Barnes & Noble Best Books of the Year 2023

Best Fiction of 2023

• The God of Endings, Jacqueline Holland (Flatiron)
• Yellowface, R.F. Kuang (William Morrow)
• Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon)

Best Mystery of 2023

• All the Sinners Bleed, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)

Best Science Fiction of 2023

• From a Certain Point of View, Anonymous, ed. (Random House Worlds)
• Light Bringer, Pierce Brown (Del Rey)
• On Earth as It Is on Television, Emily Jane (Hyperion)
• Translation State, Ann Leckie (Orbit)
• The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz (Tor)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (Tordotcom)
• Fractal Noise, Christopher Paolini (Tor)
• Starter Villain, John Scalzi (Tor)
• Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh (Tordotcom)
• Star Bringer, Tracy Wolff & Nina Croft (Entangled)

Best Romance of 2023

• A Soul of Ash and Blood, Jennifer L. Armentrout (Blue Box)
• Happy Place, Emily Henry (Berkley)
• Hunt on Dark Waters, Katee Robert (Berkley)

Best Fantasy of 2023

• Bookshops & Bonedust, Travis Baldree (Tor)
• Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
• The Hurricane Wars, Thea Guanzon (Harper Voyager US)
• Starling House, Alix E. Harrow (Tor)
• Assistant to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maerer (Entangled)
• Thrones of the Fallen, Kerri Maniscalco (Little, Brown)
• The Fragile Threads of Power, V.E. Schwab (Tor)
• A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury)
• Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros (Entangled)
• Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros (Entangled)

Best Horror of 2023

• Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird, Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses (Scribner)
• What Kind of Mother, Clay McLeod Chapman (Quirk)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
• A Haunting on the Hill, Elizabeth Hand (Mulholland)
• How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
• The Dead Take the A Train, Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey (Nightfire)
• Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
• Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, ed. (Random House)
• Monstrilio, Gerardo Sámano Córdova (Zando)

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