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2023 Publishers Weekly Best Books (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

Top 10

The Talk
(*)
Darrin Bell

My Work
(*)
Olga Ravn

The Wren, the Wren
(*)
Anne Enright

The MANIAC
(*)
Benjamin Labatut

Same Bed Different Dreams
(*)
Ed Park

Comics

Blood of the Virgin
(*)
Sammy Harkham

Impossible People
(*)
Julia Wertz

Roaming
(*)
Jillian Tamaki

Monica
(*)
Daniel Clowes

Fiction

Age of Vice
(*)
Deepti Kapoor

Bariloche
(*)
Andres Neuman

This Other Eden
(*)
Paul Harding

Eastbound
(*)
Maylis De Kerangal

I Have Some Questions for You
(*)
Rebecca Makkai

A Cowardly Woman No More
(*)
Ellen Cooney

Greek Lessons
(*)
Han Kang

The People Who Report More Stress: Stories
(*)
Alejandro Varela

August Blue
(*)
Deborah Levy

Small Worlds
(*)
Caleb Azumah Nelson

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
(*)
James McBride

Terrace Story
(*)
Hilary Leichter

Beyond the Door of No Return
(*)
David Diop

The Fraud
(*)
Zadie Smith

North Woods
(*)
Daniel Mason

Company: Stories
(*)
Shannon Sanders

Let Us Descend
(*)
Jesmyn Ward

This Is Salvaged: Stories
(*)
Vauhini Vara

Tremor
(*)
Teju Cole

The Unsettled
(*)
Ayana Mathis

Middle Grade

A Dictionary of Scoundrels
(*)
Beth Lincoln

Simon Sort of Says
(*)
Erin Bow

Bea Wolf
(*)
Zach Weinersmith

The Eyes and the Impossible
(*)
Dave Eggers

The Probability of Everything
(*)
Sarah Everett

Mexikid
(*)
Pedro Martin

The Story of Gumluck the Wizard
(*)
Adam Rex

The Otherwoods
(*)
Justine Pucella Winans

Gone Wolf
(*)
Amber McBride

Jawbreaker
(*)
Christina Wyman

Remember Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Shira and Esther's Double Dream Debut
(*)
Anna E. Jordan

Duel
(*)
Jessixa Bagley

Mystery/Thriller

Everybody Knows
(*)
Jordan Harper

The Eden Test
(*)
Adam Sternbergh

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

The Devil's Playground
(*)
Craig Russell

A Most Agreeable Murder
(*)
Julia Seales

Excavations
(*)
Hannah Michell

Flags on the Bayou
(*)
James Lee Burke

How Can I Help You
(*)
Laura Sims

Strange Sally Diamond
(*)
Liz Nugent

Tell Me What I Am
(*)
Una Mannion

Bright Young Women
(*)
Jessica Knoll

The Most Secret Memory of Men
(*)
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Picture Books

An American Story
(*)
Kwame Alexander

Evergreen
(*)
Matthew Cordell

Ancient Night
(*)
David Bowles

Elena Rides
(*)
Juana Medina

The Tree and the River
(*)
Aaron Becker

Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?
(*)
Junauda Petrus

Big
(*)
Vashti Harrison

Summer Is for Cousins
(*)
Rajani LaRocca

When You Can Swim
(*)
Jack Wong

Before, Now
(*)
Daniel Salmieri

Mr. S
(*)
Monica Arnaldo

Oh, Panda
(*)
Cindy Derby

A Walk in the Woods
(*)
Nikki Grimes

Do You Remember?
(*)
Sydney Smith

Romance

I am Ayah-The Way Home
(*)
Donna Hill

We Could Be So Good
(*)
Cat Sebastian

To Have and to Heist
(*)
Sara Desai

The Art of Scandal
(*)
Regina Black

Every Duke Has His Day
(*)
Suzanne Enoch

A Shot in the Dark
(*)
Victoria Lee

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Our Share of Night
(*)
Mariana Enriquez

Some Desperate Glory
(*)
Emily Tesh

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

Like Smoke, Like Light: Stories
(*)
Yukimi Ogawa

Translation State
(*)
Ann Leckie

The Water Outlaws
(*)
S.L. Huang

The Circumference of the World
(*)
Lavie Tidhar

Young Adult

The King is Dead
(*)
Benjamin Dean

Blood Debts
(*)
Terry J. Benton-Walker

A Door in the Dark
(*)
Scott Reintgen

Spin
(*)
Rebecca Caprara

The Isles of the Gods
(*)
Amie Kaufman

Where You See Yourself
(*)
Claire Forrest

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
(*)
Thien Pham

Invisible Son
(*)
Kim Johnson

Mascot
(*)
Charles Waters

What Stalks Among Us
(*)
Sarah Hollowell

The Blood Years
(*)
Elana K. Arnold

The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay
(*)
Dale Walls

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