40 Best Books from 2023 You Need to Read in 2024

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Our 40 best books of the year list is out! ❤️ Full list below + link to list with reviews and quotes:

LITERARY FICTION
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

MYSTERY & THRILLERS
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary
All The Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
Don't Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders

ROMANCE
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Betting on You by Lynn Painter

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

LGBTQIA
Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza
Family Meal by Bryan Washington
Orphia and Eurydicius by Elyse John

YOUNG ADULT
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

PSYCHOLOGY
Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read by Philippa Perry
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands by Dasha Kiper
On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen

TRANSLATED
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda and Philip Gabriel
No Edges: Swahili Stories by various authors

POLITICS
Five Times Faster by Simon Sharpe
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
When Machines Become Customers by Don Scheibenreif and Mark Raskino
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

SPORTS
Fearless by Louise Minchin

TRAVEL
Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place by Alice Maddicott
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer

FOOD
The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit

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A big hello and thank you for watching! Passionate about literature, psychology, and life I launched Book Therapy as an alternative form of therapy using the power of literature. I train mental health professionals, librarians, teachers as well as readers on using bibliotherapy in their own work through our online Bibliotherapy, Literature and Mental Health course (). We also curate reading lists/personalised book prescriptions for clients based on their individual needs. This is our signature personalised reading service:

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