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Best of the Best: 2023

Posted by Becky on Thursday, Nov 30, 2023

The Best of the Best for 2023 is coming soon! ICPL staff nominated nearly 140 titles released this year as their favorite reads of 2023. Follow us daily on social media as we recommend titles, share lists of great reads and announce the winning title for the year!

 

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December 1-December 21

Honorable Mention Titles

We will highlight one title each day as an honorable mention. Honorable mentions will have earned multiple nominations by ICPL staff, but didn’t quite rise to the highest ranking for their genre (check out the upcoming Staff Genre Lists for those staff favorites!).

December 22-30

Staff Genre Lists

One list will be shared each day, containing all nominated titles from one of the following categories: Children’s, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Romance, Nonfiction, Biography/Memoir, and Fiction. Browse these lists to see recommended titles and to satiate your curiosity on which title received the greatest number of votes for that genre.

December 31

Best of the Best Announcement

Find out the title of the book that was nominated more frequently than any other, our Best of the Best for 2023.

 

Interested in browsing past lists? Take a look at these staff favorites from 2020, 2021, and 2022. Enjoy discovering your next great read!

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  • The Dutch house : a novel

    by Ann Patchett

    FICTION Patchett Ann
    Historical Fiction

    At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another.

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    "The Dutch House" compiles a set of memories and stories that span the course of five decades. Ann Patchett skillfully moves us back and forth in time, with the house serving as an integral piece to our understanding of the characters and changing family dynamics. I love the moments and conversations between Danny and his sister Maeve. One particular conversation that stuck with me throughout my reading was when Danny and Maeve were discussing whether or not the past could be viewed as it actually was or whether the past is altered by the lens we use at present. I really enjoyed reading Patchett's, "The Dutch House! It’s a great read for those who enjoy well developed characters, interesting family relationships, fairy tale undercurrents and a historical setting. -Becky
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