My Favourite Fiction Books of 2023 ☕📚

Hi beautiful people, lovely readers of the Internet. This is my 2023 fiction wrap-up, 8 must-read fiction. Better late than never!--besides, 2024 barely started and people are still filling up their yearly TBR (as if filling up your TBR ever stops). There's an array of books for all readers, although if we'd have to box it all up into a category of fiction, I'd say these are mostly literary fiction. A couple of these center on love, and they are of various lengths. But here's a list anyway 00:00 Intro with a wonderful quote by James Wood 1:23 A short story collection by Amina Cain for lovers of Claire Keegan, spare prose style, and very short succinct, atmospheric stories 4:44 #7 Climate fiction by Lily Brooks-Dalton Set in near-future Florida by the author who wrote the novel that the film starring George Clooney as a scientist in the Arctic was based on. 8:45 A Satire on writers: Mona. An intelligent, witty, bizarre, and wild satire on writers, contemporary fiction, a novel originally written in Spanish by Pola Oloixarac, with a wild, pot-smoking, beautiful female narrator. 11:09 An Italian Novella A recently revived, reprinted, Italian novella by a badass feminist writer set in the 50s (the legendary Natalia Ginzburg) that opens with a reversal of the usual marriage collapse by death -- this time, she shoots the husband. 16:38 A Lesbian Love Affair A queer, lesbian love story in lush, lyrical prose - full of passion and desire and naked-women vibes, by Jeanette Winterson 20:23 A novel-in-stories on Love An exploration of the different shades of love and desire as one man goes through life from childhood to adulthood, by André Aciman. 20:28 A fictional biography of an elusive Artist An intelligent, fictional biography, mystery, and detective story, set in an alternate past in the US - explores the role of art in society, and the elusive nature of the ones we think we know. by Catherine Lacey 30:33 Genre-bending novel on Technology and AI and geniuses A masterpiece of genre-bending literature exploring the real and fictional lives of world-shattering physicists and mathematicians - yes, one of them is a dark horseman of the apocalypse - and a chilling account of AI prowess recounting AlphaGo and DeepMind victory over world Go Champion -- The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut #booktube #bookrecommendations #favouritebooks #mustread