Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2023
Feature and Contest
Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2023
Over the last two months, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group and your favorite book that you read outside your group in 2023.
The results are in! Below are the top 10 titles in each category.
A special congratulations to our contest winner, Loralee K. from Castle Rock, CO, who won six fabulous book group titles releasing in the first quarter of this year: FINDING MARGARET FULLER by Allison Pataki, FIRST LIE WINS by Ashley Elston, SLOW NOODLES: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon with Kim Green, THE STORM WE MADE by Vanessa Chan, WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA? by Dervla McTiernan, and THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah.
Top 10 Books Read with Your Group:
- LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus
- REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by Shelby Van Pelt
- DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver
- HORSE by Geraldine Brooks
- THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese
- HELLO, BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano
- LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN by Lisa See
- WEST WITH GIRAFFES by Lynda Rutledge
- THE MEASURE by Nikki Erlick
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BLACK CAKE by Charmaine Wilkerson
Top 10 Books Read Outside Your Group:
- THE RIVER WE REMEMBER by William Kent Krueger
- THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese
- REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by Shelby Van Pelt
- LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus
- DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver
- HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano
- TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett
- HORSE by Geraldine Brooks
- GO AS A RIVER by Shelley Read
- MAD HONEY by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
