My favorite reads of 2023 (not all new, all literary fiction except where noted):
Biography of X - #CatherineLacey
Traces of Enayat - #ImanMersal (nonfic)
After Sappho - #SelbyWynnSchwartz
Noopiming - #LeanneBetasamosakeSimpson
This Accident of Being Lost - #LeanneBetasamosakeSimpson
The Wall - #MarlenHaushofer
Bad Cree - #JessicaJohns (horror)
Your Love Is Not Good - #JohannaHedva
Flux by #JinwooChong
The New Animals - #PipAdam
Tomb of Sand - #GeetanjaliShree
Another top book of 2023: The New Animals by #PipAdam. In another life I was interested in the fashion world and was intrigued that Dorothy, a publisher who does no wrong, would pick up this title (originally out in 2017), so I had to read it. Have to say I HATED all the characters at the beginning and was questioning my faith in Dorothy, until, well, the story took a very unexpected turn. Dorothy still does no wrong, and the colour scheme of my top books of the year continues.
Reading The New Animals by #PipAdam, a novel about a New Zealand fashion label, and was stopped by a sentence that says "You can't be an enfant terrible in your forties", because my brain immediately went "but what about Lee McQueen?" But then I looked up how old he was when he died - he was only 40 - and now I'm sad.
