Unabridged: The Best of 2023…So Far with Lupita Aquino, Liberty Hardy, and Greta Johnsen
Here by popular demand is our first Unabridged mid-year best of’s (so-far) episode, featuring a trio of our favorite bookish friends – Book Riot’s Liberty Hardy, Lupita Aquino (aka @Lupita.Reads) and Nerdette’s Greta Johnsen. We list and discuss our favorite 2023 releases we’ve read, the backslist we’re obsessed with, and a few picks we’re looking forward to in the back half of the year.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.
Nerdette (WBEZ Chicago)
“Ep. 195 The Best Books of 2021 with Lupita Aquino and Morgan Hoit” (The Stacks)
“Ep. 131 The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio — The Stacks Book Club (Lupita Aquino)” (The Stacks)
“Ep. 127 Crushes and Controversy with Lupita Aquino” (The Stacks)
@Lupita.Reads (IG)
All the Books! (Book Riot)
The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
Take What You Need by Idra Novi
“Nerdette Book Club: Idra Novey on ‘Take What You Need’” (Nerdette, WBEZ Chicago)
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
“Nerdette Book Club: Michael Bennett on ‘Better the Blood’” (Nerdette, WBEZ Chicago)
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
“Reading While Lapsed: A Conversation with BookTok Icon Lupita Aquino” (Lapsed)
“Ep. 253 I Tend to Write About It with Lamya H.” (The Stacks)
We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
“Child in viral Portland police hug photo missing, 5 family members dead after California cliff crash” (Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian)
We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian (audiobook)
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro Varela
The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
Big Swiss y Jen Beagin
The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether
Rivermouth by Alejandra Oliva
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
“Ep. 258 Long-Suffering Basketball Fans with José Olivarez” (The Stacks)
Soledad by Angie Cruz
Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
“Your summer books preview” (Nerdette)
Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens
Flores and Miss Paula by Melissa Rivero
The Affairs of the Falcons by Melissa Rivero
“Best books of 2021” (Nerdette)
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
More is More by Molly Baz
Chicky Chicky Bread Bread (Molly Baz from Instagram)
Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
Blackouts by Justin Torres
We the Animals by Justin Torres
We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar, 2018)
Company by Shannon Sanders
Creep by Myriam Gurba
The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper
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