Kramers' Favorite Reads of 2023!
"We are living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen."--Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
We have quite the collection of readers at Kramers! We voted on the Kramers Choice Awards (see the past blog here), but we also wanted to highlight each individual's favorite reads of 2023--you'll see some really popular ones mixed in as well as some 2023 new releases and classics (in no particular order!)
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All--But There Is a Solution by Rikki Schlott and Greg Lukianoff
Julian by Gore Vidal
Moscow X by David McCloskey
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati
The Mahabharate by Anonymous
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders
The Stranger by Albert Camus
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross