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Which books from 2023 were important?
We introduce you to four Amazon bestsellers that were most in demand in 2023.
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With a good book it means: go to your favorite place to read and immerse yourself in a beautiful novel.
Is there anything more beautiful?
Books are a gift for the soul at all times.
Whether it's a short break in the evening before going to bed or a longer browse at the weekend.
You should definitely read these four Amazon bestselling novels that were most in demand in 2023.
Popular novels 2023: Perfect entertainment with books that were important
Every Winter is one of the most popular novels on Amazon at Christmas time.
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Trude Teige “When Grandmother Danced in the Rain”
Teige's novel focuses on three unique and strong women.
They are connected in many ways, their behavior patterns influence each other, and the past seems to be the key to their future.
A Norwegian fate that represents many others reveals an unknown chapter in German history.
The annual bestseller invites you to immerse yourself in history.
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When Juni returns to her late grandparents' house on the small Norwegian island, she discovers a photo: It shows her grandmother Tekla as a young woman with a German soldier.
Who is the unknown man?
Her mother can't ask June anymore.
The relationship between her mother and her grandmother was always overshadowed by something unsaid.
June's search for the truth takes him to Berlin and the small town of Demmin in eastern Germany, which was overrun by the Russian army after the surrender.
Juni realizes that it's about much more than a hidden love.
And that their discoveries have consequences for their own happiness.
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Fischer Publishing
Trude Teige “When Grandmother Danced in the Rain”
2023, S. Fischer Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-949465-12-3
Price: Hardcover 22 euros, e-book €16.99, 384 pages (different format)
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Emily Stone “Every Winter”
After “Forever in December,” Emily Stone continues romantically with “Every Year in Winter.”
The novel is a highly emotional read about great love and the painful consequences of a single mistake.
It is the perfect winter novel to snuggle up in and is perfect for anyone looking for romantic reading adventures.
Every year at the festival of love, Cassie meets the man with whom she spent her childhood.
The man she always secretly loved and who always seemed unreachable.
But one kiss on a snowy winter day could change everything between them.
Suddenly more than just friendship seems possible.
If it weren't for life that drives them apart again and again.
But then the unimaginable happens: a terrible stroke of fate brings the two back together and threatens to break their love forever...
Blurb/Penguin
Emily Stone “Every Winter”
Translated from English by Babette Schröder
2023 Penguin, ISBN-13 978-3-328-11011-8
Price: Paperback €12, 448 pages
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Colleen Hoover “Just One More Time”
The novel “Just One More Time” is the translation of the bestseller “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover, who enjoyed great success with the book on TikTok and which was made into a film.
Spending the Christmas holidays with a romantic story couldn't be better.
For everyone who can't get enough of emotional stories.
When Lily meets Ryle, all her dreams seem to come true: a new city, her first job and then Ryle - attractive, wealthy and head over heels in love with Lily.
Lily's difficult childhood is forgotten.
Atlas, her first love, is also forgotten.
But then Lily happens to meet Atlas again, and suddenly Ryle shows a side of him that she never expected from him.
Blurb/dtv
Colleen Hoover “Just One More Time”
Translated from American English by Katarina Ganslandt
2020 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-71862-2
Price: paperback €12.95, e-book €9.99, 448 pages (different format)
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Carsten Sebastian Henn “The Book Walker”
Carsten Henn describes in “The Book Walker” what connects people and makes books so unique that you want to sink into them.
Anyone who knows Nina George's “The Book Ship of Monsieur Perdu” should take a closer look at Carsten Henn's novel.
A wonderful feel-good novel that belongs on the bookshelf with these six books.
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There are special customers to whom the bookseller Carl Christian Kollhoff brings the books they have ordered home, in the evening after closing time, on his walk through the picturesque streets of the city.
Because these people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world.
When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl so that they all, including Kollhoff himself, find the courage to approach each other...
Blurb/Piper
Carsten Sebastian Henn “The Book Walker”
2020 Piper, ISBN-13 978-3-86612-477-6
Price: hardcover €15, e-book €11.99, 224 pages (different format)
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