What were some of the most important books to come out of Southern California last year? Check out ‘Noteworthy.”
These are six of 10 books published in 2023 that our editors picked for the third annual ‘Noteworthy’ salutes to regional authors whose works made an impact. Great new books get published every day. Just take our own little corner of the world: It’s almost impossible to capture the breadth and scope of Southern California’s literary scene and its impact on the nation’s book culture. Let’s take a look back for a bit and appreciate some of the highlights of last year.
“When I was writing ‘We the Animals,’ I was broke,” he recalled. “After the book came out, I had stability. I got these fancy fellowships, and then I became a professor at UCLA, and I had time to write built into my job. So I wasn’t snatching bits of time whenever I could, but instead had it be the center of my life.”
Critics were enamored of the book; NPR’s Maureen Corrigan called it “Sweeping, ingenious … A kiss to build a dream on,” while Hamilton Cain with the Star Tribune described it as a “tour de force.” In addition to winning the prestigious National Book Award for Fiction, the novel also was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
And in naming “Gangsters Don’t Die” a Notable Book of 2023, CrimeReads’ Dwyer Murphy said, “Goldberg’s Gangsterland series has been one of the standouts in the world of crime fiction in recent years. … Sal Cupertino, the hit man on the lam, posing as a rabbi, is one of the more original figures you’ll come across, and now he’s making one last desperate gambit to get his life back. You won’t want to miss these books, so if you haven’t already, brush up on your Goldberg.
The novel garnered a lot of attention, from being longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize to making most-anticipated-book lists in no less than Time, Salon, Literary Hub, The Millions and Library Journal. Science Friday named it a Best Book of the Year, too. “Rich and riveting” People magazine called it when it was named Book of the Week
Yunte Huang grew up in southeastern China, moving to Alabama in 1991. His previous books include the nonfiction titles “Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History” and “Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History.” Of “Daughter of the Dragon,” a New York Times reviewer called Huang “a wry and generous storyteller.
In 2023, Tobar, now a professor of English and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine, came out with the powerful nonfiction release,The work expertly blends memoir, reportage, and cultural criticism to explore the essence of Latino identity. Critics raved: It won the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, was named one of Notable Books of 2023 by both Time and the New York Times, and was a Top 10 Book of 2023 at Chicago Public Library.
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