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.
It’s so hard to only pick 3, but I think I’d say:
Life Ceremony, a short story collection by Sayaka Murata. Everything she writes is strange and disturbing and beautiful, hard to describe. I read it in a forest sitting in a tree branch with a nice butt-sized bend in it, too, making it doubly memorable.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. His prose is just incredible and I’m a sucker for Faustian tales.
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman. I wish this book would become insanely popular and start a bunch of literary trends lol. Never has an author written something that made me and the way I think feel so seen. Surreal, increasingly sci-fi, often funny, and always disturbing take on humans’ relationship to resources and ecological systems in the 21st century.