The best new books of 2023 include a little something for everyone, whether it’s the “will they or won’t they?” intensity of a romance novel or the seismic revelations of a tell-all celebrity memoir. But all-encompassing variety is just the start of what this year’s latest and greatest releases have to offer.
From fizzy summer beach reads to highbrow literary fiction, 2023’s most noteworthy releases so far are highly personal and deeply memorable. At the start of the year, readers were treated to heartfelt debut novels by Jessica George and Delia Cai. Throughout the spring and summer, modern literary forces like Brandon Taylor, Ann Patchett, and Zadie Smith returned with highly anticipated novels that were worth the wait. The momentum isn’t ending with the calendar year, either. Books arriving in fall and winter include Elizabeth Hand’s bone-chilling A Haunting on the Hill and Class, Stephanie Land’s follow-up to her best-selling memoir Maid. From a study of Brooklyn’s gilded upper class in Pineapple Street to a scammer’s anxiety-inducing lurch through the Hamptons in Emma Cline’s The Guest, this year’s best new books hook you from the first scene. Their characters are so memorable, you’ll want to revisit them in the not-too-distant future. (Even the antiheroes.)
Read on for the best books of 2023 to add to your reading list now—and read a second time later—organised by release date. From the moment you pick them up, you won’t want to put them down. And if there’s a book lover in your life, any one of these titles would fit their definition of a luxury gift for the holiday season.
‘The Survivalists: A Novel’
The Survivalists is one of the year’s most noteworthy new books on premise alone. Aretha, a partner-track lawyer who thrives on corporate success, descends into the world of Armageddon bunkers and doomsday arms dealing after she begins dating a coffee entrepreneur whose roommates are preparing for all sorts of…
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