What did you read this year?
Chris’s
average rating for
2023
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
I loved this book: haunting, funny, astute (SO damn astute). It has some of the wildest and most wrenching characters I met between hard covers the last year. As a novelist, I was awed; as a reader, I was grateful. And Blandine? Blandine? We all need Blandine tee shirts!
It seems 2023 was the year when all those podcasts about murders became the subjects themselves of terrific books and TV series: Rebecca Makkai's I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS for you and the streaming series, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and BASED ON A TRUE STORY immediately come to mind. Add to that list Margot Harrison's riveting, smart, and insightful new novel, ONLY SHE CAME BACK. A teenage girl in Vermont, who's an aspiring podcaster, sees an oppor
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