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Best of 2023 List Details
As Gods Among Men | Guido Alfani
A New Statesman Best Book of the Academic Presses
The Joy of Science | Jim Al-Khalili
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Night Vision | Mariana Alessandri
A NPR Book We Love
The Good-Enough Life | Avram Alpert
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Rough Draft of History | Edwin Amenta and Neal Caren
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Fool | Peter Andersson
A History Today Book of the Year
A Vertical Art | Simon Armitage
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Democracy Erodes from the Top | Larry M. Bartels
A Foreign Affairs Best of Books
Plato Goes to China | Shadi Bartsch
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
The Dean of Shandong | Daniel A. Bell
A Financial Times Best Book of the Summer
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year - Politics
Scythian Empire | Christopher Beckwith
A New Yorker Best Book We’ve Read This Year
A History Today Book of the Year
Political Rumors | Adam J. Berinsky
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Proof Stage | Stephen Abbott
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 | Alan S. Blinder
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
” You Are Not Expected to Understand This” | Torie Bosch
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The New Makers of Modern Strategy | Hal Brands
A Project Syndicate Best Reads in 2023
The Man Who Organized Nature | Gunnar Broberg
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
Journeys of the Mind | Peter Brown
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
A History Today Book of the Year
Through the Eye of a Needle | Peter Brown
A Baptist Times Book of the Year
24/7 Politics | Kathryn Cramer Brownell
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book We’ve Read This Year
A Crash Course on Crises | Markus Brunnermeier
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: Economics
Queer Career | Margot Canaday
A Chronicle of Higher Eduction Best Scholarly Book of the Year
Failures of Forgiveness | Myisha Cherry
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
Utopianism for a Dying Planet | Gergory Claeys
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Period | Kate Clancy
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
A Science News Best Book of the Year
A Scientific American Best Book of the Year
The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level | John Cochrane
An Economist Best Book of the Year
Talking Cure | Paula Marantz Cohen
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
Radical by Nature | James T. Costa
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Terns of North America | Cameron Cox
An American Birding Association Best Book of the Year
A Birdbooker Report Best Book of the Year
Virtual You | Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield
A Financial Times Best Book of the Summer
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: Science
The Chapter | Nicholas Dames
A New Yorker Best Book We’ve Read This Year
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
The Proof Stage | Stephen Abbott
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Discriminatory Clubs | Christina L. Davis
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Economics in America | Angus Deaton
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year:Economics
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
Parfit | David Edmonds
A New Yorker Best Book We’ve Read This Year
A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book
A Time Best Thought and Ideas Book
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
A Prospect Notable Book of the Year: Lives
A FiveBooks Best Philosophy Book of the Year
The Chile Project | Sebastian Edwards
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: Economics
A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book
A ProMarket Best Political Economy Book
Ancient Africa | Christopher Ehret
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
How to Do Things with Emotions | Own Flanagan
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Robespierre | Marcel Gauchet
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Philosophy of Beauty | Michael B. Gill
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Road to Dien Bien Phu | Christopher E. Goscha
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Enchanted by Daphne | Peter R. Grant
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Betye Saar | Diana Seave Greenwald
An Art Newspaper Best Book of the Summer
Sacred Foundations | Anna M. Grzymała-Busse
A Financial Times Best Book of the Summer
A Democracy Paradox Absolute Must Read Book About Democracy
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: History
How Women Became Poets | Emily Hauser
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
Christianity’s American Fate | David A. Hollinger
A Word & Way Book of the Year
Birds of Belize | Steve N. G. Howell and Dale Dyer
An American Birding Association Best Bird Book of the Year
Birds of Costa Rica | Steve N. G. Howell and Dale Dyer
An American Birding Association Best Bird Book of the Year
Pandemic Politics | Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Thomas B. Pepinsky
A Foreign Affairs Best of Books
The Manhattan Nobody Knows | William Helmreich
A Forbes Best Book About or Set in New York City
On Czeslaw Milosz | Eva Hoffman
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
Black Grief/White Grievance | Juliet Hooker
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
Rain of Ash | Ari Joskowicz
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Freedom from Fear | Alan S. Kahan
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: Economics
The Aesthetic Cold War | Jason König
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Folds of Olympus | Stephen Abbott
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Groundwork | David Young Kim
An Apollo Book of the Year
Translating Myself and Others | Jhumpa Lahiri
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century | Richard N. Langlois
A Foreign Affairs Best of Books
Field Guide to North American Flycatchers | Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch
An American Birding Association Best Bird Book of the Year
A Birdbooker Report Best Book of the Year
Revolution and Dictatorship | Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Adam Smith’s America | Glory Liu
A Wall Street Journal Five Best Biographies of Economists
Belief and Cult | Jacob L. Mackey
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Civic Bargain | Brook Manville and Josiah Ober
A New Yorker Best Book We’ve Read This Year
Pentagons and Pentagrams | Eli Maor and Eugen Jost
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A City Is Not a Computer | Shannon Mattern
A Verge Readers Best Tech Book of All Time
The Voices of Nature | Nicolas Mathevon
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Dividing Paris | Esther da Costa Meyer
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Free Agents | Kevin J. Mitchell
A New Statesman Best Book of the American Presses
Surreal Spaces | Joanna Moorhead
A Millions Most Anticipated 2023 Book
Virtuous Bankers | Anne Murphy
A Financial Times Book We’re Looking Forward To
The Hidden Company That Trees Keep | James B. Nardi
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Balanced Brain | Camilla Nord
A Times Best Science and Environment Book
The Lion | Craig Packer
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
What the Thunder Said | Jed Rasula
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Viruses | Marilyn J. Roossinick
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Three Roads Back | Robert Richardson
A New Yorker Best Book We’ve Read This Year
Life is Short | Dean Rickles
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Up from the Depths | Aaron Sachs
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Soviet Century | Karl Schlögel
A Financial Times Best Book of the Summer (x2) (history) (critics’ picks)
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: History
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
Objects in Exile | Robin Schuldenfrei
One of Metropolis’ 10 Architecture and Design Books Worth Adding to Your Reading List
The Synthetic University | James L. Shulman
A Forbes Best Higher Education Book
Algorithms for the People | Josh Simons
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Yellowstone’s Birds | Douglas W. Smith
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Human Rights for Pragmatists | Jack Snyder
A Foreign Affairs Best of Books
Alloys | Marin R. Sullivan
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars | Lixing Sun
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Writing with Pleasure | Helen Sword
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Sky is for Everyone | Virginia Trimble and David A. Weintraub
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Wife of Bath | Marion Turner
A New Yorker Best Book We’ve Read This Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Summer
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
The Wordhord | Hana Videen
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Life and Death of States | Natasha Wheatley
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A New Statesman Book of the Year
The Little Book of Exoplanets | Joshua N. Winn
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Career Arts | Ben Wildavsky
A Forbes Best Higher Education Book
The Roots of American Individualism | Alex Zakaras
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Individualists | Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi
A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book
Disrupting D.C. | Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen
A Bloomberg Book About Cities We Read
A LA Times Best Tech Book
The Man Who Understood Democracy | Oliver Zunz
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year