Last of the book-related housekeeping for 2023 - I'd forgotten that I'd introduced the idea of doing a sort of loose Books Of The Year thing back in March; that post retrospectively collected all the years up to and including 2022. I had suggested doing it every January for the previous year's collection of books, without, cleverly, actually definitely committing to anything. Well, here I am doing it; these are my nominations for 2023. As before, the Comment text is lifted verbatim from the linked review as a sort of amuse-bouche, if you will.
| Year | Author | Title | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | William Gibson | Count Zero | his brain is wired to explode, his hair has the plague, his entire leg is a missile, etc. |
| Tarjei Vesaas | The Ice Palace | her semi-frozen corpse should slurp out of the ice and spoil someone's picnic | |
| Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | Well, North Carolina will be pretty much like South Carolina, right? Only, you know, further north and all |
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