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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

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

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 21, 2023

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

Tyriek White on Juxtaposing Brooklyn's History With Lived Experience

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 21, 2023

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The Complicated Experience of Reading a Late Friend’s Novel

By Matthew Hays | December 20, 2023

Andrew Pettegree on Books and War

By History of Literature | December 20, 2023

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

By Tai Caputo | 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

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

5 new books out today!

5 new books out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 19, 2023

The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of the Year

The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of the Year

On Wednesdays We Read Lit Hub

By Literary Hub | December 18, 2023

“I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

“I’m Not Really Interested in Creating Sympathetic Characters.” Rachel Connolly Talks to Lucie Elven

The Author of Lazy City on Creative Intentionality and Subverting the Trauma Plot

By Lucie Elven | December 18, 2023

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

Sakiru Adebayo on the Diasporization of African Literature

Writing Without the Certainty of Return

By Sakiru Adebayo | December 18, 2023

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

From Anne Carson Going Viral to the End of the Manuscript Thief Saga

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2023

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