Hello, this is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 647th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I hope you enjoy this week's episode, My Top Books of 2023. For a few years now I've been lamenting that I wasn't reading at the same pace I was

accustomed to in the past. This year I'm happy to say I'm back.

It was a good reading year, y'all.

I enjoyed myself thoroughly and encountered so many new authors and new ideas. So today's episode features some of my favorite books

of 2023 among which are some of my new all-time favorite books both fiction and not.

So I hope you'll find something new to read here.

And I hope you'll stop by the site at helping writers become authors.com

and leave me your suggestions for next year.

So first of all, we'll start off with a few writing books.

Starting with The Anatomy of Genre by John Trube. Thank God I live in a world with John Truby. 13 years ago I read

his book Anatomy of Story and immediately knew I was connecting with a mind that spoke a language I so deeply wanted to speak.

Thirteen years later, he's touched me with another book, this time The Anatomy of Genre, that once again speaks to me exactly where I'm at

as a writer and a person, both reflecting and broadening my perspectives of the craft. This is not a simple glossary of genres with the standard

how-to-beats. This is a revolutionary examination of story as the archetype of all life. It will teach you how to write and

transcend your genres, but more than that it will take you on a profound journey

through history, sociology, and philosophy.

Truly masterful.

And the other writing book I recommend this year is called

Writing Your Life by Dina Metzger.

And this is one of those books I think I shall need to read more than once in order to tap every drop of goodness.

Although it's more focused on memoir type prompts rather than fiction, but there's some of that too.

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