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From novels to nonfiction to bombshell celebrity memoirs, it was quite the year for good reads.Here are PEOPLE’s picks for the 10 best books of 2023.
From novels to nonfiction to bombshell celebrity memoirs, it was quite the year for good reads.
Here are PEOPLE’s picks for the 10 best books of 2023.
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FSG
New Zealand eco-activists who poach land to grow vegetables collide and collude with the rich and ruthless in this fast-paced, savagely smartliterary thriller. Today’s environmentalism is the focus. but the wickedly funny truths about humanity are timeless.
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As prosperous Dickie Barnes’s car dealership in small-town Ireland falters, his wife and children deal with the fallout — while grappling with old secrets, their isolation from one another, and our warming world.Astute, operatic, downright brilliant.
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Penguin
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SIMON AND SCHUSTER
An enslaved couple’s extraordinary escape from the pre-Civil War South propels them to fame — and into risky careers as antislavery authors and lecturers. A deeply reported historical account with the pacing of athriller.
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Hogarth
Mia’s younger brother Eugene has a genetic disorder that makes him unable to speak — but he’s the only one who knows how their father disappeared. An obsessivemissing-person mysterybuilt on profound philosophical questions.
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Viking
The star delivers the dish, from her Brooklyn youth to fame, love and what she ate along the way (egg rolls! coffee ice cream!). Try the audio version: it’s like a phone call — with songs! — from your best chatty friend.
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Harper
Literary lions may excel at demystifying the human heart — but judging from thisjuicy, revealing lookat the marriages of some imperious greats (including Roald Dahl and Kingsley Amis), it’s best not to get too close.
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Riverhead books
A skeleton unearthed in Pottstown, Pa., in 1972 is the entry point for McBride’scompelling lookat the town’s struggling Black and Jewish immigrant community in the 1920s and ’30s — and the mysteries long buried there.
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Makkai’s delicious prep schoolmurder mysterykeeps you gripped and guessing while raising thoughtful questions about #MeToo, the podcasting boom and our modern obsession with true crime.
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Random house
You needn’t be team Meghan-and-Harry to inhale the wayward prince’s fascinating, well-written (props to coauthor J.R. Moehringer) and profoundly sadmemoirabout the crippling effects of a royal upbringing.
source: people.com
