A while ago, I did a list of my favorite books featuring female vampires for Shepherd, the book discovery site.

They’ve just published a new featured called “Favorite Reads in 2023”, featuring the selections of almost 900 authors. We were asked to choose our three favorite books from our reading over the last year, with no restrictions on when the book was published (so you’ll find books published this year and some old classics as well). The master list of the Top 100 books is sortable by genre and there’s a great mix of fiction and non-fiction. It was great to recognize some of my favorites (An Immense World by Ed Yong, Matrix by Lauren Goff, The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow) and I’ve already added more suggestions to my appallingly long “to read” list.

If you’re wondering what to dive into next, check out the site and these lists – and then read away.