Some of My Favorite Books I’ve Read So Far in 2023

A few weeks ago, I wrote about why I read, and in that post, I talked some about trying to read a book or two each week. As of this post, I have finished fifty two books this year, so one for every week. Today, I want to talk about some of my favorite books that I have read so far this year. When I say favorite books from this year, I don’t necessarily mean books that came out this year. Rather, I mean books that I read this year. Sometimes that means books that debuted this year, but other times it means books that may be over one hundred years old. This year I’ve read books as varied as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) to Stephen Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley’s Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 (2011). With that in mind, let’s get started talking about five of my favorite books from this past year.

Ayize Jama-Everett and Tristan Roach The Last Count of Monte Cristo

As you know, if you have been reading my blog for any length of time, I went to the South of France this year on a study travel trip where I taught a class on Black expatriate writers in France. Since we were going to Marseille and planning to visit the Château d’If, I reread…