Best Contemporary Fiction Books of 2023

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...

“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...

(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...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is...

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla...

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.“Sometimes the universe throws you a...

Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island."This roiling beach community satire serves up wicked, clever...

Small Mercies is Dennis Lehane’s latest novel since 2017’s Since We Fell. As with the best of Lehane’s work, a thriller is perfectly blended with issues of social injustice. Dennis Lehane uses the eyes of a detective and the...

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend...

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.A misstep at a dinner party, and the...

350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films: NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAMThe Boys from Biloxi continues to cement John Grisham as our preeminent storyteller when it comes to mysteries, thrillers, and court room dramas. He is always...

(Available after July 30th, 2023)Ruth Ware stopped us in our tracks with her 2015 debut In a Dark, Dark Wood. We’ve followed her step by step as if moving through foggy landscape, and now we’ve arrived at the door to her eighth book, Zero Days. Please...