Year in Review: 2023 Book List
2023 was another bicoastal year! We started in Santa Barbara, and moved back to DC in the summer. It was a hard move for me, but the upside was returning to a book nerd city — DC is easily the most literary place I’ve ever lived in, and I’ve relished access to author talks and literary events, and even just going down to the pool and seeing everyone there reading. I attended three author talks (Pierce Brown, Ayana Mathis, and Bryan Washington) put on by two different local independent bookstores ( Politics and Prose and Loyalty Books , partnered with the DC Public Library). I discovered pristine hardcover books in local Little Free Libraries . I loved every minute of the National Book Festival, where I heard talks from Amor Towles, Jesmyn Ward, Chasten Buttigieg, Camille Dungy, Joy Harjo, and George Saunders. I had more time to read in DC, and also downloaded Libby for my commute and listened to audiobooks for the first time since 2019. Another highlight of the year was the Overeducat
