Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed her list of the best books she read in 2023.
The actor posted her selections on Instagram, praising “the extraordinary writers who authored the blissfully transportive and forever remembered books I have had the pleasure of holding, reading and sharing this past year.”
Parker’s list includes two books published by SJP Lit, her Zando Projects imprint: the novels A Quitter’s Paradise by Elysha Chang and Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote.
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the Booker Prize, made Parker’s list, along with Lauren Grodstein’s We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day, Michael Magee’s Close to Home, Janika Oza’s A History of Burning,and Zadie Smith’s The Fraud.
The list included three backlist titles: Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything, Natalia Ginzburg’s The Road to the City, and Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile. She also recommended two forthcoming books: Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! and Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars.
“As always, I’m incapable of picking a favorite, nor would I, even if I was so inclined,” Parker wrote. “I could not compare, nor should they compete. They are all glorious, radically and wonderfully different from one another, and simply share one ingredient—supremely gifted authors. Some are important new voices, some voices you might already know and love as I do.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
