Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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These are my favourites from the novels written in English and published in 2023 that I read over the year. I don't claim that they are the best but they are the ones that I most enjoyed or appreciated.

0:00 Intro
1:35 Five quick honourable mentions
4:45 Two brilliant books I won't rank: Death Of The Author (in triplicate) by Marc Nash @MarcNash and The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden ‎‎@katiejlumsden
8:45 Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
10:44 All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd Barlow
12:50 Orbital by Samantha Harvey
14:06 Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
16:06 For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie
20:24 The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
22:20 Cuddy by Benjamin Myers