A new novel from Zadie Smith , a bible for Noughties pop fans, a feminist perspective on George Orwell and a doorstopper biography on Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – it’s been a very good year of reading.
Here’s our pick of the best books of 2023...
25. Weirdo by Sara Pascoe
1 /9The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray Catherine Taylor’s evocative, moving memoir is set mainly in the 1970s and 1980s in Sheffield
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray Henry Winkler gives a heart-warming and self-deprecating account of his life in ‘Being Henry: The Fonz… and Beyond’
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray Katherine Heiny’s second short stort collection is funny, but sometimes unexpectedly sad
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray ‘The Fraud’ is Zadie Smith’s first foray into historical fiction set around the ‘Tichborne Claimant’ battle, a legal cause célèbre in the 1870s
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray ‘Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World’ is a mesmerising collection of 26 essays by the late National Book Award winner Barry Lopez
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray Secrets are withheld in a story that offers small plot twists and reveals that pack the power of a defibrillator shock in Ann Patchett’s dazzling novel
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray Poet Amy Key uses Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ album to riff and reflect on a life lived largely without romantic love in ‘Arrangements in Blue’
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray It took biographer Roger Lewis more than a decade to write ‘Erotic Vagrancy’ about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s volatile relatiosnship
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The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray It’s been a great year for reading... here are our tops picks of 2023
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