The brand new yr has already brought with it a crop of impressive, headline-driving books (see: Prince Harry’s explosive memoir Spare, and Kashana Cauley’s inventive The Survivalists), but the remainder of 2023’s library guarantees to be just as enthralling. Apologies upfront to your mile-high TBR list; it’s about to get loads taller.
Ahead, you’ll find 65 hand-picked titles, lots of which ELLE has already had the possibility to flip through and assess. These recently published and soon-to-be-released books come from a broad range of categories, including fantasy novels, historical nonfiction, celebrity memoirs, essay collections, romance, and literary fiction. (The one thing you won’t find here is young-adult books and series, which we reserve for other, more specific lists.)
Narrowing down probably the most anticipated titles from an inventory of hundreds is rarely not a frightening task, and so to make up for any gems we’ve missed, you may check back on this page as we update it all year long with the true better of the very best. Higher prepare your pre-orders, and completely happy reading.
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Soft Skull
The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley
Riverhead Books
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer
Random House
Spare by Prince Harry
Harper
Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois
William Morrow & Company
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
Henry Holt & Company
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
Ballantine Books
Central Places by Delia Cai
St. Martin’s Press
Maame by Jessica George
Riverhead Books
What Napoleon Could Not Do by DK Nnuro
Catapult
Brutes by Dizz Tate
Random House
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Hogarth Press
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez and translated by Megan McDowell
William Morrow & Company
Venco by Cherie Dimaline
W. W. Norton & Company
Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop by Martin Puchner
Viking
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Harper
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman
Soft Skull
Users by Colin Winnette
Bloomsbury Publishing
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
Zando
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Simon & Schuster
Confidence by Rafael Frumkin
Random House
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Pamela Dorman Books
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
Grand Central Publishing
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez
William Morrow & Company
Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Viking
Take What You Need by Idra Novey
Dial Press
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Crown Publishing Group
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Astra House
Y/N by Esther Yi
Little, Brown and Company
Above Ground by Clint Smith
Catapult
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer
Scribner Book Company
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Partitions
Ecco Press
A Living Treatment: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
Random House
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Mariner Books
Homecoming by Kate Morton
G.P. Putnam’s Sons
The One by Julia Argy
Doubleday Books
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Berkley Books
Completely satisfied Place by Emily Henry
Harper
Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst
Pantheon Books
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Counterpoint
You Are Here by Karin Lin-Greenberg
Viking
Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang
Random House
The Guest by Emma Cline
Vintage
Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby
William Morrow & Company
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Ballantine Books
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle
One World
Dances by Nicole Cuffy
Riverhead Books
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Flatiron Books
Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books
The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir
HarperOne
Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris
Hanover Square Press
Adult Drama: And Other Essays by Natalie Beach
Viking
Watch Us Dance by Leila Slimani and translated by Sam Taylor
Gillian Flynn Books
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein
Doubleday Books
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Scribner Book Company
Onlookers: Stories by Ann Beattie
Hanover Square Press
Bellies by Nicola Dinan
Catapult
Time’s Mouth by Edan Lepucki
Crooked Media Reads
Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
Henry Holt & Company
The Peach Seed by Anita Gail Jones
Ecco Press
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Ballantine Books
Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays by R. Eric Thomas
Gallery Books
Under the Influence by Noelle Crooks
Little Brown and Company
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
In the event you fell in love with How Much of These Hills Is Gold, you then, like I, are surely waiting with bated breath for C Pam Zhang’s next book, Land of Milk and Honey. We don’t know much concerning the story yet, but Zhang described it on Twitter as “a novel about food, female appetite, class, culinary hierarchy, & the sticky-sensual necessity of finding one’s own pleasure in a world gone to shit.” Sounds delicious.
Release date: TBA 2023.
Alright, one other disclaimer: I’m biased about this one. Our beloved site director, Jessica Roy, is releasing her first book later this yr, one which expands on an ELLE.com story she published in 2019. (You would possibly recall the title: “Two Sisters and the Terrorist Who Got here Between Them.”) We’re still waiting for all the main points, including the name and release date, but given the extent of reporting and nuance in Roy’s feature, I expect the following book to be nothing in need of breathtaking.
Release date: TBA 2023.
Lauren Puckett-Pope Culture Author Lauren Puckett-Pope is a staff culture author at ELLE, where she primarily covers film, television and books.
