Wifedom Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life
Anna Funder
Published 2023
256 pages
The most popular literary criticism books of 2023
Literary criticism is writing about books and how they work. Studies of great authors, guides to movements and periods, close readings and essays on reading itself are all here. Useful for students, and rewarding for any reader who wants to go deeper into a favorite work. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.
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Monsters A Fan's Dilemma
Claire Dederer
Published 2023
288 pages
Thunderclap A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
Laura Cumming
Published 2023
272 pages
The Dictionary People The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Sarah Ogilvie
Published 2023
384 pages
In Light-Years There's No Hurry
Marjolijn van Heemstra
Published 2023
192 pages
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Anthony Bale
2023 · 2025 edition
368 pages
Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?
Zach Zimmerman
Published 2023
148 pages
A Life of One's Own Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Joanna Biggs
Published 2023
259 pages
Unlikeable Female Characters The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
Anna Bogutskaya
Published 2023
339 pages
Small Fires An Epic in the Kitchen
Rebecca May Johnson
Published 2023
192 pages
Lives of the Wives
Carmela Ciuraru
2023 · 2024 edition
336 pages
To Name the Bigger Lie A Memoir in Two Stories
Sarah Viren
Published 2023
304 pages
How to Think Like a Woman Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Regan Penaluna
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
On Women
Susan Sontag
Published 2023
208 pages
Be the Bus The Lost & Profound Wisdom of the Pigeon
Mo Willems
Published 2023
80 pages
The Upstairs Delicatessen On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Dwight Garner
Published 2023
256 pages
But Have You Read the Book? 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
Kristen Lopez
Published 2023
240 pages
Reading for the Love of God
Jessica Hooten Wilson
Published 2023
192 pages
Once Upon a Prime The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Sarah Hart
Published 2023
290 pages
The Magic Border Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine
Arlo Parks
Published 2023
80 pages
Goodbye, Eastern Europe An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Jacob Mikanowski
2023 · 2024 edition
400 pages
We're All in This Together . . .
Tom Papa
Published 2023
336 pages
The Wife of Bath A Biography
Marion Turner
Published 2023
320 pages
How to Flourish An Ancient Guide to Living Well
Aristotle
Published 2023
328 pages