NPR Best Book2023

Given by NPR Books

Other Names: NPR: Books We Love
71 Works 26,650 Books 1,213 Reviews ½ 4.0
Years:
All, 2023 (71), 2022 (72), 2021 (69), 2020 (70), 2019 (73), 2018 (38), 2017 (18), 2016 (14), 2015 (15), 2014 (19), 2013 (3)
WorkYear
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
2023
Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods by Mariana Alessandri
2023
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian
2023
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
2023
Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume
2023
The House Is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
2023
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
2023
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
2023
The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
2023
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
2023
House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
2023
What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher
2023
Edith Holler: A Novel by Edward Carey
2023
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson
2023
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
2023
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
2023
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
2023
Sordidez by E.G. Condé
2023
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
2023
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
2023
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
2023
Pay As You Go by Eskor David Johnson
2023
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
2023
Bellies by Nicola Dinan
2023
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
2023
Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop
2023
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
2023
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
2023
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups by Laura Flam
2023
The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
2023
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
2023
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
2023
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
2023
Weyward by Emilia Hart
2023
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
2023
The God of Endings: A Novel by Jacqueline Holland
2023
The End of the World is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy
2023
Holly by Stephen King
2023
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
2023
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
2023
Landscapes by Christine Lai
2023
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
2023
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
2023
Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling by Bricia Lopez
2023
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery
2023
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
2023
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
2023
Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
2023
North Woods by Daniel Mason
2023
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2023
Sidle Creek by Jolene McIlwain
2023
The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer
2023
Disruptions: Stories by Steven Millhauser
2023
Homestead: A Novel by Melinda Moustakis
2023
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
2023
Take What You Need by Idra Novey
2023
The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker
2023
The New Earth: A Novel by Jess Row
2023
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
2023
The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
2023
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
2023
Brutes by Dizz Tate
2023
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick
2023
Blackouts by Justin Torres
2023
We're Safe When We're Alone by Nghiem Tran
2023
The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay
2023
The Queer Film Guide: 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories by Kyle Turner
2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
2023
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
2023
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
2023
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
2023

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