What was your favourite book of 2023?

[BrandyandGinger]

It doesn't have to have been published in 2023, just read by you in the last year.
I think mine was Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan. I also loved The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah and Amy and Lan by Sadie Jones.
Disclaimer: I bought myself Demon Copperhead for Christmas so it's not impossible that I might change my top choice later.

So far it's been strange sally diamond which was recommended on here

No 23 Burlington Square by Jenni Kerr. I read it in one sitting.

So far it's a tie between Demon Copperhead, and Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants by Paul Gould

I have also got a tie between The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (I was very late to the game with that one!).

Lessons in chemistry.

A three-way tie between Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy, Cuddy by Benjamin Myers and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

Demon Copperhead. Outstanding book

Another vote for Demon Copperhead.

Demon Copperhead is coming out a clear winner here. I'm glad I have it to read over Christmas.

My Dark Vanessa and Tender is the Flesh.

I loved Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey Mcsomething (sorry Casey that I can't remember your surname).
I then signed up for a 2 week free trial of Amazon Prime so I could watch the film adaptation of it.
Which I watched twice 🙂

Toss- up between Anne Enright’s The Wren the Wren, Katja Oskamp’s Marzahn Mon Amour, and Annie Ernaux’s Une Simple Passion.

Book: When God was a rabbit by Sarah Winman

Audiobook: Rivers of London (I've listened to the whole series this year - brilliant narrator)

I can’t choose between Cuddy by Benjamin Myers and Word Monkey, Christopher Fowler’s last book covering his cancer diagnosis and death. So, one fiction and one non fiction.

The Marriage Portrait and The Perfect Golden Circle, each in a different way.

Looking glass sound by Catriona Ward. I need someone to talk about it with now!

I really enjoyed Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Demon Copperhead for me.

Also Demon Copperhead but also really enjoyed Yellowface.

The Great Alone Kirstin Hannah
Fairy Tale Stephen King

I enjoyed Yellowface, (which obviously is about a writer stealing a plot from another writer) but curiously enough, after I had read it I came across The Plot which had been published a couple of years earlier than Yellowface, ....and its plot is about a writer stealing a plot from another writer...
How postmodern (is that the right term!?)!
Anyway - I absolutely LOVED The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz... more so than Yellowface actually

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. A bit late to the party on this one but it pips Demon Copperhead to the post for me. Also have Francis Spufford's latest waiting and Christmas presents too, so this could still change.

The giver of stars by JoJo Moyes

In Memoriam by Alice Winn. Loved it.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow (as someone else has posted) and also Lessons in Chemistry.