Top 20 Books I Read in 2023

waiter in Paris might well be the book that I read in 2023 that I found most gripping most enjoyable on a page by- page basis

the novel was awesome by the way whoever did it you know thank you it's a great campass novel that taught me how the inner conflicts of Academia for instance between pragmatism and idealism between prophet and principle are really nothing new

this is almost a quietly amazing novel it's written in so beautifully and it's so engaging and so fun that I almost forgot how seriously it deals with its political and its historical themes

this is a very odd Beast it's very much of a companion piece to Jonathan Liam's Fortress of Solitude and I'm not sure how well it stands on its own legs that said it's still a novel from one of my very favorite writers

number 14 is Kook Manifesto Coulson white has second installment in his Harland Trilogy an incredibly fun incredibly gripping really funny really humorous novel which has lots to say about the demands of City Life

number two is germinal Emil zolah Masterpiece nightmare of industrial France a book that makes joanni verga read like manoni and Thomas Hardy read like Walter Scott the degree of its clinical insight ite into the psyche and the behavior of each character in its immense cast is stunning

Julius taranto how I won the Nobel Prize was by some margin my favorite debut novel from 2023 a novel full of moral and scientific dilemas set in a university for the disgraced it was equally uncomfortable and rewarding

her amazing novel of time travel probably the best time travel novel of all times definitely the best that I read at least

this is Italian naturalism at its best it's a novel about the intrigues and the hypocrisy of the Italian parliamentary system in the newly unified country at the end of the 19th century

mamed mugar sar's intriguing novel of writerly obsession and expert life a book that talks in a very courageous very Brave manner about what it means to build a life as a person of letters

Mrs caliban number seven was a perfect short novel of love and frog people a beautiful tale about a woman's desire to continue living in spite of her problems

my favorite history book from last year was revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark a great comprehensive fantastic account of the 1848 Revolutions a historical topic that I hold very dear and that it's as enthralling as it is baffling

this is an amazing work of art that takes as its springboard an investigation Into The Disappearance of ector maurana an Italian physicist and uses this topic as a way to discuss ethics in science

her novel of utopian societies and colliding World Views and political systems it's one of the most insightful science fiction novels I've read in recent years

The night ocean was very much of a Hidden Gem for me a bit like waiter in Paris it's a book that takes several of the boxes that I really care for

a hugely ambitious and complex novel about a set of unique complicated characters who all of them in their respective ways experience the ways in which trees are connected and bound to all life on Earth including human life

this is a book that is as funny as it is dark it's a book that deals with some of the darkest aspects of The Human Condition but that nonetheless manages to show great T tenderness fraternal love and even hope I was late reading this novel but I was absolutely Blown Away by it

speaking of Lovecraft the 20 days of T Le Torino is a lovecraftian treatment of the Italian years of lad the anomo in the 1970s is this is a book that is as eerie and as spooky as the sun can land

The flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner was a beautiful novel about political Intrigue and political violence and about a few really horrid men

it's a very funny novel although I would say that it's quasa Macho type of humor gets a little tiring toward the end of the book the book is however fully redeemed at least in my eyes by the tender Ness of its final Pages

the sunken land begins to rise again is an eerie story about an aquatic invasion in brexit England and about two characters going through a midlife crisis it's a very Sinister book

my favorite book from 2023 was the years by Anno and yes I know that the years is not technically fiction and I was planning to rank this as number zero to indicate both that it was at the top of the list but that it was also outside the list