Book Club Favorites of 2023!

The fiction book club I lead at One More Page Books kicks off the new year by talking about our favorite reads of the previous year.  We call it a book club potluck: instead of food we bring book recommendations! This aren’t book club picks, but books we’ve read outside of book club that we’ve really enjoyed. Additionally, they don’t have to have been published recently, simply books we’ve read in the last year. This is my favorite meeting of the year; we always come up with quite the eclectic list of books!

Here are our favorite reads of 2023, in no particular order! It’s quite a long list! Click on the title to learn more, and to order your own copy!

• Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
• We Are the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (the audio is phenomenal)
• The Measure by Nikki Erlick
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
• The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger, M.D., Marc Schulz, Ph.D
• All Adults Here by Emma Straub
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife by Ken Jennings 
• Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg
• The Collective Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Stay True by Hua Hsu
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
• The Golden Enclave by Naomi Novik
• Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O’Hara

Since this is already a pretty long list, you can check out my Instagram to view my favorites!

Did you add any titles to your TBR!?  I know I did!