More Best Book Lists

This just in from Goodreads, books which were voted on by readers:

Best Fiction Yellowface, R. F. Kuang

Best Historical Fiction Weyward, Emily Hart

The author tells the story of three women across five centuries. In the Southern Review of Books, May 17, 2023, Nicole Yurcaba writes that the book is one that “hums with endurance and carfully places a magnifying glass over the complexities of the female experience.”

Best Nonnfiction Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond

Best History and Biography The Wager, David Grann

Book Browse Best of the Year

Top Debut In Memoriam, Alice Winn

Winn writes about two young men who fall in love during World War I. The New York Times calls it “the story of a great tragedy, but it is also a moving portrait of young love, and there is often a lightness to the book.”

Top Fiction The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese

Top Nonfiction The Wager, David Grann