For this final episode of 2023, we finish our annual two episode best of the year extravaganza! Here we count down our top five favorite reads of 2023—and again we are joined by a cast of listeners who share some of their top books and best reading experiences of the year! Happy New Year! We will see you in 2024!
Shownotes
Roman Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz
Disruptions, by Steven Milhauser
The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman
Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
Blinding, by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
After the Funeral, by Tessa Hadley
The Dry Heart, by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Frances Frenaye
Short stories of Djuna Barnes
Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes
Collected Works, by Lydia Sandgren, translated by Agnes Broomé
Forbidden Notebooks, by Alba de Céspedes, translated by Ann Goldstein
The House on the Hill, by Cesare Pavese, translated by Tim Parks
Conversations in Sicily, by Elio Vittorini, translated by Alane Salierno Mason
Nonfiction, by Julie Myerson
Wound, by Oksana Vasyakina, translated by Elina Alter
The Most Secret Memory of Men, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated by Laura Vergnaud
Bound to Violence, by Yamboi Oulologuem
My Rivers, by Faruk Šehić, translated by S.D. Curtis
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
The Story of a Life, by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Doug Smith
The Light Room, by Kate Zambreno
Drifts, by Kate Zambreno
A Ghost in the Throat, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff
The Long Form, by Kate Briggs
Territory of Light, by Yuki Tsushima, translate by Geraldine Harcourt
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark
Indeterminate Inflorescence, by Lee Seong-bok, translated by Anton Hur
If I Had Not Seen Their Sleeping Faces: fragments on death After Anna de Noailles, by Christina Tudor-Sideri
In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
The Day The Call Came, by Thomas Hinde
The Peasants, by Władysław Reymont, translated by Anna Zaranko
Basic Black with Pearls, by Helen Weinzweig
The Young Bride, by Alessandro Baricco, translated by Ann Goldstein
Whale, by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim
Not Even the Dead, by Juan Gomez Barecna, translated by Katie Whittemore
Losing Music, by John Cotter
Denmark: Variations, by James Tadd Adcox
Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike
Blind Rider, by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Peter Bush
Exiled from Almost Everywhere, by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Peter Bush
The Garden of Secrets, by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Peter Bush
The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy
When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West
The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope
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