In honor of the new year, I asked my colleagues here at the Coventry Village Branch about the best books they read in 2023. You can see what we’re reading here at Coventry year round by visiting our Staff Picks Display!
Youth
The Forgotten Girl and The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown 
Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
Deafinitely Awesome: The Story of Acorn by Timy Sullivan, Mary L. Motley and Jenny Campbell
Out There by Seaerra Miller
The Golden Hour by Niki Smith
Northranger by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo
Adult Fiction
Cuyahoga: A Novel by Pete Beatty 
What Wild Women Do: A Novel by Karma Brown
Pineapple Street: A Novel by Jenny Jackson
Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
Commitment: A Novel by Mona Simpson
The Wise Women: A Novel by Gina Sorell
Clock Dance: A Novel by Anne Tyler
Adult Nonfiction
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson 
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature,
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors, and
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction by David G. Haskell
Lost Ghost Stories of Cleveland by William G. Krejci
The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner
