Best Books of 2023
Special Paxlovid edition
Favorite books I read but didn’t cover, listed roughly by personal taste and judgment about relevance.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee
Poverty: By America, by Matthew Desmond
The Long Reckoning, George Black
We Don’t Know Ourselves, Fintan O’Toole
Baseless, by Nicholson Baker
On Freedom, Maggie Nelson
Constructing a Nervous System, Margo Jefferson
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live, Paul Kix
Shine Bright, Danyel Smith
Noone Is Talking about This, Patricia Lockwood
People Love Dead Jews, Dara Horn
Aftermath, Harald Jähner
Irrationality, Justin Smith-Ruiu
Jena Friedman, Not Funny
The Maniac, Benjamín Labatut
Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley
The Professor and Other Writings, Terry Castle
The Only Language They Understand, Nathan Thrall
The Last Politician, Franklin Foer
Arsenals of Folly, Richard Rhodes
Picasso’s War, Hugh Eakin
South to America, Imani Perry
The Wages of Destruction, Adam Tooze
King, Jonathan Eig
Traveling Sprinkler, Nicholas Baker
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