More lists from 2023……….

This one from Shelf Awareness

Fiction America Fantastica by Tim O’Brien (Mariner) Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Ajdei-Brenyah (Pantheon) Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Ruiz (Little, Brown) In Memoriam by Alice Winn (Knopf) The Laughter by Sonora Jha (HarperVia) Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner) Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes (Avid Reader Press) Prophet by Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché (Grove Press) Shark Heart by Emily Habeck (Marysue Rucci Books) Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (MTV Books) Nonfiction Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World  by Christian Cooper (Random House) The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (Spiegel & Grau) Enlightened Transsexual Comix by Sam Szabo (Silver Sprocket) The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike (Scribner) How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair (Simon & Schuster) Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza (Catapult) The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elisabeth Rush (Milkweed) The Talk by Darrin Bell (Holt) You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith (One Signal/Atria) Zero at the Bone by Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)