December 2023 - Year-End Book Group Discussion

What was the best book you read this year?

Our Favorite Books in 2023

Patrons and staff met in the Community Room on Wednesday, Dec. 20, to share favorite reads from 2023. Here are the titles we discussed...

 Fiction:

Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury

All the Light We Cannot See, Doerr

The Running Grave, Galbraith

The Weaver and the Witch Queen, Gornichec

The Invisible Hour, Hoffman

Verity, Hoover

News of the World, Jiles

Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver

In the Lives of Puppets, Klune

The River We Remember, Krueger

North Woods, Mason

Inspector Gamache series (2 votes), Penny

Killers of a Certain Age (2 votes), Raybourn

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, See

Sadie, Summers

The Goldfinch, Tartt

Lincoln Highway, Towles

Project Hail Mary (2 votes), Weir 

 

Nonfiction

The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, Egan

 The Wager: A ­Tale of ­Ship­wreck­, ­Mutiny and ­Mur­der, Grann

Underland: A Deep Time Journey, Macfarlane

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Macfarlane

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries, Melville

The Deepest Map, Tretheway

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Join us in the Community Room Wednesday, December 20, 1-2pm
 

Come talk about the books you read and loved in 2023
and hear about books you’ll want to read in 2024!

 Check out some of these "Best of 2023" lists from around the web:

 
NPR
 
Goodreads:  
 
The New Yorker: 
 
Wall Street Journal
 
 The New York Times
 
Time Magazine