Best Books of 2023: Poetry
Here are the titles that our team of reviewers judged the “Best Books of Poetry” of 2023.
James M. Fisher
Best Books of 2023: Young Readers
Nine titles that our team of reviewers judged the “Best Short Fiction” of 2023.
Best Books of 2023: Short Fiction
Nine titles that our team of reviewers judged the “Best Short Fiction” of 2023.
Gone Viking III: The Holy Grail by Bill Arnott
Join bestselling author Bill Arnott on this extraordinary adventure, trekking the ancient world, unearthing Viking secrets and more to reveal history’s most elusive treasure, the holy grail!
Excerpt: The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief
An exclusive excerpt from Steven Malloy’s “The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief”.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #18
Featuring Sophia Devi, James O. Weeks, Carmela Circelli, Elana Wolff, and Brian Van Norman.
Excerpt: Grantrepreneurs by Jake Swan
With scalpel-sharp wit, hilarious schemes and generous injections of heart, Jake Swan has written a page-turning, laugh-out-loud, idol-skewering misadventure.
Excerpt: The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, The Leica Camera Factory and Nazi Resistance by Sasha Colby
Excerpt: A granddaughter explores the story of her Ukrainian grandmother’s survival of Hitler’s forced labor camps
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #17
Featuring L. P. Suzanne Atkinson, Jake Swan, Pan Bouyoucas, Lynn Tait, Colleen Brown and Patti Grayson.
EXCERPT: The Maze in Your Mind Has a Way Out by Amy Cottreau-Moore
After experiencing a traumatic childbirth, Amy suffered from acute postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder and postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder for most of her first child’s early life.
Excerpt: If you lie down in a field, she will find you there by Colleen Brown
Colleen Brown is known primarily as a sculptor. If you lie down in a field, she will find you there, is her first book.
Excerpt: The Brickworks by Lucy E. M. Black
Told in beautifully crafted prose, it is Black’s incomparable voice–her uncanny humour and an astonishing ear for dialogue–that renders The Brickworks both remarkable and unforgettable.
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #16
Featuring Steven Mayoff, Jerrod Edson, Cait Gordon, and Melia McClure
Excerpt: 18 Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages, edited by Nora Gold
This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish fiction in 25 years: a collection of 18 splendid stories, each translated into English from a different language.