What was the best book you read in 2023? We asked, and you answered! The following are the books submitted by your friends and neighbors as their favorite reads. The titles they couldn't put down, that make them laugh or maybe even cry. Here's what Fauquier Recommends.
Fiction
The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous
The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland
The Windsor Knot by S. J. Bennett
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S. A. Chakraborty
Morning Sun in Wuhan by Ying Chang Compestine
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Magic of Sea Glass by Jenny Hale
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Emily Windsnap series by Liz Kessler
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune
A Good Year by Peter Mayle
We are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Absolution by Alice McDermott
Winter by Marissa Meyer
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
 Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See          Â
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Non-Fiction
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Mother Culture by Karen Andreola
Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
The End of Night by Paul Bogard
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Stephen Brusatte
Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck
The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
The Return of the Gods by Jonathan Cahn
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
From West to East by James S. Gibson
The Wager by David Grann
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
If This is a Man by Primo Levi
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
And There Was Light by Jon Meacham
Over My Dead Body by Greg Melville
 Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule
Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
Accountable by Dashka Slater
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
To Dye For by Alden Wicker
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Reader Come Home by Maryanne Wolf