The 10 Best Books of 2023

by The Wall Street Journal

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9 books

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See the source list and commentary at www.wsj.com

The Best Minds

A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen, 2023

A Dictator Calls

Ismail Kadare, 2023

The Lost Wife

Susanna Moore, 2023

An Ordinary Man

The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

Richard Norton Smith, 2023

Palestine 1936

The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

Oren Kessler, 2023

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan, 2023

The Sun Walks Down

Fiona McFarlane, 2023

The Two-Parent Privilege

How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

Melissa S. Kearney, 2023

The Wager

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann, 2023