNED: A MEMOIR by Rachel Louise Snyder
FEEL-GOOD READS
HOW TO BE: LIFE LESSONS FROM THE EARLY GREEKS by Adam Nicholson
YOUNG ADULT
WHEN GHOSTS CALL US HOME by Katya de Becerra
UNNECESSARY DRAMA by Nina Kenwood
INTO THE LIGHT by Mark Oshiro
THIS CURSED LIGHT: FROM THE LAST FINESTRA SERIES, VOL .2 by Emily Thiede
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