Hi guys! As the end of the year is approaching… what have been your top 3 books for 2023? I want to hear about your favorites/most memorable reads across all genres that you finished this year.
Mine are as follows…:
- Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll: It was so good I stayed in bed on a Saturday night eating ice cream with my phone on DND to finish the last 100 pages in one sitting lmao.
- The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: first book that made me cry in a while.
- Still Life by Louis Penny: these books are such a vibe and I love how they are so immersive. It’s like a mini adventure-vacation to Quebec every time I read any of the novels from this series, but this one was the first one that got me totally hooked!
Notable mention: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
Posting before we enter December so that this racks up a loooong list of recommendations to check out for 2024.
I’m almost positive some are slipping my mind. But two that I read this year that I really enjoyed are:
– The Garden of Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol. A story about a group of people who wait out a bomb scare by retreating to a wealthy guy’s isolated chateau in Spain. While they’re there, they contend with their interpersonal stuff, but also tell each other stories to pass the time. And it gradually becomes clear that the material and characters in the story show that there’s more going on with the guests (in the present) than they’re letting on. It was so engrossing and so well-written. Like an onion I wanted to get to the bottom of. Highly recommended.
– Dead Babies by Martin Amis. When Amis passed this year, I decided to give some of his novels I hadn’t tried a go. I only read one or two of his books before and wasn’t super into them. But this was a whole different story. Part dark British farce. Part comedy of manners between a group of bohemian students on a wild weekend. And things get pretty wild and hilarious. Several of the moments in the novel live rent-free in my head now. Also highly recommended.