#231: Our Favorite Reads of 2023

Hurin, Starkast, Cesky and Stormrunner discuss their best books of 2023.

Hurin:

1. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
2. Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe
3. Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jiminez
4. Return to Edan - Philip Chase
5. The Dispossesed - Ursula K. Le Guin
6. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton
7. Forge of the High Mage - Ian C. Esselmont
8. A Psalm for The Wild Built - Becky Chambers
9. The Hexologists - Josiah Bancroft
10. The Eye of Argon - Jim Theiss

Stormrunner:

1. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin
2. The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
3. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
4. The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
5. The First Sister by Linden Lewis
6. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
7. The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
8. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
9. Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler
10. Startide Rising by David Brin

Starkast:

1) The Summer Hikaru Died

2) The Bone Key - Sarah Monette 3) Frieren: Beyond Journeys End 4) All These Sunken Souls - Circe Moskowitz 5) The Book of Witches - Johnathan Strahan 6)Boys, Beast & Men - Sam J. Miller 7) Even Though I knew the End - C.L.Polk 8) The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz 9) The Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon 10) The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill

Cesky:

1.     Throne in the Dark by A.K. Caggiano

2.     Jhereg by Steven Brust

3.     Before we Go Live by Steven Flavell

4.     The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

5.     Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

6.     The Necromancer’s House by Christopher Buhlman

7.     The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells by John Bierce

8.     The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft

9.     The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

10.  The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis