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Holly Cairns looks back on 2023...

As we end another year, the infosphere is full of lists and stories of the best and the worst people, events, things and phenomena of 2023. Daniel G. Jennings at Medium calls such a ritual “one of the most obnoxious end-of-year traditions…too pretentious a tradition not to mock.” Aware of this characterization and although, according […]

With so many Best of 2023 lists out there, who has time to read them all? Turns out: We do.

Our critics have selected their top fiction for the new year. Get ready to be wowed by the latest books from authors such as Neel Mukherjee, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tom Hindle and Alex Michaelides.

The critics top eight best books of 2023 based on Christmas selections in UK national newspapers and magazines and publications

Newstalk has put together a handy list of the best novels and memoirs that were published this year. 

Did your favourites make the cut?

Year end lists of books read has enshrined itself in our minds and socio-cultural spaces as the intellectual ornament to be flashed to show supremacy. Yet even the best editors cant agree on which books to read and why.

It’s okay to gloat about our artistic accomplishments, fruits of a period of social turmoil