The best books of 2023

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My favorite read in 2023

Book cover of The Watchers

Chris Sherrit Why did I love this book?

I loved how dark and unsettling this book is.

I constantly found myself at points throughout the day when I wasn’t reading, thinking of the characters and how they would deal with the looming pressures. I was so unsettled at points that I even felt the tingling of fear when walking past windows, my hair standing on end when I was left alone, and in my brain thinking of The Watchers.

By A.M. Shine,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Watchers as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE produced by M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN and starring DAKOTA FANNING. You can't see them. But they can see you. This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2023

Book cover of Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Chris Sherrit Why did I love this book?

I really enjoyed how this book takes a more factual approach. Always keen to learn more about the human body and the dark acts humans carry out on each other, I was enthralled by the stories Sue tells of real-world murders and deaths.

Although factual, I found it fascinating just how much emotion I felt reading Sue’s book. I can’t deny that I was choked up at quite a few points.

By Sue Black,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Written in Bone as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLDEN DAGGER FOR NON FICTION 2021

'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author of All That Remains, Sue Black reveals the secrets hidden deep within our bones.
Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell.…


My 3rd favorite read in 2023

Book cover of Coldheart Canyon

Chris Sherrit Why did I love this book?

I love just how f**ked up this book is (pardon my language). I’m a huge horror fan, knowing Clive Barker as one of the legends of the genre I was very pleased to find out how much he didn’t hold back in this book.

I’ve watched many movies and read many books and this will forever be the book that I remember frowning, squinting and retorting in disgust at while also being unable to put it down. I wouldn’t want to guess how many times I blurted out “what the...” while reading this book.

By Clive Barker,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Coldheart Canyon as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

“[Clive Barker] is a mapmaker of the mind, charting the farthest reaches of the imagination.” —Washington Post

From The Books of Blood to Hellraiser to Imajica, Abarat, and Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker’s extraordinary vision knows no bounds. With Coldheart Canyon, the New York Times bestselling master of dark fantasy who has been called “a cross between Stephen King and Gabriel Garcia Marquez” (Boston Herald) thrills readers with a “Hollywood ghost story” as audacious and chilling as anything he (or anyone else) has ever written.

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Growth

By Chris Sherrit,

Book cover of Growth

What is my book about?

A dark, violent story about Matt, a solicitor suffering the inferiority of this world. Long has he fantasized of acting out his macabre feelings, taking sharp and blunt instruments alike to unravel the meat sacks that are his frustrations in his world. Always knowing that he was better than people, Matt struggles to contain his growing rage. A beast is growing inside him, a massacre waiting to happen, a bloodbath that excites him.

Another thing grows inside him though, something more physical, something blurry at the edge of his psyche. Unaware, it drains him of his humanity, fueling his lizard brain and pouring gasoline on his darkest thoughts. Is this growth the cause of his murderous intent? Is it something he should get looked at?

Book cover of The Watchers
Book cover of Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
Book cover of Coldheart Canyon

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