Books of the Year 2023

Top Ten Books of This Year

Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal (France)
The Romantic by William Boyd

Book of the Year

Quinn by Em Strang

Shy by Max Porter

Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia (Brazil) translated by Zoë Perry

Nothing Left To Fear From Hell by Alan Warner

The Strangers by Jon Bilbao (Spain) translated by Katie Whittemore

Grimmish by Michael Winkler

The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet

At The Edge of The Woods by Kathryn Bromwich

Non-Fiction Books of the Year

The Flow by Amy Jane Beer

High by Erika Fatland (Sweden) translated by Karl Dickson

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Roumeli and Mani

Older Stuff

High Priest of California by Charles Willeford

Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski

Invitation to Violence by Lionel White

Blood by Hanns Heinz Ewers (Germany) translated by Phil Garris

Secret Europe by John Howard and Mark Valentine

The Werewolf of Paris by Guy

Reviews of them all over at my GoodReads page https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/313206?ref=nav_profile_l

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Quote of the Week

Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’


Lewis Carroll