2023 Bookreporter Bets On Selections: Books We're Betting You'll Love

Carol Fitzgerald shares commentary about her 44 Bookreporter Bets On selections from 2023. These are books that she is betting Bookreporter readers will love! (* means a video/podcast interview with that author is available.)

Books discussed in this episode:

Carol’s Top Three 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 by Sadeqa Johnson *
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis *
Absolution 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 (written interview on Bookreporter.com)
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