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Ken Thompson Nov 24, 2023

1/x The Best Novels of 2023.
I’ve been looking at a lot of lists of “best books” lately, and realizing that they have something in common. No, not the actual books on them (the lists are surprisingly heterogeneous); what they have in common is that almost none define what they mean by best, what criteria they used, or frequently even who the selectors were. As Best Books lists come out for 2023, the trend continues. I’ll post those lists in this thread, thru year end. @bookstodon

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3/x Here’s the NYT Book Review list of best books 2023. Again, no list of selectors or criteria or reasoning used. (But see next post in this thread for some some of those deets) Some overlap with the WaPo list, but mostly not. No overlap might make sense if we knew the list criteria for both…but we don’t.
#books #reading #bestbooks2023

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/21/books/notable-books.html

100 Notable Books of 2023

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The New York Times