Books I Read and Loved in 2023

From Amazon: A comedy author thinks she’s sworn off love, till a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions.

From Amazon: An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel a few nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one lady’s last semester at an elite New England school into controversy and chaos―and into an ill-advised affair with a married professor.

From Amazon: “Half boarding college drama, half forensic whodunit, I Have Some Questions for You is a real literary thriller—haunting and exhausting to place down.” —Jennifer Egan, creator of Sweet Home

From Amazon: From the bestselling creator of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set on the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate occasions—the publicity of a large felony enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a girl from a ship at sea.

From Amazon: From the bestselling creator of The Misplaced Classic, a uncommon and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier’s school yr overseas in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of affection and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon – earlier than the world knew her as Jackie.

From Amazon: On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t horrible. She likes her job, even when it isn’t precisely the one she anticipated. She’s blissful along with her condo, her romantic standing, and her independence, and she or he adores her lifelong greatest good friend. However her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if one thing is lacking. When she wakes up the following morning, she finds herself again in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday…Now armed with a brand new perspective on her personal life and his, some previous occasions tackle new that means. Is there something that she would change if she may?

From Amazon: Within the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the household’s orchard in Northern Michigan. Whereas choosing cherries, they beg their mom to inform them the story of Peter Duke, a well-known actor with whom she shared each a stage and a romance years earlier than at a theater firm referred to as Tom Lake. As Lara remembers the previous, her daughters study their very own lives and relationship with their mom, and are compelled to rethink the world and every part they thought they knew.

From Amazon: The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage woman rising up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an schooling in order that she will be able to discover her “louding voice” and converse up for herself, The Woman with the Louding Voice is a concurrently heartbreaking and triumphant story concerning the energy of preventing on your desires. 

From Amazon: Sam and Sadie—two school associates, typically in love, however by no means lovers—turn into artistic companions in a blinding and intricately imagined world of online game design, the place success brings them fame, pleasure, tragedy, duplicity, and, finally, a form of immortality. It’s a love story, however not one you may have learn earlier than.

From Amazon: When Rachel falls in love along with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a studying at their native bookstore, with the objective that she may seduce him afterwards. However Fred has different needs. So begins a sequence of secrets and techniques and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois spouse. Aching with unrequited love, shot by way of with scrumptious, glowing humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.