Best books of 2023: Top 30 must-read titles from the past year
nypost.com“Wellness”Nathan Hill (Knopf)At turns (darkly) hilarious and heartbreaking, this 624-page novel from the author of “The Nix” skewers Gen X cynicism, self-care devotion, cancel culture and aspirational wealth — with a brutal breakdown of how Boomers fall for conspiracy theories online.
Jack and Elizabeth fall in and out of love, raise a difficult child and strive, often begrudgingly, to climb the corporate and social ladder, in gentrified Chicago, until the suburban dream starts to look more like a nightmare.“The Berry Pickers“Amanda Peters (Catapult)In July of 1962, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine from Nova Scotia to pick berries for the summer.
Weeks later, their youngest child, Ruthie, vanishes. Despite the family’s frantic attempts to find her, nothing turns up. Decades later, the heartbreak from her disappearance still reverberates.
Meanwhile in Maine, a girl named Norma grows up in a family full of secrets and explanations that have never quite made sense.
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