Our Favorite Books from 2023

Puck loves napping in someone's lap while they read

Each year, Theater in Asylum releases a list of plays, books, movies, and more that delighted us, challenged us, and changed us. Below is our first list, a crowd-sourced list of books our community loved in 2023.

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Fiction

• A Bend In The Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Infamous by Lex Croucher
• The Long Run by James Acker
• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
• Rouge by Mona Awad
• The Swimmers by Julia Otsuka
• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Non-Fiction

• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
• Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
• Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
• The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront Occupation by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman
• Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
• The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega (non-fiction)
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
• Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
• The Women’s House of Detention by Hugh Ryan

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