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2023 Year in Books

All books featured in The Hardcover 2023 Year in Books. This spans all categories and mentions including: top 10 of 2023, top 10 overall, top 5 by month, top 10 from a few genres, a couple of trends we saw and a most saved books releasing in 2024.

100 Places to See After You Die

2023 • 33 Readers • 304 pages 3.4

A Curse for True Love

#3 of 3 in Once Upon a Broken Heart

A Curse for True Love
ByStephanie Garber

2023 • 372 Readers • 383 pages 3.9

A Day of Fallen Night

#0 of 1 in The Roots of Chaos

A Day of Fallen Night
BySamantha Shannon

2023 • 623 Readers • 881 pages 4.3

A Fire in the Flesh

#3 of 5 in Flesh and Fire

A Fire in the Flesh
ByJennifer L. Armentrout

2023 • 140 Readers • 524 pages 3.8

A Fragile Enchantment

A Fragile Enchantment
ByAllison Saft

2024 • 175 Readers • 384 pages 3.6

Age of Vice

Age of Vice
ByDeepti Kapoor

2023 • 190 Readers • 488 pages 3.7

A House With Good Bones

2023 • 515 Readers • 256 pages 3.7

All the Light We Cannot See

2014 • 1,953 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

All the Sinners Bleed

2023 • 334 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

A Long Time Coming

#3 of 3 in Cane Brothers

A Long Time Coming
ByMeghan Quinn

2023 • 88 Readers • 450 pages 4

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

1970 • 290 Readers • 124 pages 3.7

A Rival Most Vial

A Rival Most Vial
ByR. K. Ashwick

2023 • 51 Readers • 340 pages 4.4

Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End

2023 • 10 Readers • 272 pages 3.8

A Study in Drowning

#1 of 2 in A Study in Drowning

2023 • 641 Readers 3.6

Big Swiss

Big Swiss
ByJen Beagin

2023 • 462 Readers • 336 pages 3.7

Blood & Steel

#1 of 4 in The Legends of Thezmarr

Blood & Steel
ByHelen Scheuerer

2023 • 139 Readers • 550 pages 3.7

Bride

#1 of 1 in Bride

Bride
ByAli Hazelwood

2024 • 890 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

Catastrophic Incentives

Catastrophic Incentives
ByJeff Schlegelmilch,Ellen Carlin

2023 • 7 Readers 4.5

Chain Gang All Stars

Chain Gang All Stars
ByNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

2022 • 612 Readers • 384 pages 4.2

Check & Mate

Check & Mate
ByAli Hazelwood

2023 • 467 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

Cleat Cute

Cleat Cute
ByMeryl Wilsner

2023 • 118 Readers • 328 pages 3.9

Cold People

Cold People
ByTom Rob Smith

2022 • 38 Readers • 368 pages 3

Counting the Cost

Counting the Cost
ByJill Duggar,Derick Dillard,+1 more

2023 • 123 Readers • 288 pages 3.9

Dead of Winter

Dead of Winter
ByDarcy Coates

2023 • 169 Readers • 394 pages 4

Defiant

#4 of 4 in Skyward

Defiant
ByBrandon Sanderson

2023 • 370 Readers • 432 pages 4.3

Divine Rivals

#1 of 2 in Letters of Enchantment

Divine Rivals
ByRebecca Ross

2023 • 1,176 Readers • 326 pages 4.1

Drowning

Drowning
ByT.J. Newman

2023 • 161 Readers • 276 pages 4

Elon Musk

Elon Musk
ByWalter Isaacson

2023 • 208 Readers • 558 pages 4.3

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

#1 of 3 in Emily Wilde

2022 • 1,330 Readers • 354 pages 4.1

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

#2 of 3 in Emily Wilde

2024 • 435 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

Extremely Online

Extremely Online
ByTaylor Lorenz

2023 • 70 Readers 3.7

Fathomfolk

#1 of 2 in Drowned World

Fathomfolk
ByEliza Chan

2024 • 131 Readers • 421 pages 2.8

Final Offer

#3 of 3 in Dreamland Billionaires

Final Offer
ByLauren Asher

2023 • 258 Readers • 583 pages 4

Fly with Me

Fly with Me
ByAndie Burke

2023 • 81 Readers • 384 pages 3.8

Fourth Wing

#1 of 3 in The Empyrean

Fourth Wing
ByRebecca Yarros

2023 • 3,297 Readers • 678 pages 4

Fox Snare

#3 of 3 in Thousand Worlds

Fox Snare
ByYoon Ha Lee

2023 • 12 Readers • 252 pages 3

Godkiller

#1 of 3 in Fallen Gods

Godkiller
ByHannah Kaner

2010 • 665 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

2023 • 215 Readers • 435 pages 3.8

Hallowe'en Party

#41 of 45 in Hercule Poirot

Hallowe'en Party
ByAgatha Christie

1963 • 291 Readers • 8 pages 3.4

Happy Place

Happy Place
ByEmily Henry

2023 • 1,072 Readers • 388 pages 3.8

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

#2 of 8 in Harry Potter

1998 • 4,922 Readers • 332 pages 4.2

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

#5 of 8 in Harry Potter

2003 • 4,477 Readers • 896 pages 4.3

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1989 • 6,387 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

Hell Bent

#2 of 2 in Alex Stern

Hell Bent
ByLeigh Bardugo

2022 • 831 Readers • 496 pages 4

He Who Drowned the World

#2 of 2 in The Radiant Emperor

He Who Drowned the World
ByShelley Parker-Chan

2023 • 207 Readers • 772 pages 4.3

Holly

#3 of 3 in Holly Gibney

Holly
ByStephen King

2023 • 532 Readers • 474 pages 3.9

Hopeless

#5 of 5 in Chestnut Springs

Hopeless
ByElsie Silver

2023 • 154 Readers • 363 pages 4

House of Flame and Shadow

#3 of 3 in Crescent City

House of Flame and Shadow
BySarah J. Maas,Valérie Janssen(Translator)

2024 • 660 Readers • 835 pages 4

How Does It Feel?

#1 of 3 in Infatuated Fae

How Does It Feel?
ByJeneane O'Riley

2023 • 107 Readers • 336 pages 3.6

Icebreaker

#1 of 3 in Maple Hills

Icebreaker
ByHannah Grace

2022 • 694 Readers • 448 pages 3.6

I Have Some Questions For You

2023 • 420 Readers • 449 pages 3.7

I, Human

I, Human
ByTomas Chamorro-Premuzic

2023 • 3 Readers • 219 pages

I'm Glad My Mom Died

I'm Glad My Mom Died
ByJennette McCurdy

2022 • 2,244 Readers • 313 pages 4.5

Immortal Longings

#1 of 2 in Flesh and False Gods

Immortal Longings
ByChloe Gong

2023 • 333 Readers • 384 pages 3.3

In The Likely Event

In The Likely Event
ByRebecca Yarros

2023 • 133 Readers • 552 pages 4

Iron Flame

#2 of 3 in The Empyrean

Iron Flame
ByRebecca Yarros

2023 • 1,804 Readers • 640 pages 4

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

2017 • 952 Readers • 416 pages 4.2

Lady Tan's Circle of Women

2023 • 255 Readers • 343 pages 4.3

Leave the World Behind

2020 • 460 Readers • 241 pages 3.3

Legends & Lattes

#1 of 1 in Legends & Lattes

Legends & Lattes
ByTravis Baldree

2022 • 2,285 Readers • 304 pages 4.2

Lessons in Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry
ByBonnie Garmus

2022 • 1,366 Readers • 386 pages 4.1

Le Syndrome Magneto

Le Syndrome Magneto
ByBenjamin Patinaud

2023 • 4 Readers • 310 pages 3.8

Lone Women

Lone Women
ByVictor LaValle

2023 • 297 Readers • 305 pages 3.9

Lords of Uncreation

#3 of 3 in The Final Architecture

Lords of Uncreation
ByAdrian Tchaikovsky

2023 • 177 Readers • 482 pages 4.2

Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life

2023 • 14 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

Love, Theoretically

Love, Theoretically
ByAli Hazelwood

2022 • 693 Readers • 389 pages 4.1

Maame

Maame
ByJessica George,Michał Kramarz(Translator)

2023 • 283 Readers • 608 pages 4.1

Making It So: A Memoir

Making It So: A Memoir
ByPatrick Stewart

2023 • 110 Readers • 480 pages 4.4

Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

2023 • 11 Readers • 334 pages 5

Meru

#1 of 2 in The Alloy Era

Meru
ByS.B. Divya

2023 • 107 Readers • 450 pages 3.7

Murtagh: The World of Eragon

#5 of 5 in The Inheritance Cycle

Murtagh: The World of Eragon
ByChristopher Paolini

2023 • 221 Readers • 662 pages 4

My Roommate Is a Vampire

#1 of 2 in My Vampires

2023 • 283 Readers • 341 pages 3.6

Nemesis

Nemesis
ByJeremy Robinson

10 Readers 4.9

Nimona

Nimona
ByN.D. Stevenson

2015 • 641 Readers • 272 pages 4.3

Not Your Pucking Girl

#1 of 1 in Kings of Denver

Not Your Pucking Girl
BySheridan Anne

2023 • 10 Readers • 276 pages 2.4

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

2023 • 363 Readers • 425 pages 4.3

Pageboy: A Memoir

Pageboy: A Memoir
ByElliot Page

2023 • 286 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

Plot Twist

#2 of 1 in The Hollywood Series

Plot Twist
ByErin La Rosa

2023 • 26 Readers • 335 pages 3.7

Poor Things

Poor Things
ByAlasdair Gray

1992 • 226 Readers • 315 pages 3.9

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 4,540 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

Radiant Sin

#4 of 8 in Dark Olympus

Radiant Sin
ByKatee Robert

2023 • 113 Readers • 320 pages 3.7

Red, White & Royal Blue

Red, White & Royal Blue
ByCasey McQuiston

2003 • 1,505 Readers • 448 pages 4

Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedy
ByCurtis Sittenfeld

2023 • 331 Readers • 300 pages 3.5

Ruthless Vows

#2 of 2 in Letters of Enchantment

Ruthless Vows
ByRebecca Ross

2023 • 498 Readers • 420 pages 4

Shortcomings

#9 of 6 in Optic Nerve

Shortcomings
ByAdrian Tomine

2007 • 63 Readers 3.2

Silent Coup

Silent Coup
ByClaire Provost,Matt Kennard

2023 • 15 Readers • 296 pages 3

Silver Nitrate

Silver Nitrate
BySilvia Moreno-Garcia

2023 • 409 Readers • 318 pages 3.7

Some Desperate Glory

2023 • 403 Readers • 448 pages 4

Spare

Spare
ByPrince Harry

2023 • 418 Readers • 410 pages 3.6

Starter Villain

Starter Villain
ByJohn Scalzi

2023 • 881 Readers • 262 pages 4

System Collapse

#7 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

System Collapse
ByMartha Wells

2023 • 807 Readers • 197 pages 4.1

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

#1 of 1 in Amina al-Sirafi

2010 • 816 Readers • 496 pages 4.3

The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King

#2 of 3 in Crowns of Nyaxia

2023 • 404 Readers • 624 pages 3.9

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

#0 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2020 • 1,517 Readers • 528 pages 3.7

The Blood Gift

#2 of 2 in The Blood Gift Duology

The Blood Gift
ByN.E. Davenport

2023 • 37 Readers • 464 pages 3.3

The Bone Shard War

#3 of 3 in The Drowning Empire

The Bone Shard War
ByAndrea Stewart

2022 • 97 Readers • 576 pages 3.6

The Book That Wouldn't Burn

#1 of 3 in The Library Trilogy

1994 • 757 Readers • 576 pages 4

The Bride Bet

#4 of 4 in Girl Meets Duke

The Bride Bet
ByTessa Dare

2024 • 48 Readers • 384 pages

The Brothers Hawthorne

#4 of 5 in The Inheritance Games

The Brothers Hawthorne
ByJennifer Lynn Barnes

2023 • 266 Readers • 473 pages 3.8