Ep 24 - Favorites - Kids Nonfiction & Grown-Up Reads

It's here! It's time to share my favorite reads of 2023.

In this episode, Chrissie shares her 10 favorite kids nonfiction books and 10 favorite grown-up reads of 2023.

FEATURED BOOKS:

Kids Nonfiction

• ANIMALS IN PANTS by Suzy Levinson, illustrated by Kevin and Kristen Howdeshell
• BUTT OR FACE? A HILARIOUS GUESSING GAME BOOK FOR KIDS by Kari LaVelle
• FUNGI GROW by Maria Gianferrari, illustrated by Diana Sudyka
• GOOD BOOKS FOR BAD CHILDREN by Beth Kephart, illustrated by Chloe Bristol 
• READY, SET, RUN!: THE AMAZING NEW YORK CITY MARATHON by Leslie Kimmelman, illustrated by Jessie Hartland
• SEARCH FOR A GIANT SQUID by Amy Seto Forrester, illustrated by Andy Chou Musser
• STRANDED!: A MOSTLY TRUE STORY FROM ICELAND by Aevar Por Benediktsson, illustrated by Anne Wilson
• THEY HOLD THE LINE: WILDFIRES, WILDLANDS,  AND THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO BRAVE THEM by Dan Paley, illustrated by Molly Mendoza
• TUMBLE by Adriana Hernandez Bergstrom
• UNSEEN JUNGLE: THE MICROBES THAT SECRETLY CONTROL OUR WORLD by Eleanor Spicer Rice, illustrated by Rob Wilson

Grown-Up Reads

• ANOTHER MARVELOUS THING by Laurie Colwin
• COUPLETS by Maggie Milner
• EMERGENCY by Kathleen Alcott
• THE GIRLS by John Bowen
• HIJAB BUTCH BLUES by Lamya H. (audiobook)
• IN MEMORIAM by Alice Winn
• ONE WOMAN SHOW by Christine Coulson
• ROMANTIC COMEDY by Curtis Sittenfeld
• TERRACE STORY by Hilary Leichter
• TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett

Possible Usurpers (aka even more grown-up reads)

• BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton
• THE VASTER WILDS by Lauren Groff
• THE UPSTAIRS DELICATESSEN: ON EATING, READING, READING ABOUT EATING, AND EATING WHILE READING by Dwight Garner

Article mentioned in the show:

NYT - Critics Picks of 2023

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