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November 16, 2023By Katy Hershberger

Washington Post Best of the Year

November 16, 2023By Katy Hershberger

The Washington Post named their 10 best books of the year. (Titles included in our Buzz Books collections are noted with an *.)

Fiction
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Loot by Tania James
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
North Woods by Daniel Mason

Nonfiction
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair*
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig*
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich

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