EP57: Our favorites from 2023!

Live from the Book Shop: John Updike's Ghost

Christmas is over and we've got some time to relax (especially since no one gave Hannah any books for Christmas, though she bought herself "Mistletoe Malice," not "Mistletoe Mayhem," as she says on the pod, as a present to herself). That means, we've got our lists ready — 12 books each, and maybe some more — of favorite books of the past year! We start with literary novels (we're not going to list them all here in the description; see the pod home page for the full list) and then move into sort-of genre books, which can be literary (is "Chain Gang All-Stars" dystopian? Um, yes). That leads to some books that are funny and literary and satisfying, which are fun, with smaller problems. Then we finish up with historical fiction (which is probably literary, as well, to be honest) and YA (which is probably the most literary of the YA we read), before finishing up with some non-fiction, since we felt like we had to include some. In all, we talk about more than 30 books!