The Year in Books

In offering some of my favorite books from 2023 (I chose those that I didn’t get a chance to write on), I want to pay attention to what Nunez’s narrator says we should: the states of feeling these books evoked, the questions they brought to my mind, the details that stuck with me. A year from now, I probably won’t remember their plots or their arguments, but I will remember what it was like to spend time in their worlds.