2023's Best Books
I meant to do this a few days ago so there was more time before the holidays, but here's a quick list of the best books that I read that were released in 2023. Obviously, I didn't read every book that came out this year, and I'm only listing the best books I read that were actually released in the 2023 calendar year.
In my opinion, the two very best books released in 2023 were An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), and True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Robert Greenfield (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO).
(The rest of this list is in no particular order)
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
C.W. Goodyear (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The World: A Family History of Humanity
Simon Sebag Montefiore (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
France On Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
Julian Jackson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
Adam Goodheart (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Mary Beard (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People
Jessica Wärnberg (BOOK | KINDLE)
We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
Alex Rowell (BOOK | KINDLE)
Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
Katie Spalding (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
Kevin Cook (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
Chris Wimmer (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
King: A Life
Jonathan Eig (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove (BOOK | KINDLE)
Who Believes Is Not Alone: My Life Beside Benedict XVI
Georg Gänswein with Saverio Gaeta (BOOK | KINDLE)
Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East
Uri Kaufman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American History
Laurence Jurdem (BOOK | KINDLE)
White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America
Shelley Fraser Mickle (BOOK | KINDLE)
Romney: A Reckoning
McKay Coppins (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Peter Frankopan (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
LeBron
Jeff Benedict (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
Abraham Riesman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House
Chris Whipple (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)
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