Our pick of 2023’s best new fiction and non-fiction, from fantasy to comedy, memoir and more.
Especially the ones below, newly published in 2023 and chosen as personal highlights byDen of Geeks writers.
Maybe find a new favourite and recommend us your picks below.
Stewarts life is also genuinely fascinating in its own right.
Thats the challenge that editors Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen faced in creating this fantasticYA anthology.
Abbotts style here is different, too, more experimental: The short, choppy sentences.
The stream-of-consciousness associations heightened by pregnancy symptoms.
A paternal father-in-law whose attention turns prurient.
His stern deputy in repressed housekeeper Mrs. Brandt.
A useless new husband who defers to his father.
An isolated cabin with no escape route.
Sudden, intrusive assumptions about abortion and what kind of woman.
Besides anything else, its inefficient.
Blunt, funny and deserves to put Brady on the path to world domination.
Instead, theyre rescued by the crew ofLa Ana,a rival pirate ship, that takes them in.
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Yellowface by R.F.
And a truer representation of life in 2023 is hard to come by.
Like contemporaries including Carmen Maria Machado and Mariana Enriquez, Links short stories are never straight retellings.
with his latest, once again set inGrady Hendrixs own stomping ground of Charleston.
Clark (Hachette Book Group)
The sequel to C.L.
InThe Unbroken, Luca was intruding upon Qazali land.
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See Also
Impossible Creaturesby Katherine Rundell (Bloomsbury).
An essential, entertaining read for UK politics fans that goes from Thatcher to Partygate and takes no prisoners.
In Memoriamby Alice Winn (Viking).
A heart-rending love story set on the battlefields of WWI, and a hugely impressive debut novel.
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafiby Shannon Chakraborty (HarperCollins).
The first in a new magic and mayhem trilogy by the author ofThe City of Brass.
The Reformatoryby Tananarive Due (Simon & Schuster).
A ghostly historical tale of injustice and supernatural powers set in Jim Crow Florida, 1950.
The Ice Childrenby M.G.
Leonard, illustrated by Penny Neville-Lee (Macmillan Childrens Books).
