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YEAR END: My Best Books of 2023

Hal Hammons · Citizen of Heaven

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Register your feedback here. Always good to hear from you! We’re finally at the end of the road — the best books I’ve read in 2023. Here I discuss 10 books I read in the back half of the year and mix in the best from the first half. From self-help to Jesus allegories to nuclear apocalypse, you’ll find a little bit of everything here. Enjoy. Books that made the list (*=appeared on one of the Halfway Point lists): Salt: A Global History The Blood of Heroes * East of Eden, by John Steinbeck The Pearl, by John Steinbeck QBQ: The Question Behind the Question * The Character of Jesus, by S.E. Jeffer

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