I’ve been keeping track of my top books of each year since 2001. I give you…the best books of 2023!

Key: A: Arabic, B: Black, C: Chinese, IP: Indian/Pakistani, L: Latine, O: Ojibwe,
Q: LBGTQIA+, W: Woman

Nonfiction

• Solito, by Javier Zamora (L)
• Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, by Soraya Chemaly (AW)
• Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough, by Candice Marie Benbow (BW)
• The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom, by Nikita Gill (IPW)
• Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future, by Patty Krawec (OW)
• My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen, by Suzanne Barr (BW)
• God Is a Black Woman, by Christena Cleveland (BW)
• My Year of Living Danishly, by Helen Russell
• The Light We Carry, by Michelle Obama (BW)
• Rita Moreno: A Memoir, by Rita Moreno (LW)
• Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection, by Jia Jiang (C)
• Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West, by Blaine Harden
• I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America, by Tyler Merritt (QB)
• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan
• Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life, by Sharon Blackie
• Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School, by Kendra James (BW)
• The Journey Toward Wholeness: Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation, by Suzanne Stabile
• Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery, by Harrison Mooney (B)
• Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur, by Donna Maltz
• Sex Cult Nun, by Faith Jones

Fiction

• The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See (CW)
• This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel
• The Opera Sisters, by Marianne Monson
• Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
• Hester, by Laurie Lico Albanese
• Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid (BW)
• Hello Beautiful, by Ann Neapolitano
• Mad Honey, by Jodi Picoult
• Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (BW)
• Circe, by Madeline Miller
• The Mistress of Bhatia House, by Sujata Massey (IPW)
• The Girl in His Shadow, by Audrey Blake
• Stateless, by Elizabeth Wein
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Carrie Soto Is Back, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Blackwater Falls, by Ausma Zehanat Khan (IPW)
• The It Girl, by Ruth Ware
• Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng (CW)
• Someone Knows, by Lisa Scottoline
• Pieces of Her, by Karin Slaughter