Our Favorite Fiction Books of 2023: December 19, 2023

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Yellowface, Tom Lake, Happiness Falls, and more of our favorite fiction of 2023! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you (or a reader you know and love) hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. The holidays are here, and we've got three different levels for gifting to suit every budget. Get all the details at mytbr.co. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.1	This is episode 443 and today we are talking about some of our favorite fiction of 2023.
0:50.8	I'm Liberty Hardy here with Tears of Price and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
0:55.0	Tears of hello. Hello how are you? I'm okay how are you? I'm okay how are you? I am doing
1:02.0	pretty well I cannot believe this is the last all the books
1:05.7	episode of the year and I don't normally do the like the best fiction I think the
1:10.9	last few years I've done best non-fiction so I'm
1:12.7	excited to switch it up because I realize like you know I'm on every
1:17.0	episode but the other co-host don't get to talk about those things sometimes
1:21.0	and so I thought I would switch it up this year and no one seemed to mind so yeah it's well it's always fun to just talk about books but I was like immediately like oh my gosh what are my favorite books of the year what I don't know now I have to make a decision and that was hard but you know all the things that we do in the name of loving books. It's fine.
1:40.0	Yeah, it's totally fine. Let's see, what do we have going on?
1:45.0	It's winter in Maine, almost, basically,
1:48.0	but we don't have any snow yet, but it's only 20 degrees out right now,
1:51.0	so that's not great. I went out to get the mail and I was like a
1:54.8	uh you know I left the house today so I was like oh my goodness so yeah it doesn't feel like if there's no snow on the ground, it should be below 20 because it's just like faking you out.
2:08.0	Like you're like, wait, no, what's going on?
2:12.0	You and I had a complaint session before we started recording about money and cats basically.
2:22.0	Cats costing us so much money. money and cats basically.
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