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2023's best books: Victorian sex, apocalypse and Prince Harry
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Our literary editors give us the lowdown on what they’ve been reading this last year - from steamy sex to the end of the world - and what should be on your Christmas gift list.
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Guests:
- Robbie Millen, Literary Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times.
- Johanna Thomas-Corr, Chief Literary Critic, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones
For the full list of Times & Sunday Times best books of the year, read more: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/best-books-2023-gmbb8spb3
You can buy every book on the list at timesbookshop.co.uk
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Old God’s Time - Sebastian Barry
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
The Future - Naomi Alderman
Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
Fire Weather - John Vaillant
Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart
But What Can I Do? - Alastair Campbell
How Westminster Works… And Why It Doesn’t - Ian Dunt
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
The New Life - Tom Crewe
Spare - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
The Woman In Me - Britney Spears
My Name Is Barbra - Barbra Streisand
Paris: The Memoir - Paris Hilton
Erotic Vagrancy - Roger Lewis
The Earth Transformed - Peter Frankopan
Pathogenesis - Jonathan Kennedy
Eve - Cat Bohannon
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Long Island - Colm Tóibín
Knife - Salman Rushdie
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