Best Books 2023

The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care- Affirmations, Self-Love and Life Lessons According to the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog by Maybell Eequay

Hotel Kitsch- A Pretty Cool Tour of America's Fantasy Getaways by Margaret Bienert

Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa

Outlive- The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD

Young Forever - The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life by Mark Hyman MD

Shitty Craft Club- A Club for Gluing Beads to Trash, Talking about Our Feelings, and Making Silly Things by Sam Reece

More Is More- Get Loose in the Kitchen- A Cookbook by Molly Baz

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh! by Mo Willems

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

The Christmas Guest- A Novella by Peter Swanson

Build the Life You Want- The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

You Stole My Name- The Curious Case of Animals with Shared Names (Picture Book) by Dennis McGregor

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library- A Novel by Michiko Aoyama

The Iliad- Translated by Emily Wilson by Homer

Cocktails in Color: A Spirited Guide to the Art and Joy of Drinkmaking by Sammi Katz

Hanukkah Upside Down by Elissa Brent Weissman

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

Strong, Sweet and Bitter- Your Guide to All Things Cocktails, Bartending and Booze from Behind the Bar by Cara Devine

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

The Beast You Are - Stories by Paul Tremblay

The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Divine Rivals: A Novel by Rebecca Ross

Chili Crisp- 50+ Recipes to Satisfy Your Spicy, Crunchy, Garlicky Cravings by James Park

Noticing by Kobi Yamada

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly Stone

Your Brain on Art- How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen

My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee

Be Useful- Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Wild Robot Protects (Wild Robot Series #3) by Peter Brown

Emperor of Rome- Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard

Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club) by Ann Napolitano

My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

Entangled Life- The Illustrated Edition- How Fungi Make Our Worlds by Merlin Sheldrake

Big by Vashti Harrison

To Rescue the Constitution- George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment by Bret Baier

The Six- The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush

Opinions- A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay

King - A Life by Jonathan Eig

The Christmas Appeal- A Novella by Janice Hallett

Death Valley by Melissa Broder

I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Varghese

A City on Mars- Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

Remember Love- Words for Tender Times by Cleo Wade

The Mysteries by Bill Watterson

The Legacies by Jessica Goodman

Blood Memory- The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo by Dayton Duncan

Dumb Ideas- A Behind-the-Scenes Expose on Making Pranks and Other Stupid Creative Endeavors (and How You Can Also Too!) by Eric Andre

There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds

The Comfort of Crows- A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

Above Ground by Clint Smith

Teddy and Booker T.- How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality by Brian Kilmeade

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Going Infinite- The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis