Selected 2023 Reading for the end of year list:

Fiction Novels/Novellas

• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
• Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
• Boyfriends by Tara Atkinson
• I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
• History of Present Illness by Anna Deforest
• Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen
• Youth by Tove Ditlevsen
• Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
• Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
• The Shame by Makenna Goodman
• The Great Transition: A Novel by Nick Fuller Googins
• This Other Eden by Paul Harding
• The Long Answer by Anna Hogeland
• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez
• Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
• Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
• Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
• I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel
• Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist
• The Group by Mary McCarthy
• People Collide by Isle McElroy 
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
• Mistborn: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson 
• Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson 
• Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
• Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• System Collapse by Martha Wells
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabbrielle Zevin

Short Stories

• Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• People Want to Live by Farah Ali
• Almost Famous Women: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman
• How Strange a Season by Megan Mayhew Bergman
• Out There by Kate Folk
• Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma
• Self-Help by Lorrie Moore

Art

• Eye Mama by Karni Arieli
• A Comic Year by Meg Reynolds
• Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur

Poetry

• Gravitas by Amy Berkowitz
• Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley 
• Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland
• Tap Out by Edgar Kunz
• Fixer by Edgar Kunz 
• Does the Earth by Meg Reynolds

Nonfiction

• Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell 
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• The Highs and Lows of Shape-Shift Ma and Big-Little Frank by Frances Cannon
• The Loneliness Files by Athena Dixon
• Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
• The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick
• Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Triscia Hersey
• Stay True by Hua Hsu
• Good Inside by Becky Kennedy
• The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh
• Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
• Enchantment by Katherine May
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
• Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland
• The Light Room: On Art and Care by Kate Zambreno