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December 16, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Nonfiction!

December 16, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Nonfiction!

The best nonfiction books of 2023!

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December 16, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Nonfiction, The best nonfiction 2023, Zero at the Bone, Christian Wiman, Invitation to a Banquet, Fuchisia Dunlop, Trust the Plan, Will Sommer, The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner, Losing Music, John Cotter, Writing Black Beauty, Celia Brayfield, The Apple II Age, Laine Nooneym, If I Betray These Words, Wendy Dean, Extremely Online, Taylor Lorenz, Fancy Bear Goes Fishing, Scott Shapiro, Steve Donoghue
December 15, 2023

The Worst Books of 2023: Nonfiction!

December 15, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Worst Books of 2023: Nonfiction!

The worst nonfiction of 2023!

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December 15, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Worst Books of 2023: Nonfiction, worst nonfiction 2023, Spare, Prince Harry, The Peacemaker, Nixon, Ben Stein, Emotional Labor, Rose Hackman, Crime Inc, Vince Everett Ellison, Rise of the Fourth Reich, Steve Deace, Daniel Horowitz, The Courage to be Feee, The Courage to be Free, Ron DeSantis, In Defense of the Second Amendment, Larry Correia, Duck Walk, Margie Crisp, The Shotgun Conservationist, Brant MacDuff, Never Give an Inch, Mike Pompeo, The Democrat Party Hates America, Mark Levin, Steve Donoghue
December 14, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Fiction!

December 14, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Fiction!

The best novels of 2023!

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December 14, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Fiction, Best Fiction of 2023, fiction, contemporary fiction, The Bee Sting, Paul Murray, Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane, Mobility, Lydia Kiesling, Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue, Western Alliances, Wilton Barnhardt, Terrace Story, Hilary Leichter, Tom Lake, Ann Patchettm, Wellness, Nathan Hill, The Vulnerabls, The Vulnerables, Sigrid Nunez, The Dissident, Paul Goldberg, Steve Donoghue
December 13, 2023

The Worst Books of 2023: Fiction!

December 13, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Worst Books of 2023: Fiction!

The worst fiction of 2023!

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December 13, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Worst Books of 2023: Fiction, Worst Fiction 2023, I'm Unvaccinated and That's OK, Shannon Kroner, Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward, Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano, Nana Kwama Adjei-Brenyah, Yellowface, RF Kuang, Death Valley, Melissa Broder, Digging Stars, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, I Hear You're Rich, Diane Williams, The Thick and the Lean, Chana Porter, I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai, Steve Donoghue
December 12, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Biography!

December 12, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Biography!

The best biographies of 2023!

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December 12, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Biography, best biography of 2023, biography, Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, Judith Tick, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Karen Sullivan, Walderlust, Peter Freuchen, Reid Mitenbuler, August Wilson, Patti Hartigan, Fierce Ambition, Maggin Higgins, Jennet Conant, Althea Gibson, Sally Jacobs, King, Martin Luther King, Jonathan Eig, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, David Waldstreicher, President Garfield, GW Goodyear, The Wounded World, WEB DuBois, Chad Williams, Steve Donoghue
December 11, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: History!

December 11, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: History!

The best history books of 2023!

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December 11, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: History, Best books of 2023: History, best history 2023, Soviet Century, Karl Schlogel, The Manuscripts Club, Christopher De Hamel, Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, Bismarck's War, Rachel Chrastil, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America, Jeremy Jennings, An Army Afire, Beth Bailey, The World, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Iron and Blood, Peter Wilson, No Right to an Honest Living, Jacqueline Jones, In the Garden of the Righteous, Richard Hurowitz, Steve Donoghue
December 10, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Science!

December 10, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Science!

The best popular science books of 2023!

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December 10, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Science, best science of 2023, The Science of Reading, Adrian Johns, The Possibility of Life, Jaime Green, How We Age, Colleen Murphy, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, George Musser, At Work in the Ruins, Douglas Hine, The Parrot and the Igloo, David Lipsky, Homo Sapiens Rediscovered, Paul Pettit, From One Cell, Ben Stanger, Under Alien Skies, Philip Plait, Once Upon a Prime, Sarah Hart, Steve Donoghue
December 09, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Nature!

December 09, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Nature!

The best nature books of 2023!

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December 09, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Nature, Best books of 2023, best nature of 2023, Paco Calvo, Planta Sapiens, The Lives of Beetles, Arthur Evans, Of Time and Turtles, Sy Montgomery, Kings of Their Own World, Karen Pinchin, What an Owl Knows, Jennifer Ackerman, Thunder without Rain, Thomas McIntyre, The Killer Whale Journals, Hanne Strager, Alfie & Me, Carl Safina, Justice for Animals, Martha Nussbaum, Koala, Danielle Clode, Steve Donoghue
December 08, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Historical Fiction!

December 08, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Historical Fiction!

The best historical fiction of 2023!

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December 08, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Historical Fiction, historical fiction, best historical fiction 2023, Glutton, AK Blakemore, Wolves of Winter, Dan Jones, Sally Brady's Italian Adventure, Christina Lynch, The Temple of Fortuna, Elodie Harper, Sparrow, James Hynes, The Princess, Wendy Holden, The World and All It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon, The Auburn Conference, Tom Piazza, Flags on the Bayou, James Lee Burke, The Midnight News, Jo Baker, Steve Donoghue
December 07, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Science Fiction and Fantasy!

December 07, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Science Fiction and Fantasy!

The best science fiction and fantasy of 2023!

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December 07, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: SFF, science fiction, fantasy, Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise, Titanium Noir, Nick Harkaway, Cassiel's Servant, Jacqueline Carey, The Archive Undying, Emma Mieko Candon, Hopeland, Ian McDonald, The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz, Observer, Robert Lanza, Nancy Kress, Cold People, Tom Rob Smith, A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon, Children of Memory, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Steve Donoghue
December 06, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Romance!

December 06, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Romance!

The best romance novels of 2023!

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December 06, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Romance, Best Romance 2023, romance, Yours Trul, Yours Truly, Yours Truly the Duke, Amelia Grey, Forgery, Forgery Love and Other Lies, Charlie Lane, Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton, A Wager Too Wicked, Alyssa Clarke, Just One Tease, Carly Phillips, The Duke's Secret Wallflower, Eva Devon, Never Seduce a Duke, Vivienne Lorrett, Cowboy Wild, Maisey Yates, The Counterfeit Scoundrel, Lorraine Heath, The Duke Gets Even, Joannna Shupe, Steve Donoghue
December 05, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Mystery!

December 05, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Mystery!

The best in mystery for 2023!

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December 05, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Mitford Secret, Jessica Fellowes, The Best Books of 2023: Mysteries, Best Mystery 2023, mystery, mystery fiction, So Shall You Reap, Donna Leon, Murder Under a Red Moon, Harini Nagendra, City Under One Roof, Iris Yamashitam, Code of the Hills, Chris Offutt, Playing It Safe, Ashley Weaver, The Mistress of Bhatia House, Sujata Massey, The Lady from Burma, Alison Montclair, Not the Ones Dead, Dana Stabenow, The Last Songbird, Daniel Weizmann, Steve Donoghue
December 04, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Thrillers!

December 04, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Thrillers!

The best thrillers of 2023!

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December 04, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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The Best Books of 2023: Thrillers, thrillers, best books of 2023, best thrillers, Exiles, Jane Harper, Code 6, James Grippando, Burner, Mark Greaney, Going Zero, Anthony McCarten, Red River Seven, AJ Ryan, All the Dangerous Things, Stacy Wilingham, You Will Never Be Found, Tove Alsterdal, Sleepless City, Reed Farrell Coleman, Forgotten War, Don Bentley, Sea Castle, Andrew Mayne, Steve Donoghue
December 03, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Debut Fiction!

December 03, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Debut Fiction!

The best debut novels of 2023!

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December 03, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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Best Books of 2023: Debut Fiction, debut fiction, Ghost Season, Fatin Abbas, Swim Home to the Vanished, Brendan Shay Basham, The Road to Dalton, Shannon Bowring, The Weight, Jeff Boyd, The All-American, Joe Milan, Western Lane, Chetna Maroo, Close to Home, Michael Magee, The God of Endings, Jacqueline Holland, Disturbance, Jenna Clarke, In Memoriam, Alice Winn, Steve Donoghue
December 02, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Literature in Translation!

December 02, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Literature in Translation!

The best translated works of 2023!

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December 02, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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best books of 2023: Literature in Translation, translated literature, Khaled Khalifa, No One Prayed Over Their Graves, Leri Price, Oblivion and Other Stories, Gopinath Mohanty, Sudeshna Mohanty, Sudhansu Mohanty, Togani, Ji-Yong Gong, Bruce Fulton, Ju Chan Fulton, The Brothers Karamazo, Michael Katz, The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, Wang Hui, Michael Gibbs Hill, Theoderic the Great, Theoderic, Hans-Ulrich Weimer, John Noel DIllon, Three Treatises, Martin Luther, Timothy Wengert, Erik Herrmann, James Estes, Paul Robinson, Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell, Daodejing, Tao Te Ching, Laozi, Lau Tzu, Brook Ziporyn, The Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse, Kurt Beals, Steve Donoghue
December 01, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Reprints!

December 01, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Reprints!

The best reprinted volumes of 2023!

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December 01, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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Best Books of 2023: Reprints, Best Reprints 2023, Divine Days, Leon Forrest, Right By My Side, David Hayes, Theodore Savage, Cicely Hamilton, Nature's Temples: A Natural History of Old-Growth Forest, Joan Maoof, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Mo Willems, Joanna Russ, Library of America, Legends of the Dark Knight, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, The Life of Birds, David Attenborough, The Big Book of Cyberpunk, Jared Shurin, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, Steve Donoghue
November 23, 2023

American Vikings by Martyn Whittock

November 23, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
American Vikings by Martyn Whittock

A new book looks at Viking echoes in American history and culture.

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November 23, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
History
American Vikings, Norse sagas, Vikings, vikings, Martyn Whittock, American history, QAnon, Steve Donoghue
November 12, 2023

The Handover by David Runciman

November 12, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Handover by David Runciman

A professor muses on the promise and peril of outsourcing autonomy to AI.

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November 12, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & Economics
The Handover, David Runciman, nonfiction, AI, Steve Donoghue, 2023
November 08, 2023

Battle for the Island Kingdom by Don Hollway

November 08, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Battle for the Island Kingdom by Don Hollway

A raucous new history of England in the run-up to the Norman Conquest.

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November 08, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
History
Battle for the Island Kingdom, Don Hollway, medieval history, William the Conqueror, Vikings, Steve Donoghue, 2023
October 30, 2023

Dinosaur Behavior by Michael Benton

October 30, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
Dinosaur Behavior by Michael Benton

A colorful exploration of dinosaur life based on the latest research.

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October 30, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Science/Technology
Dinosaur Behavior, Michael Benton, dinosaurs, science, Bob Nicholls, Steve Donoghue, 2023
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