Best Books of 2023 (W. Post)

When I went through the Post's "50 Best Nonfiction" and "50 Best Fiction" year-end lists, I found a total of 12 LGBTQ-related titles! Four are nonfiction: The Critic's Daughter, by Priscilla Gilman; Lou Reed: The King of New York, by Will Hermes; Pageboy, by Elliot Page; and Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Great Dutch Painters, by Benjamin Moser. (Pageboy also made the New York Times list.)

And in the fiction category: After Sappho, by Selby Wynn Schwartz; Blackouts, by Justin Torres (both of which also made the Times list); Family Meal, by Bryan Washington; The House of Doors, by Tan Twan Eng (scroll down when you open the link);  I Will Greet the Sun Again, by Khashayar J. Khabushani; In Memoriam, by Alice Winn (see Oct. 17 item below); Open Throat, by Henry Hoke; and Up with the Sun, by Thomas Mallon.