All About Books discussion

This thread is where you can post your favorite book each month in 2023. You can create your post with the template below . At the end of each month when you edit your post , send a post telling us that you have updated it. For anyone interested , it's a good way to share our favorites and expand our TBR lists.

Copy the template below, and each month come back and edit your post with the favorite book you read that month. Then you pick out of those 12 for your favorite book of the year.

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January - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
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January - Breakaway
February - Things We Hide from the Light
March - Old Bones: Tote lügen nie
April - Kindred
May - The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary
June - Orphan X
July - Wildcat
August - Die 1%-Methode – Minimale Veränderung, maximale Wirkung
September - Magic Sparks
October - The Woman in Me
November - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
December - Dragonfly in Amber

Best of the year: Harry Potter and Outlander re-reads

January - The Bookstore Sisters (Technically,only a short story. But, no fabulous reads in January).
February -Marmee
March - The Queen of Dirt Island
April - Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, This Time Tomorrow
May - Hula, No Two Persons
June - Good Night, Irene, The Secret Book of Flora Lea
July -The Air Raid Book Club, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, The Edge of Summer
August -Watch Us Shine, Tom Lake
September -The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Lost Art of Mixing,
October - The Measure, Genesis Begins Again
November - The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre, Under the Magnolias
December - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

Best of the year

January - I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
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Best of the year

January Piergiorgio Pulixi La libreria dei gatti neri and Elizabeth Jane Howard Odd Girl Out ****
Februay Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human and Leonardo Varasano nazione pop ****
March Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Monsieur Ibrahim e i fiori del Corano ****1/2 Sara Durantini Annie Ernaux. Ritratto di una vita ****
April Louise Penny A World of Curiosities ****1/2
May Winston Graham Demelza and Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth ****
June Elizabeth Strout Lucy by the Sea ****1/2
July Winston Graham Warleggan ****
August Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies ****
September R.F. Kuang Babel: An Arcane History ****
October Italo Calvino La giornata d'uno scrutatore ***1/2
November Colum McCann Apeirogon *****
December Adania Shibli Un dettaglio minore and José Saramago La vedova **** "(a part from William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, *****, but Billy is out of all competitions!!!)"


Best of the year Colum McCann Apeirogon *****

January - The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
February - The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel and Point Omega by Don DeLillo
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Best of the year:

January - Tangerine by Christine Mangan / Verity by Colleen Hoover
February - All the Broken Places by John Boyne
March - The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
April - The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson
May - Don’t Tell Teacher by Suzy K. Quinn
June - In the Blink of An Eye by Jo Callaghan
July - Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
August - Solace by Belinda McKeon
September - Exquisite by Sarah Stovell / Wild by Kristin Hannah
October - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
November - The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
December - Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson




Best of the year - All the Broken Places by John Boyne

January - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
February- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
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