The books of 2023, in various combinations

In Order:

  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet 
  • All the Broken Places by John Boyne
  • The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
  • Spare by Prince Harry
  • Victory City by Salman Rushdie
  • I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
  • Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
  • The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
  • Hello, Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
  • The Hole We’re In by Gabrielle Zevin
  • This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
  • The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
  • The Guest by Emma Cline
  • Companion Piece by Ali Smith
  • Flight by Lynn Steger Strong
  • Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
  • The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
  • Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen
  • Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
  • The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
  • Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
  • The Lockup by John Banville
  • Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
  • The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • The Fraud by Zadie Smith
  • The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
  • The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
  • The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
  • Day by Michael Cunningham
  • In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
  • Family Meal by Bryan Washington
  • Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
  • Absolution by Alice McDermott

Favorites:

  • I Have Some Questions for You
  • The Thing About December
  • Minor Detail
  • Trespasses
  • Tom Lake
  • Small Mercies
  • The Covenant of Water
  • Trust
  • The Bee Sting
  • The Vaster WIlds
  • Absolution

Repeated authors:

  • Gabrielle Zevin
  • Hernan Diaz
  • Eleanor Catton

COVID books:

  • This Time Tomorrow
  • Companion Piece
  • The Hero of This Book
  • Tom Lake
  • Day

Irish or Northern Irish:

  • All the Broken Places
  • The Thing About December
  • Factory Girls
  • Trespasses
  • The Lockup
  • The Bee Sting
  • Old God’sTime

Mystery/thriller crossovers:

  • I Have Some Questions for You (ish)
  • Birnam Wood
  • The Guest
  • The Lockup
  • Small Mercies
  • Old God’s Time

Book-within-a-book or meta vibes

  • The Rehearsal
  • Trust
  • The Fraud

Wilderness survival:

  • The Vaster Wilds
  • In the Distance

No plot just vibes:

  • Dinosaurs
  • The Rabbit Hutch
  • Checkout 19
  • The Late Americans
  • Day
  • Family Meal

Would have forgotten if I didn’t keep a list:

  • Dinosaurs
  • All the Broken Places
  • The Rabbit Hutch
  • Victory City
  • The Hole We’re In
  • Flight
  • The Hero of This Book
  • The Lockup
  • Family Meal

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