14 books you need to read in 2023 *fiction*

they didn't quite make my top 16 but they are so wonderful

an absolutely stunning portrait of this one man's volatile life which is full of blackmail and drugs and murder and love and loss and family and dreams

they didn't quite make my top 16 but they are so wonderful

is disturbing and alarming and utterly devastating and I'd highly recommend

I loved it this book is so great it tows the line between tragedy and comedy

although I thought the book had some imperfections I thought it liked a little bit overall I really enjoyed it

Elektra was so great this is the story of the Trojan War but told from the perspectives of the female characters

the book just slowly builds up tension to this absolutely huge climax this huge Crescendo this incredible confrontation which is some of the best dialogue I have ever read in my entire life

this is a book you can just fly through and it's Bonkers but really good fun

I adored it and it's about these two girls who have just moved to New York

I'm glad my mom died which was my favorite Memoir

it's somber it's shattering it is deeply moving

this was the biggest surprise of the Year for me it's one of those books that has completely stayed with me since reading it

this book wrecked me wrecked me

this probably wins the award for the loveliest writing I read this year it was so Sublime

it is a work of arts so lyrical so self-assured so astute and just so Exquisite

they didn't quite make my top 16 but they are so wonderful

this is so razor sharp that at times it genuinely reads like a stand-up comedy routine

it is so poetic it's so tender you are literally swimming through gorgeous Bros but it's also crushing and heartbreaking

they didn't quite make my top 16 but they are so wonderful

they didn't quite make my top 16 but they are so wonderful

they didn't quite make my top 16 but they are so wonderful

they didn't quite make my top 16 but they are so wonderful