The most popular fiction books of 2023

Fiction is every story that someone made up. Novels, short stories and tales of all kinds live here, from fantasy epics and murder mysteries to quiet books about ordinary lives. What they share is invention: the people and events come from an author's imagination, even when the setting is real. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.

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Secretly Yours
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Secretly Yours

Tessa Bailey

2023 · 2025 edition

384 pages

Light Bringer
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Light Bringer

Pierce Brown

Published 2023

683 pages

I Will Find You
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I Will Find You

Harlan Coben

2023 · 2025 edition

400 pages

The Nanny
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The Nanny

Lana Ferguson

Published 2023

421 pages

Good Bad Girl
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Good Bad Girl

Alice Feeney, Robert Benoit

2023 · 2025 edition

384 pages

North Woods
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North Woods

Daniel Mason

Published 2023

384 pages

The Echo of Old Books
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The Echo of Old Books

Barbara Davis, باربرا ديفيس, سوار أحمد قادرة

Published 2023

425 pages

Zero Days
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Zero Days

Ruth Ware

2023 · 2025 edition

480 pages

My Dark Romeo
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My Dark Romeo

Parker S. Huntington, L. J. Shen

Published 2023

366 pages

Unravel Me
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Unravel Me

Becka Mack

Published 2023

505 pages

The Guest
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The Guest

Emma Cline

Published 2023

304 pages

Blood & Steel
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Blood & Steel

Helen Scheuerer

2023 · 2026 edition

464 pages