Carol Fitzgerald shares commentary about her 44 Bookreporter Bets On selections from 2023. These are books that she is betting Bookreporter readers will love! Podcast interviews are available for the asterisked authors.

Carol's Three Top Titles of 2023

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See * Homecoming by Kate Morton * The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger *

Fiction Go As a River by Shelley Read * Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok * Yellowface by R.F. Kuang The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar * The Better Half by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans * Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan Patterson and Susan DiLallo, with James Patterson * The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews Historical Fiction Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline * The House of Lincoln by Nancy Horan * The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland * The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict The House of Eve for Sadeqa Johnson * The Spectacular by Fiona Davis * Absolution by by Alice McDermott

Mysteries

The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel by Nita Prose * Evergreen: A Japantown Mystery by Naomi Hirahara * Veil of Doubt by Sharon Virts * Happiness Falls by Angie Kim * Thrillers

Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena * The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay * All That is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay * The Whispers by Ashley Audrain * The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 by T.J. Newman Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange * Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen * Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent * The Block Party by Jamie Day (text only on Bookreporter) Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur * Her, Too by Bonnie Kistler * Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce * The Manor House by Gilly Macmillan * The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen * Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll * Exiles by Jane Harper * The House Guest by Hank Phillippi Ryan * The Other Mothers by Katherine Faulkner

Memoir Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land

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