Best Reads 2023
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- A video of my favourite reads in 2023.
Links below to the individual reviews of each book mentioned.
My favourite books released in 2023 - • Best Books of 2023!
Stella Maris Cormac by McCarthy - • Stella Maris by Cormac...
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - • One Hundred Years of S...
Midnights Children by Salmon Rushdie - • Midnight's Children By...
The Lies of Lock Lamora by Scott Lynch - • The Lies of Locke Lamo...
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu - • Solenoid By Mircea Că...
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai - • The Great Believers by...
The PoisonWood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - • The Poisonwood Bible B...
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - • Demon Copperhead By Ba...
Wellness by Nathan Hill - • Wellness by Nathan Hil...
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - • Lonesome Dove By Larry...
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride - • The Heaven & Earth Gro...
4321 by Paul Auster - • RECENT READS! 4321 by ...
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins - • The Library at Mount C...
Ohio by Stephen Markley - • Ohio By Stephen Markle...
Gilead by Marilyn Robinson - • RECENT READS! 4321 by ...
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan - • WOW!! The Whale By Che...
A slick looking video, loved the thumbnail. I’ll definitely be grabbing a few of these books. My go to guy for book recommendations 🤙 look forward to seeing more from you in 2024
Lies of Lock Lamora is one of my favs too! Agree that the characters are so great. Happy reading 😃
The absolute best I have read is Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes and 1000 Ships by Natalie Haynes. Beyond words for me, absolutely loved both.
I'm glad! I read two of this books a few years ago, Márquez and Rushdie, the Rest frist time here about it.
Recently discovered your channel after watching your review of The Poisonwood Bible and I am an instant fan! Very much appreciate how you describe not only the books but also your experience while reading the story, all without any distracting theatricals. It's wonderful how succinct you are in all your videos; you've gained a subscriber!
Lonesome Dove was my first western and great whether you love westerns or not. Streets of Laredo is almost as good.
Streets of Laredo was indeed excellent!
Lonesome Dove was my number 1 favourite read of 2023! Most of your other favourites are on my tbr, and I am now even more excited to get to them. (Not 100 Years of Solitude though. I absolutely hated Love in the Age of Cholera, and it has given me a real aversion against reading anything else by him.)
Other favourites, in no particular order, were The Green Mile by Stephen King, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, Lone Women by Victor LaValle, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and Fire Rush by Jaqueline Crooks. Honorable mention to the Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith. While no one individual book in the quartet was my favourite, as a series it has really stayed with me.
Great list, I can feel my TBR groaning as I add a couple of the ones I haven’t yet read.
My top three were Soldier, Sailor: The Bee Sting and A Month in the Country.
Happy New Year🎉
Oh my god, A Month in the Country! Absolute perfection on paper! 💚
This list is terrific! I've read 100 Years of Solitude, Poisonwood Bible, The Great Believers, Demon Copperhead, Gilead and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. The ones I read this year made my top list as well. Adding some of the ones I have not read to my TBR. Thanks!
Hi there. I enjoyed your list and have enjoyed your reviews since I found you a while back now! I think it must have been through searching for reviews of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which I also read this year, and it catapulted into my list of favorite books of all time. That list also includes the Poisonwood Bible, which I have recommended to others again and again with excellent results.
Anyway, happy new year. I appreciate your succinct and energetic style of review and enjoy the structure you give to them. It tells me everything I need to know in under 10 minutes. Ohio and The Whale are both on my TBR!
Obsessed with your taste, added a lot of these to my tbr! Thank you.
Lots of great books in this video. Thanks for putting this together.
If I had to choose a #1 for my 2023 favorite, it would be Lonesome Dove-- that was such a fantastic read!
A few books mentioned here I didn’t get to last year so hoping to read early this year - Ohio, Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead
Thanks for your list. I bought Solenoid, Midnight's children and Wellness yesterday. I'll have my work cut out the next couple of weeks. 😊
My best reads of 2023:
Heaven-Mieko Kawakami (not as great as breasts and Eggs, but beautiful and heart-breaking.
The queens of Sarmiento Park-Camila Sosa Villada (If you like magic realism, I would highly recommend this one)
Small Things like these-Claire Keegan
Juno Loves Legs-Karl Geary
Brainworms-Alison Rumfitt
Chain-Gang All-Stars-Nana Kwame Adje-Brenyah
Equal Danger-Leonardo Sciascia
Big Swiss-Jen Beagin
Exciting Times-Naoise Dolan
And my number 1, by miles:: The Maniac-Benjamin Labatut.
Thank you for sharing those book recommendations. Several titles from your list are among my favorite reads of all time. Every book I've explored based on your suggestions has been fantastic. I appreciate your great reviews and excellent reading taste .
some of my all time favourites came to mid while I was listening to you
I would love to know if your read any and what are your thoughts opinion if you did
"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keye
"Blindness" by José Saramago
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Half a yellow Sun or purple hibiscus by chimamanda ngozi adichie
any works by Khalid Husseini
Thank you!
Haha, pretty much every book on your list is in my wish list. Can’t wait to get to them.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is tremendous. I was thrilled with the Barbara Kingsolver double feature. Lonesome Dove is such a fun and intelligent book. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store = 🤌💋. I really do need to get to Ohio (and several others on this list). Gilead 👏👏👏. In other words, this was a fun ride full of great books. Thanks!
I did really enjoy 4321 when I read it, but it is one I am scared to reread because I have the feeling it might not have aged that well, so it is nice to know that you still enjoy it :) I also unfortunatley just DNFed Solenoid, too visceral for me and not interested in the topics, but I get why people are interested.
Great list! So many new to me books to add to my TBR. 😅 I love 100 Years of Solitude. I recently re-read it in Spanish and I feel like that added a lot to the experience.
I feel exactly the same way about Gilead. I've read the next two books in the series (Home and Lila,) and, read all together, I found
"....a gorgeous, layered, nuanced look at small town America, full of beauty and peace; truly home."
⬆️ (from my goodreads review)
I haven't yet read Jack, the 4th book in the series, but I'm dying to.
I *loathe* westerns, but Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite books ever. 💚
Read "Gilead" and "Home" this past summer. Very moving, graceful novels. Looking forward to reading "Lila" soon.
thanks for this. Just what I need - more books to add to my TBR. This is my list: The Marriage Portrait, Demon Copperhead, Milkman, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, Trespasses, Time Shelter, Boulder, Black Butterflies, How Much of These Hills is Gold, Old God's Time, Beyond the Door of No Return, The Words That Remain, Chain-Gang All-Stars.
Now that’s a solid list!!
Great list! Some of my favorites were:
. Snow Country by Kawabata
. The Silmarillion by Tolkien
. Human Acts by Kang
. Goblin Market by Rossetti
. Persuasion by Austen
. The Case Against Satan by Russell
. Hangsaman by Jackson
. Killers of the Flower Moon by Grann
Just to name a few!
Mortality’s our adversarial,
but what eternity is in thy heart?
whose valves concede a path for fairytales,
and leaves thy loved-ones grieved when it departs.
Our planet swings its feet before the stars
the way we did so on a Nile pier.
Though vanishing our feet were born to march,
instead we swung our feet within the air.
Why don’t you call that heart a miracle?
and spend this fleeting time forever free.
The 9 to 5 our adversarial!
and then the reaper’s scythe will never speed.
We have eternity for now. Why work?
The Nile never taxed the graceful stork.
a sonnet i've written
Adding ALLLL of these to my TBR 😍 (except of course you love long books and I really dislike them... but I trust your recs!)
been meaning to get to this video for a while now and so glad i finally did!
happy to see such mammoths in the stack! Solenoid is incredible! and Whale! ahhh too much fun!
so sad i didn't get a chance to beat you at trivia lol but maybe in the near future >:)
Lonesome Dove was such a wonderful reading experience. I DNF'd Demon Copperhead; it kept getting more boring, bogged down and slow as it went on.
Hated Copperhead
I read The Library at Mount Char this year, not my usual genre. It was a wild ride!
Who else was absolutely shocked when Demon Copperhead made the cut 😅😮😮😮
😂
I detested Demon Copperhead. Bland, weak characters and dumb dialog. Ugh!
The Bean Trees is a nice read too.
The Library at Mount Char is one of my favorite books. I struggle to recommend it because of how disturbing and unsettling it can be, but I love it so much!
4 3 2 1 sounds excellent, I remember reading The New York Trilogy about 10 years ago and loved it. I’m excited for Wellness, I presume the 19th Sep release date was for the US edition because my local bookshop, Waterstones and Blackwells all couldn’t get a copy until the end of Jan. I’ve put my order in either way!
Hi, I watch every video and take into considerations your recommendations and have read most. I always like each one, don't always comment, but did subscribe. I always look forward to your videos and search if you don't come up right away. Thanks for a great year, all the best reading ahead. Best M.
Really enjoy your content. Was wondering if you've ever done a segment on classic novels. Would be interested to hear your opinions.
I haven’t. But good idea!
❤ RUSHDIE FAM ❤
I LOVED Solenoid. Read it in 22.
I feel like nobody has read Ohio but it is an exceptional book
Ohio is fantastic.
Tried to read 100 Years Of Solitude when I was a teenager and was a DNF, but you’ve inspired me to give it another go 2 plus decades later. Read Gliead back in like 2005 & recall loving it, but not much else. Demon Copperhead is the only other 📖 on your list I’ve read, but it was in my top 3 of the year 📖🪱💚