NY Times posts their Top 10 Books of 2023

Things can get heated. We spar, we persuade and (above all) we agonize until the very end, when we vote and arrive at 10 books — five fiction and five nonfiction.

Nov 28, 2023

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The book cover of “The Bee Sting,” by Paul Murray, features the title and author’s name on a blank cream-colored background. The only image on the cover is an illustration of a small bee whose tail spells “a novel.”

Murray makes his triumphant return with “The Bee Sting,” a tragicomic tale about an Irish family grappling with crises. The Barneses — Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ — are a wealthy Irish clan whose fortunes begin to plummet after the 2008 financial crash. But in addition to this shared hardship, all four are dealing with demons of their own: the re…

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NY Times posts their Top 10 Books of 2023

Things can get heated. We spar, we persuade and (above all) we agonize until the very end, when we vote and arrive at 10 books — five fiction and five nonfiction.

Fiction

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