Books I Read and Loved in 2023

From Amazon: A comedy writer thinks she’s given up on love, until a dreamy pop star changes the script based on all her assumptions.

From Amazon: An incisive and deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels a woman’s final semester at an elite New England college toward controversy and chaos—and toward an ill-advised affair with a married professor.

From Amazon: “Part boarding school drama, part forensic crime novel, I Have Some Questions for You is a true literary mystery, haunting and hard to put down.” —Jennifer Egan, author of The Candy House

From Amazon: From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of ​​Tranquility, a thrilling novel set at the brilliant intersection of two seemingly disparate events: the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a boat at sea .

From Amazon: From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier’s college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming of age of an icon American, the world previously knew her as Jackie.

From Amazon: On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her work, even though it’s not exactly what she expected. She is happy with her apartment, her romantic situation and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is sick and she feels like something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday… Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some events from the past take on new meaning. Is there anything you would change if you could?

From Amazon: In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family garden in northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg her mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared the stage and romance years before in a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara reminisces about the past, her daughters examine their own lives and their relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

From Amazon: The unforgettable and inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so she can find her “strong voice” and speak for herself. The Girl with the Loud Voice is both a heartbreaking and triumphant story about the power of fighting for your dreams.

From Amazon: Sam and Sadie, two college friends, often in love, but never lovers, become creative partners in a dazzling, intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity. and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It’s a love story, but not one you’ve read before.

From Amazon: When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at the local bookstore, with the goal of seducing him afterwards. But Fred has other wishes. Thus begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the destinies of James, Rachel, Fred and Fred’s glamorous and well-connected bourgeois wife. Pained by unrequited love, filled with delightful, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.