Read and Re-read | The Best Books of 2023 @readandre-read | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
I have finally settled on a top 12. And another 12. What were your favorites this year?

Top 12 in reading order:

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Stromness Dinner by Peter Benson
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
North Woods by Daniel Mason

The Runners Up:
Elena Knows by Claudia Piniero
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Erasure by Percival Everett