Ep. 298 The Best Books of 2023 with MJ Franklin and Adam Vitcavage

The Stacks

Traci Thomas

Literature, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

New York Times Book Review editor MJ Franklin and Debutiful's Adam Vitcavage join The Stacks for our annual best books of the year episode. We reveal our personal picks for the ten best books of 2023, and predict trends we anticipate for 2024. Plus, we discuss all the books we're most looking forward to reading in the new year.

The Stacks Book Club selection for December is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. We will discuss the book on December 27th with Farah Karim-Cooper.

You can find everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' website:

https://thestackspodcast.com/2023/12/20/ep-298-best-books-of-2023

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0:00.0	Welcome to the stats, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas and it is time
0:14.2	for everyone's favorite episode of the year. The 10 Best Books of 2023 list. I brought
0:21.0	in two guests this year to help me put this list together.
0:24.0	Our first guest is Adam Vit cabbage.
0:26.0	He is the creator and host of the debut
0:28.0	podcast, a literary podcast that focuses on debut authors and their first books.
0:34.7	I'm also joined by M.J. Franklin,
0:36.8	he is an editor at the New York Times book review.
0:40.0	Very fancy stuff.
0:41.6	What you need to know about both M.J. and Adam is that they are
0:44.7	serious professional readers and between the three of us we have read hundreds of
0:48.7	books this year to help us put together our very own top 10. We also talk about what we saw in the year of books in
0:55.4	2023, our predictions for next year, and we share a handful of titles that we're the
1:00.3	most excited about for 2024.
1:02.7	Get your pen and paper ready.
1:04.1	The book recommendations will be flying.
1:06.2	Or you can just click the link in the show notes
1:08.6	to find every single book we talk about on today's episode.
1:11.9	Don't forget our book club discussion
1:13.5	will happen next week on Wednesday, December 27th.
1:17.1	We will be talking about William Shakespeare's
1:19.2	Romeo and Juliet with Farah Karim Cooper.
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