{"id":48287,"count":24,"description":"With so much new fiction to choose from, it's not easy to find novels that are really worth spending your time reading. To help, we'll be collecting all our book recommendations relating to the best fiction of 2023 here. This includes novels picked by our deputy editor, Scotland-based author Cal Flyn, as well as books shortlisted for prestigious prizes, like the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.\r\n\r\nWe also enjoy genre fiction. We'll be keeping a running list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/mystery-books\/best-mystery-books-of-2023\/\">best mystery books of 2023,<\/a> and adding interviews about prize-winning\u00a0fiction books as they're announced by juries.\r\n\r\n<em>Our best fiction of 2023 list is part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/best-books-of-2023\/\">best books of 2023<\/a> series<\/em>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/best-fiction-of-2023\/","name":"Best Fiction of 2023","slug":"best-fiction-of-2023","taxonomy":"category","parent":11186,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/48287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11186"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=48287"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=48287"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=48287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}