The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
The New Yorker
Best books of 2023
The New Yorker’s books of 2023: 24 main picks and 333 more recommendations, across fiction, poetry and nonfiction.
Main picks
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Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
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Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
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The Guest
Emma Cline
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Lorrie Moore
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Y/N
Esther Yi
Also recommended
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How to Build a Boat
Elaine Feeney
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Orbital
Samantha Harvey
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Wrong Way
Joanne Mcneil
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Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
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Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
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The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
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Holler, Child
LaToya Watkins
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Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Brooklyn Crime Novel
Jonathan Lethem
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Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
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A Council of Dolls
Mona Susan Power
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The Long Form
Kate Briggs
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A Haunting on the Hill
Elizabeth Hand
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The House of Doors
Tan Twan Eng
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The Vulnerables
Sigrid Nunez
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The Dimensions of a Cave
Greg Jackson
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Baumgartner
Paul Auster
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The Mysteries
Bill Watterson
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Monica
Daniel Clowes
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This Is Salvaged
Vauhini Vara
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This Won’t Help
Eli Grober
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Our Hideous Progeny
C. E. McGill
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Pet
Catherine Chidgey
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I Must Be Dreaming
Roz Chast
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Fire in the Canyon
Daniel Gumbiner
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Ladies’ Lunch
Lore Segal
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The English Experience
Julie Schumacher
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The Hive and the Honey
Paul Yoon
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Reproduction
Louisa Hall
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The Unsettled
Ayana Mathis
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The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright
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Loved and Missed
Susie Boyt
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The Glint of Light
Clarence Major
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The Pole
J. M. Coetzee
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Emergency
Kathleen Alcott
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The Caretaker
Ron Rash
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Wednesday’s Child
Yiyun Li
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The Suicide Museum
Ariel Dorfman
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I’m a Fan
Sheena Patel
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Witness
Jamel Brinkley
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
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Terrace Story
Hilary Leichter
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Hangman
Maya Binyam
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Temple Folk
Aaliyah Bilal
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Disruptions
Steven Millhauser
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The Peacock and the Sparrow
I. S. Berry
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The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa
Stephen Buoro
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The Centre
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
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Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
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Hope
Andrew Ridker
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Dykette
Jenny Fran Davis
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Nothing Special
Nicole Flattery
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Fire Rush
Jacqueline Crooks
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Snow Road Station
Elizabeth Hay
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Elsewhere
Yan Ge
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After the Funeral and Other Stories
Tessa Hadley
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A History of Burning
Janika Oza
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Tiger Work
Ben Okri
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The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
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The House Is on Fire
Rachel Beanland
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The Late Americans
Brandon Taylor
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Instructions for the Drowning
Steven Heighton
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Lament for Julia
Susan Taubes
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Be Mine
Richard Ford
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The Talk
Darrin Bell
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Commitment
Mona Simpson
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Take What You Need
Idra Novey
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The Weeds
Katy Simpson Smith
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Hungry Ghosts
Kevin Jared Hosein
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Girl Juice
Benji Nate
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A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
Jai Chakrabarti
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In the Orchard
Eliza Minot
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Shy
Max Porter
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Hit Parade of Tears
Izumi Suzuki
Translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen O’Horan and Daniel Joseph
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Impossible People
Julia Wertz
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Stealing
Margaret Verble
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Skip to the Fun Parts
Dana Jeri Maier
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Künstlers in Paradise
Cathleen Schine
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Small Mercies
Dennis Lehane
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In Memoriam
Alice Winn
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Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?
Zach Zimmerman
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The Laughter
Sonora Jha
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Steady Rollin
Fred Noland
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Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson
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A Spell of Good Things
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
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White Cat, Black Dog
Kelly Link
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The Great Reclamation
Rachel Heng
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An Autobiography of Skin
Lakiesha Carr
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Old God’s Time
Sebastian Barry
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The Dog of the North
Elizabeth McKenzie
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Users
Colin Winnette
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The Nature Book
Tom Comitta
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Big Swiss
Jen Beagin
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The Sun Walks Down
Fiona McFarlane
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Iron Curtain
Vesna Goldsworthy
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Brooklyn’s Last Secret
Leslie Stein
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I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
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Daughter in Exile
Bisi Adjapon
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This Other Eden
Paul Harding
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After Sappho
Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Victory City
Salman Rushdie
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Skull Water
Heinz Insu Fenkl
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The Sense of Wonder
Matthew Salesses
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The Guest Lecture
Martin Riker
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The New Life
Tom Crewe
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Wade in the Water
Nyani Nkrumah
