Readers’ Hit Books of 2023 (So Far, That Is)

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Another wrap up from Goodreads, that is sure to delight readers trying to catch up with 2023 reads!

Also, let’s admit it: everybody wants to be caught up with the hottest books of the year, especially before we have the chance of voting for them.

In case you’ve missed them, here is a quick overview divided by genres – I don’t have to tell you that my tbr got longer and longer…

Contemporary Fiction

• Hello Beautiful, by Ann Napolitano
• Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang
• Someone Else’s Shoes, by Jojo Moyes
• Maame, by Jessica George
• Pineapple Street, by Jenny Jackson
• The Collected Regrets of Clover, by Mikki Brammer
• Big Swiss, by Jen Beagin
• Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton
• Adelaide, by Genevieve Wheeler

Historical Fiction

• Weyward, by Emilia Hart
• The House of Eve, by Sadeqa Johnson
• River Sing Me Home, by Eleanor Shearer
• The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
• The House Is on Fire, by Rachel Beanland
• Hang the Moon, by Jeannette Walls
• Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?, by Crystal Smith Paul
• The Trackers, by Charles Frazier
• Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, by Lisa See

Mystery

• All the Dangerous Things, by Stacy Willingham
• The Housemaid’s Secret (The Housemaid #2), by Freida McFadden
• What Lies in the Woods, by Kate Alice Marshall
• I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai
• Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto
• Homecoming, by Kate Morton
• The Maid’s Diary, by Loreth Anne White
• I Will Find You, by Harlan Coben
• The Bandit Queens, by Parini Shroff

Fantasy

• Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1), by Rebecca Yarros
• Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2), by Leigh Bardugo
• A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos #0), by Samantha Shannon
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde #1), by Heather Fawcett
• Tress of the Emerald Sea (The Cosmere), by Brandon Sanderson
• Atalanta, by Jennifer Saint
• Witch King, by Martha Wells
• Victory City, by Salman Rushdie
• Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati

Science Fiction

• In the Lives of Puppets, by T.J. Klune
• The Ferryman, by Justin Cronin
• Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Ascension, by Nicholas Binge
• The Marriage Act, by John Marrs
• Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
• Children of Memory (Children of Time #3), by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Meru (The Alloy Era #1), by S.B. Divya
• The Endless Vessel, by Charles Soule

Horror

• How to Sell a Haunted House, by Grady Hendrix
• Lone Women, by Victor LaValle
• A House with Good Bones, by T. Kingfisher
• Don’t Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy #2), by Stephen Graham Jones
• Sisters of the Lost Nation, by Nick Medina
• Natural Beauty, by Ling Ling Huang
• Bad Cree, by Jessica Johns
• The Haunting of Alejandra, by V. Castro
• Looking Glass Sound, by Catriona Ward

Romance

• Happy Place, by Emily Henry
• Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Yours Truly (Part of Your World #2), by Abby Jimenez
• Final Offer (Dreamland Billionaires #3), by Lauren Asher
• Things We Hide From the Light (Knockemout #2), by Lucy Score
• Exes and O’s (The Influencer #2), by Amy Lea
• Meet Me at the Lake, by Carley Fortune
• The True Love Experiment, by Christina Lauren
• The Right Move (Windy City #2), by Liz Tomforde

Young Adult

• The Stolen Heir (The Stolen Heir Duology #1), by Holly Black
• Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours #3), by Cassandra Clare
• Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom #1), by Amélie Wen Zhao
• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute, by Talia Hibbert
• These Infinite Threads (This Woven Kindgom #2), by Tahereh Mafi
• The Davenports (The Davenports #1), by Krystal Marquis
• Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1), by Rebecca Ross
• Warrior Girl Unearthed, by Angeline Boulley
• Fortget Me Not, by Alyson Derrick

Nonfiction

• Spare, by Prince Harry
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann
• Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond
• A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin
• You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir, by Maggie Smith
• Quietly Hostile: Essays, by Samantha Irby
• A Living Remedy: A Memoir, by Nicole Chung
• King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig

Happy reading!