The list for Amazon’s Best Books of 2023 has been released, and it includes some highly anticipated titles. Let’s take a closer look at the top picks and see why they are generating so much buzz.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel by James McBride
A novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
The Berry Pickers: A Novel by Amanda Peters
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years.
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
One of the most astonishing true-crime stories of the twenty-first century: the life of Stéphane Breitwieser, the world’s most prolific art thief.
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean Book 1) by Rebecca Yarros
Friends, enemies, and lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has a plan—there are only two ways out once you enter: graduate or die.
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in decades. It is vividly written and thoroughly researched.
Wellness: A Novel by Nathan Hill
Wellness, which draws on the oddities of contemporary culture, reimagines the love narrative with a healthy dosage of intelligence, irony, and heart.
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
A magnificent and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family looking for answers to a peculiar truth.
Holly by Stephen King
In this exciting tale, Holly Gibney returns to uncover the horrible truth behind a series of disappearances in a Midwest hamlet.
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
This is the amazingly intimate story of our generation’s most fascinating and controversial innovator—a rule-breaking visionary who helped usher in the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence.
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
An all-consuming drama of revenge, familial love, festering hatred, and creeping power set against one of Boston’s most turbulent periods.
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
A narrative about family—the ones we’re born into, the ones we marry into, and the ones we create—and how, despite grief and broken connections, hope can still be discovered.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
A page-turning tale of disaster, survival, and cruelty, ending in a court martial that discloses a horrifying reality.
Let Us Descend: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
Let Us Descend is a stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking portrayal of American slavery.
Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick by Deepti Kapoor
Paced like a television series, this rich and fascinating novel will keep you on the edge of your seat, eagerly expecting the next installment of the trilogy as you cheer for each character to find their place in the world.
The Future by Naomi Alderman
A stunning feat de force in which a group of friends plan a daring heist to save the world from the tech titans whose greed endangers life as we know it.
Bright Young Women: A Novel by Jessica Knoll
The narrative begins on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-famous murderer attacks a Florida sorority home with fatal consequences.
Pomegranate: A Novel by Helen Elaine Lee
She is almost finished serving her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and reclaim custody of her two children.
The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel (Molly the Maid Book 2) by Nita Prose
Molly Gray is unlike everyone else. With her talent for cleaning and good manners, she has climbed through the ranks of the magnificent five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the acclaimed Head Maid.
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland by Scott Shane
A fascinating biography of the heroic abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, guided hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad.
All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel by S.A. Cosby
A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.
