Indigo’s 10 Best Books of the Year for 2023
/For the last decade, Indigo has released its highly anticipated “Best Books of the Year” list, carefully curated by Indigo’s book experts who love books just as much as their customers do.
Indigo is so confident in its Best Books of the Year, this year they have deemed the top 10 novels “Guaranteed Reads,” meaning if you read it and don’t love it, you can return it! When it comes to book recommendations, Indigo is the expert in selecting a diverse range of captivating titles that are bound to have you hooked.
#10 Things We Do In The Dark: A Novel - Jennifer Hillier
Things We Do in the Dark is a brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future.
#9 Freezing Order: A true story of money laundering, murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin’s wrath - Bill Browder
Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.
#8 We Spread - Iain Reid
The author of the “evocative, spine-tingling, and razor-sharp” (Bustle) I’m Thinking of Ending Things that inspired the Netflix original movie and the “short, shocking psychological three-hander” (The Guardian) Foe returns with a new work of philosophical suspense.
#7 The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O’Farrell
From the author of the breakout bestseller Hamnet—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize—an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medic And her battle for her very survival.
#6 Scars and Stars - Indigo Edition: Poems - Jesse Thistle
An Indigo exclusive edition of the beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes, featuring a new afterword.
Fans of Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout his bestselling memoir. Here, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.
#5 Book Lovers - Emily Henry
An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry offers up the ultimate enemies-to-lovers, small town romance.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Today, Parade, Marie Claire, Bustle, PopSugar, Katie Couric Media, Book Bub, SheReads, Medium, The Washington Post, and more!
#4 Looking For Jane: A Novel - Heather Marshall
For readers of Joanna Goodman and Genevieve Graham comes a masterful debut novel about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose—inspired by true stories.
#3 Babel: An Arcane History - R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.
#2 Namwayut - We Are All One: A Pathway To Reconciliation - Chief Robert Joseph
We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one.Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder, and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope, collective change, and global transformation.
#1 Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng
From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, Our Missing Hearts is focused on themes of anti-Asian hate, discrimination, activism and assimilation, and is an unforgettable story of sacrifice and love. Diverging from her first two books, the novel takes readers on a wholly different journey from the one they have come to expect; one that Indigo strongly believes will resonate with customers and contribute meaningfully to the cultural zeitgeist.
