Top Books of 2023: Staff Picks, Award Winners, and Unforgettable Reads

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Book World writers and editors share their favorite reading experiences from 2023, including "Night of the Living Rez" by Morgan Talty, "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell, "Little Failure" by Gary Shteyngart, "1984" by George Orwell, "Dune" by Frank Herbert, "Okinawa" by Susumu Higa, "The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing, "Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style" by D.A. Miller, "The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O'Farrell, "The Book of Disquiet" by Fernando Pessoa, "Journeys of the Mind" by Peter Brown, and "Collected Poems of Anthony Hecht" edited by Philip Hoy.
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