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2023 Books

Passerby: Best Books of 2023

21 December 2023

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Passerby: Best Books of 2023

[see also 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

  1. Working Girl
    On Selling Art and Selling Sex
    Sophia Giovannitti
  2. The Bee Sting
    Paul Murray
  3. Molly
    Blake Butler
  4. The Guest
    Emma Cline
  5. Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
    Claire Donato

honorable mentions

  1. Land of Milk and Honey
    C Pam Zhang
  2. Big Swiss
    Jen Beagin
  3. Down the Drain
    Julia Fox

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