Best Contemporary Fiction Books of 2023

The inimitable and award-winning voice of Louise Erdrich is back, and this time she is taking on a tumultuous year with the help of a lovable, quirky cast of characters. An unexpected ghost story that is both a timely novel with laugh-out-loud moments as...

New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three...

"An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys––and the guilt––of trying to find your own way in life." ––Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author"Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes an emotionally layered and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear...

The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction.” —Washington Post...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by TIME, The Seattle Times, Good Housekeeping, Today.com, Southern Living, and CrimeReadsThe riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The...

What’s the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously...

This debut thriller by Ana Reyes is about the subtlety of memory and manipulation. Compelling, too. To tell you more would spoil those pages turned. And turn them you will. Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her...

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick“A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepare for the future, so much so she almost sold me on...

By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman.Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game...

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut NovelLonglisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceShortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel PrizeSelected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022!In this New York...

Intoxicatingly written, with a cast of characters to instantly fall for, Reid's debut is a nostalgia-fuelled trip into the hedonistic world of 70's L.A and the stratospheric rise and fall of a band whose sound defined an era. Everybody knows Daisy...

“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review“Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME“A revelation . . . [the] best horse book I’ve ever read.” —Jane...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, Elle, Southern Living, Bustle, and more“A vibrant and hilarious debut…Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth.” —Cynthia...

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret   The...

(Available after June 30th, 2023)This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe...

All’s fair in love and chemistry. It’s 1960s California and there are certain things that women just don’t do. When scientist Elizabeth Zott finds herself the host of a television cooking show, she kicks off a revolution that does more...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this “magical trip worth taking” (Associated Press), the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years returns with a powerful novel about the transformational love...