The New York Times Book Review’s ‘10 Best Books of 2023’
The “New York Times Book Review” has published its highly acclaimed annual best books list. Seven of the ten titles on the “The 10 Best Books of 2023” list are published by Penguin Random House U.S. imprints. The list, published in the New York Times Literary Supplement, serves as an important buying recommendation for bookstores and readers across the country.
The book supplement of the renowned U.S. daily, “The New York Times,” has now published its highly acclaimed annual list of best books. And this year, seven of “The 10 Best Books of 2023” are published by Penguin Random House U.S. imprints. Booksellers and readers across the country are known to consult the annual NYT Book Review list for purchase recommendations.
This year, the U.S. publishing group is represented by three books in the Fiction category and four works in Nonfiction. In novels, “Chain-Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon), “The Fraud” by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press), and “North Woods” by Daniel Mason (Random House) made the top five. In Nonfiction, the editors of the “New York Times Book Review” selected “The Best Minds” by Jonathan Rosen (Penguin Press), “Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs” by Kerry Howley (Knopf), “Fire Weather” by John Vaillant (Knopf), and “Some People Need Killing” by Patricia Evangelista (Random House) made the top five.
The “The 10 Best Books of 2023” list is based on the “100 Notable Books of 2023” list published earlier by the “New York Times Book Review.” That list already featured an impressive 42 books from Penguin Random House U.S. publishers: 16 in the fiction and poetry category and 26 works of nonfiction books and biographies.