You may not be reading the same book as five other commuters in your subway car, but you’re likely to be able to find a book that absolutely captures you. All this has led us to believe that the book world is a bit weirdly, and maybe wonderfully, decentralized at the moment. But many year-end lists have immediately sent us to the bookstore, searching for titles we seem to have missed. Where was the big fall novel that everyone seemed to be reading? If you can think of a book that checks this box, it was probably Zadie Smith’s The Fraud, her first foray into historical fiction-a book that took two real-life characters and imagined an epic and emotional landscape for them. If 2023 was a lot of fun-frothy delights like Jenny Jackson’s Pineapple Street, a cool and compelling new novel from Emma Cline, heartfelt family sagas like Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful, and effervescent debuts like Caroline O’Donoghue’s The Rachel Incident-it was also a year that was perhaps a bit fractured in the book world.
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