2023 Library Journal Best Books (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

Crime Fiction

Age of Vice
(*)
Deepti Kapoor

City Under One Roof
(*)
Iris Yamashita

Small Mercies
(*)
Dennis Lehane

All the Sinners Bleed
(*)
S.A. Cosby

A Disappearance in Fiji
(*)
Nilima Rao

The Golden Gate
(*)
Amy Chua

Mother-Daughter Murder Night
(*)
Nina Simon

The Secret Hours
(*)
Mick Herron

Guilt Strikes at Granger's Store
(*)
Terry Shames

Fall
(*)
Tracy Clark

Graphic Novels

The Naked Tree
(*)
Wan-Suh Park

Public Domain, Volume 1
(*)
Chip Zdarsky

Shubeik Lubeik
(*)
Deena Mohamed

Mister Mammoth
(*)
Matt Kindt

Impossible People
(*)
Julia Wertz

The Talk
(*)
Darrin Bell

Roaming
(*)
Jillian Tamaki

Monica
(*)
Daniel Clowes

Horror

How to Sell a Haunted House
(*)
Grady Hendrix

Don't Fear the Reaper
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

The Shoemaker's Magician
(*)
Cynthia Pelayo

Chlorine
(*)
Jade Song

Lone Women
(*)
Victor Lavalle

The Salt Grows Heavy
(*)
Cassandra Khaw

Camp Damascus
(*)
Chuck Tingle

Spin a Black Yarn
(*)
Josh Malerman

A Light Most Hateful
(*)
Hailey Piper

The Reformatory
(*)
Tananarive Due

Literary Fiction

The Covenant of Water
(*)
Abraham Verghese

This Other Eden
(*)
Paul Harding

Like the Appearance of Horses
(*)
Andrew Krivak

The Light at the End of the World
(*)
Siddhartha Deb

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(*)
James McBride

The Fraud
(*)
Zadie Smith

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

Wellness
(*)
Nathan Hill

The Wren, the Wren
(*)
Anne Enright

Let Us Descend
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

Tremor
(*)
Teju Cole

Pop Fiction

Pandora
(*)
Susan Stokes-Chapman

The Flames
(*)
Sophie Haydock

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
(*)
Claire Jimenez

Only the Beautiful
(*)
Susan Meissner

Yellowface
(*)
R.F. Kuang

Lucky Red
(*)
Claudia Cravens

The Breakaway
(*)
Jennifer Weiner

One Blood
(*)
Denene Millner

A Grandmother Begins the Story
(*)
Michelle Porter

Romance

Georgie, All Along
(*)
Kate Clayborn

Forever Your Rogue
(*)
Erin Langston

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
(*)
K.J. Charles

Ana Maria and the Fox
(*)
Liana De la Rosa

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
(*)
India Holton

The Boyfriend Candidate
(*)
Ashley Winstead

Mrs. Nash's Ashes
(*)
Sarah Adler

All the Right Notes
(*)
Dominic Lim

Chef's Choice
(*)
T.J. Alexander

How to Tame a Wild Rogue
(*)
Julie Anne Long

SF/Fantasy

The Shamshine Blind
(*)
Paz Pardo

The Terraformers
(*)
Annalee Newitz

World Running Down
(*)
Al Hess

The Magician's Daughter
(*)
H.G. Parry

The Mimicking of Known Successes
(*)
Malka Older

Some Desperate Glory
(*)
Emily Tesh

Chain-Gang All-Stars
(*)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Translation State
(*)
Ann Leckie

Generation Ship
(*)
Michael Mammay

We Are the Crisis
(*)
Cadwell Turnbull

Short Stories

Jewel Box: Stories
(*)
E. Lily Yu

I Am My Country: And Other Stories
(*)
Kenan Orhan

Sidle Creek: Stories
(*)
Jolene McIlwain

After the Funeral and Other Stories
(*)
Tessa Hadley

Disruptions: Stories
(*)
Steven Millhauser

Witness: Stories
(*)
Jamel Brinkley

Holler, Child: Stories
(*)
LaToya Watkins

Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
(*)
Kate Atkinson

Wednesday's Child: Stories
(*)
Yiyun Li

The Hive and the Honey: Stories
(*)
Paul Yoon

House Gone Quiet: Stories
(*)
Kelsey Norris

World Literature

Greek Lessons
(*)
Han Kang

I Went To See My Father
(*)
Kyung-Sook Shin

Milwaukee Blues
(*)
Louis-Philippe Dalembert

The Postcard
(*)
Anne Berest

Professor Schiff's Guilt
(*)
Agur Schiff

Kairos
(*)
Jenny Erpenbeck

Beyond the Door of No Return
(*)
David Diop

The Suicide Museum
(*)
Ariel Dorfman

The Body of the Soul: Stories
(*)
Ludmila Ulitskaya

Award Categories

Crime Fiction

Graphic Novels

Horror

Literary Fiction

Pop Fiction

Romance

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018