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Best of 2023: Staff Favorites for Adults

The Westport Library staff has picked our favorite 50 books from 2023! Read them for free with your Library Card!

Link to Ink Blood Sister Tribe by Emma Torzs in the Catalog

Link to Forget Me Not by Julie Soto in the Catalog

Link to Super Bloom by Megan Tady in the Catalog

Link to Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel in the Catalog

Link to Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez in the Catalog

Link to To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose in the Catalog

Link to Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby in the Catalog

Link to Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood in the Catalog

Link to Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah in the Catalog

Link to Yellowface by R. F. Kuang in the Catalog

Link to The Fraud by Zadie Smith in the Catalog

Link to Bear With Me Now by Katie Shepard in the Catalog

Link to The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese in the Catalog

Link to Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okusun in the Catalog

Link to The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon in the Catalog

Link to Tom Lake by Ann Patchett in the Catalog

Link to The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry in the Catalog

Link to Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson in the Catalog

Link to Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano in the Catalog

Link to Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent in the Catalog

Link to The Wager by David Grann in the Catalog

Link to In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune in the Catalog

Link to Banyan Moon by Thao Thai in the Catalog

Link to Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes in the Catalog

Link to Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein in the Catalog

Link to Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane in the Catalog

Link to Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale in the Catalog

Link to Hello Stranger by Katherine Center in the Catalog

Link to The Spectacular by Fiona Davis in the Catalog

Link to Homecoming by Kate Morton in the Catalog

Link to I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai in the Catalog

Link to The Only One Left by Riley Sager in the Catalog

Link to Her, Too by Bonnie Kistler in the Catalog

Link to Witch King by Martha Wells in the Catalog

Link to Unshuttered by Patricia Smith in the Catalog

Link to The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei in the Catalog

Link to Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond in the Catalog

Link to Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor in the Catalog

Link to The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem in the Catalog

Link to The Art of the Straight Line by Lou Reed in the Catalog

Link to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride in the Catalog

Link to The Art Thief by Michael Finkel in the Catalog

Link to Spare by Prince Harry in the Catalog

Link to Pageboy by Elliot Page in the Catalog

Link to Zero Days by Ruth Ware in the Catalog

Link to The Stranded by Sarah Daniels in the Catalog

Link to The Postcard by Ann Berest in the Catalog

Link to The Girls Who Fought Crime by Maj. Gen Mari K. Eder in the Catalog

Link to A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung in the Catalog

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