We’re closing out our reading years with today’s podcast episode, featuring the Best Books of 2023 Superlatives with Susie (@NovelVisits). Our wrap-up is split into two episodes: today’s Superlatives and next week’s Genre Awards. Today, we’re diving into more than 25 Superlative categories, including Most Deserving of the Hype, Biggest Surprise, the Darkest Book of the Year, and many others!
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Highlights
- Our best books of the year from over 25 categories, including:
- Most Deserving of the Hype
- FOMO-Worthy Book
- Third Time’s the Charm
- Darkest Book of the Year
- Top Underrated Gem
- Biggest Surprise
- The Book You Flew Through
- Most Polarizing Favorite
- Most Heartbreaking
2023 Superlatives [6:52]
Susie
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano | Amazon | Bookshop.org [7:03] & [24:25]
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [11:37]
- Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor | Amazon | Bookshop.org
[16:07]
- Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary | Amazon | Bookshop.org
- Western Lane by Chetna Maroo | Amazon
- The Future
by Naomi Alderman | Amazon
| Bookshop.org [29:44]
- Pete and Alice in Maine
- The Road to Dalton
- Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Amazon
- One Woman Show
- Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane | Amazon | Bookshop.org [46:41]
- Rootless
- The Postcard
- Happiness Falls
- Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:03:40]
Sarah
- The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue | Amazon | Bookshop.org [8:42]
- The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon | Amazon | Bookshop.org [13:10]
- Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson | Amazon | Bookshop.org [15:03]
- All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby | Amazon | Bookshop.org [18:43]
- Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent | Amazon
- All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay | Amazon | Bookshop.org [26:55]
- Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll | Amazon | Bookshop.org [28:21]
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai | Amazon
- I Could Live Here Forever by Hannah Halperin | Amazon | Bookshop.org [35:53]
- How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key | Amazon | Bookshop.org [38:44]
- Drowning by T. J. Newman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [42:11]
- Shark Heart by Emily Habeck | Amazon | Bookshop.org [45:09]
- Late Bloomers by Deepa Varadarajan | Amazon | Bookshop.org [48:01]
- Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:40]
- The Longest Race by Kara Goucher | Amazon | Bookshop.org [50:56]
- Tom Lake
- Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson | Amazon | Bookshop.org [1:01:01]
- We Were Once a Family
Other Books Mentioned
- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano [7:23]
- Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby [19:27]
- Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby [19:30]
- Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent [23:28]
- Talking at Night by Claire Daverley [24:30]
- Maame by Jessica George [24:32]
- The Power by Naomi Alderman [30:11]
- Wellness by Nathan Hill [31:30]
- Day by Michael Cunningham [31:32]
- Yellowface by R. F. Kuang [31:35]
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai [32:47]
- The Whispers by Ashley Audrain [37:03]
- The Push by Ashley Audrain [37:20]
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder [56:12]
About Susie Boutry
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Susie has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Some of her fondest childhood memories involve long afternoons at the library and then reading late into the night. More than ten years ago, she began journaling about the books she read and turned that passion into writing about books. Her first forays were as a guest reviewer on a friend’s blog, but she soon realized she wanted to be reviewing and talking about books on a blog of her own. From there, Novel Visits was born. That was in 2016 and, though the learning curve was steep, she loves being a part of the book community. Novel Visits focuses on new novel reviews (print and audio), previews of upcoming releases, and musings on all things bookish.
Next Episode
Next week (December 20), the second part of the year-end wrap-up with Susie: Best Books of 2023 Genre Awards.
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