The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023

Lit Hub Staffers on the Year’s Best Reading Experiences

By Literary Hub | December 23, 2023

Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice

“Your only job is to find a way to secure enough time to keep throwing yourself into the void.”

By Blake Butler | December 22, 2023

Colm Tóibín! Geraldine Brooks! A guide to killing time! 19 books out in paperback this January.

Colm Tóibín! Geraldine Brooks! A guide to killing time! 19 books out in paperback this January.

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 22, 2023

Are you the Literary A**hole? <br>Ask Kristen Arnett.

Are you the Literary A**hole?
Ask Kristen Arnett.

By Jonny Diamond | December 21, 2023

We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears

E. Tracy Grinnell Talks to the Poet-Artist Team Behind Spectral Evidence

By E. Tracy Grinnell | December 21, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Daisy Hildyard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Nina McLaughlin and More

By Diana Arterian | December 21, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 21, 2023

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

By The Maris Review | December 21, 2023

The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

By Matthew Hays | December 20, 2023

Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court's Checkered Past and Future

Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court's Checkered Past and Future

Daniel Kiel and Lori Ringhand Speak with Stanford University Press

By Literary Hub | December 20, 2023

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | December 20, 2023

Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

Jane Smiley on What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned

In Conversation with Tai Caputo From Iowa City’s City High School Student Paper

By Tai Caputo | December 19, 2023

David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

David Remnick on the Continued Gift of the Written Word

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | December 19, 2023

The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray

The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray

Jonathan Russell Clark on Poor Things and Its Adaptation

By Jonathan Russell Clark | December 19, 2023

A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

A Look Inside the 17th-Century Witch Trials of the Arctic Circle

Chelsea Iversen Asks: What If Northern Norway’s Accused Witches Fought Back?

By Chelsea Iversen | December 19, 2023

Louise Kennedy on Discovering Fiction’s Complex Emotional Truths

Louise Kennedy on Discovering Fiction’s Complex Emotional Truths

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

By Jane Ciabattari | December 19, 2023

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