December 23, 2023
This roundup of our 25 bestselling books from 2023 can act as a last-minute holiday gift guide for your family and friends—or for yourself, as you prepare your 2024 reading list. What other present can expand our minds, take us to new places, allow us to picture ourselves in another person’s shoes, and hold up a mirror for us to know ourselves better?
As ever, thanks for your ongoing support and patronage. We are so very grateful. From all of us at The Center for Fiction, we wish you a very happy, healthy, and safe holiday.
See you in the New Year,
Melanie Fleishman
Buyer, The Center for Fiction Bookstore
The Apple in the Dark
Claire Lispector
Translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead
Family Lore
Elizabeth Acevedo
Fat Ham
James Ijames
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
Francisco
Alison Mills Newman
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
The Guest
Emma Cline
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Lorrie Moore
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
The Iliad
Homer
Translated from the Ancient Greek by Emily Wilson
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Monstrilio
Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri & Todd Portnowitz
Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
The Wager
David Grann
We Are a Haunting
Tyriek White
The Wren, the Wren
Anne Enright
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang