The bestselling books of 2023 are a selection of works worth reading for all reading enthusiasts. Some titles are already out, others are about to see the light of day. Short descriptions will help you understand what these books are about and who the author is. Reading is still one of the most popular hobbies. The Top Books of 2023 will appeal to anyone interested in literature.
Predictions
When listing the bestsellers of 2023, let’s start with Celeste Ing’s Our Missing Hearts. The same list could include:
- “All the way to Heaven”, by Hania Yanagihara.
- “The Colony”, by Audrey Magee.
- “The Greatest Good”, by Olivia Meining.
- “What Cassandra Saw”, by Gwen. E. Kirby.
- “Prozac Nation”, by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
- “Wholeheartedly”, Camille Deangelis.
- “Feminist City”, Leslie Kern.
The works on this list are novels and short story collections. In almost every one, readers will find a tangled plot story, as well as references to the past closely intertwined with the present.
Parsing
Celeste Ing’s Our Missing Hearts is a good place to start. The writer is excellent at family dramas and stories where there is a need for subtle, subtle dynamics in the development of an addictive relationship. Hidden within the book is a story of forced orphanhood, of great longing for one’s mother. Her point is that a child’s love can conquer evil. The highlight of this novel lies in its fantastical coloring.
Hanya Yanagihara’s “All the way to Heaven” is a three-part work about the illusory nature of the world around us. What appears to be immutable is actually not. The characters live in three different versions of reality. They share one house, which serves as a place of confinement on the one hand, and a refuge on the other. This is a work about an alternate American story that grows into the reality of the 1990s and then into a dystopian future. The plot description seems a bit confusing, so to get into it – read the book “All the way to Heaven.”
Anyone who is into poetically composed novels should check out Audrey Magee’s “The Colony.” It’s a story about the appropriation of other people’s belongings and the internecine struggles that arise between members of different nations. In this case it is about an artist from Great Britain and a linguist from France. They stay on a small island located in Ireland to see which of them has a good life here. In the finale only one remains.
Olivia Manning’s The Greater Good also deserves attention. The main characters are a married couple in which there is no understanding. The plot at first glance seems simple and banal, but everything is much more complicated. In reality, it is a story about unloved children and what the lack of love in life entails. War and loss of peace are inevitable in such cases.
This novel can be compared to a mini-parable about the coming end of the world, about how children are forced to live in an earthly kingdom spoiled by their parents.
In analyzing the bestsellers of 2023, let us single out the book by Gwen. E. Kirby’s What Cassandra Saw. This is a collection of short stories about women on the brink.
“Prozac Nation” by Elizabeth Wurtzel is an autobiography written by an American journalist and writer. It has even been adapted into a movie, a feature film of the same name was released in 2001. The main role in it was played by Christiana Ritchie. Everyone who follows modern literature has probably heard of Elisabeth Wurtzel. The iconic work was written by her at the age of 27. It took a very long time for the book to reach the domestic reader. In fact, it is a chronicle of depression. It is noteworthy that depression in this work is romanticized on the one hand and demonized on the other. The main character at first wants to sympathize, but then she begins to seem like a monster. This is a story of a man running away from himself, looking for himself. It raises the theme of narcissism.
Camilla Deangelis’ book “Whole and Whole” will interest those who love anything unusual. It is a yang-edalt novel that deals with the theme of growing up and accepting oneself. The main character is motherless at the age of sixteen. She decides to go on a journey in search of her father and the answers to the questions that torment her. And the heroine also shows a taste for cannibalism, and the girl must figure out how to live with it. The book was even adapted, starring Timothy Chalamet and Taylor Russell. The film even won a prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2022.
“Feminist City,” by Canadian writer Leslie Kern, focuses on the urbanism of a new generation. The author argues about inequality and discrimination in society. She tries to say that women, are forced to live in a world that is exclusively comfortable for the stronger sex.
Comparison
There are also quite a few interesting books published in 2022. These include “Plague Nights” by Orach Pamuk, dedicated to the topical theme of the pandemic, and “The Man Who Died Twice,” a work written in the detective genre. And a collection of short stories “In First Person” by the famous Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Tracking literary trends is a fascinating activity.
In 2023, works on the theme of forbidden love, prose stories and even historical reflection are still trending. Readers’ favorites continue to be works of fiction. Millions of people around the world are reading novels, detectives and thrillers.
Expect a lot from the book world in 2023. How good the books that come out will be decided by the readers. Opinions, as we all know, vary. But one thing is clear, many of the works that will see the light of day in 2023 have a chance of becoming bestsellers. Some of them may be worthy of a screen adaptation, with others it has already happened.
The main thing is the genre diversity, which can satisfy the most demanding lover of literature. New works come out regularly, all that remains is to find those whose plot satisfies individual preferences.
