If this article has no paragraph separations, please double-click on the title. That will create a more readable version. 2023 was another great year for the Kerrian’s Notebook subscribers to win books. Winners were chosen randomly during quarterly drawings, using random.org. The winners were then notified through Facebook and/or the email addresses they had provided. A list of at least ten books was sent to the winners, from which they picked their prize(s). The majority of the books have been (and will continue to be in 2024) mysteries, thrillers, and novels of suspense, in keeping with the Kerrian’s Notebook theme. The books were purchased at indie bookstores, brick & mortar chain bookstores, and a delightful gently-used-hardcover bookstore about 40 miles from here. Many of the books were stay-awake reads, many were bestsellers, some were donated by the authors, and some were passed along to other readers. Because of the participation of our Kerrian subscribers, we were able to give away 130 books in 2023! Tell your friends! If they subscribe, and let us know that you referred them, you get a free book (from a 2024 list). Looking for a great read? Take a look at the terrific books the Kerrian’s Notebook subscribers chose in 2023: Kristi Abbott “Kernel of Truth” Jeffrey Archer “Heads You Win”   David Baldacci “Dream Town” David Baldacci  “Simply Lies” Mario Batali/Webster “America Farm to Table” cookbook Amanda Bestor-Siegal “The Caretakers” Laura Bradford – “Hearse and Buggy” Laura Bradford “Just Plain Murder” Sandra Brown  “Blind Tiger” Sandra Brown – “Overkill” Theresa Brown – “The Shift” Frank Bruni – “The Beauty of Dusk”   Kris Calvin – “One Murder More” Ann Cleeves “The Heron’s Cry” Jenny Colgan “Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery” Michael Connelly “Desert Star” Sheila Connolly “Murder at Mansion” Cate Conte “Whisker of a Doubt” Cate Conte – “Witch Trial” Bernard Cornwell “Death of Kings” Bernard Cornwell – “Heretic” Robert Crais – “Racing the Light” Jessie Crockett – “Sticky Situation” Martin Cruz Smith “Independence Square” Clive Cussler/DuBrul “The Sea Wolves”   Maddie Day “Murder at a Cape Bookstore” (2) Vicki Delany “Deadly Summer Nights” Nelson DeMille “The Maze” Robert Dugoni “Her Deadly Game” Robert Dugoni – “In Her Tracks” Robert Dugoni “Silent Sisters”   Janet Evanovich “Recovery Agent” Ramona Emerson “Shutter”   Joseph Finder “The Switch” Joanna Fluke – “Banana Cream Pie Murder” Joanne Fluke “Blueberry Muffin Murder” Melissa Fu “Peach Blossom Spring” Lisa Gardner – “Crash and Burn” Kellye Garrett – “Like A Sister” Eva Gates – “Read and Buried” Eva Gates “Something Read, Something Dead” Debra Goldstein “Two Bites Too Many” M.K. Graff  “Death Unscripted” Sue Grafton  “Y Is for Yesterday” Scott Graham  “Yellowstone Standoff” Sarah Graves “Death By Chocolate Frosted Donut” Sarah Graves “Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle” Mark Greaney  “Burner” Phillippa Gregory  “The Red Queen” John Grisham “Boys from Biloxi”   Chris Hadfield “Apollo Murders” Carolyn Haines “Game of Bones” Carolyn Haines “Garland of Bones” Peter F. Hamilton  “Salvation” Steve Hamilton “Dead Man Running” Jenny Han ”To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” Kristin Hannah “The Four Winds” Sherry Harris “Absence of Alice” Sherry Harris “From Beer to Eternity” Sherry Harris “Sell Low, Sweet Harriet” Noah Hawley “Anthem” Jody Hedlund “The Preacher’s Bride” Alice Henderson “A Solitude of Wolverines” Erin Hilderbrand “The Five-Star Weekend” Tami Hoag “The Alibi Man” Anthony Horowitz “Alex Rider: Point Blank” Gregg Hurwitz “Dark Horse” (2) Gregg Hurwitz “Hell Bent” Gregg Hurwitz “Prodigal Son”   Polly Iyer “Indiscretion” Jonathan Kellerman “City of the Dead” Grace Li “Portrait of a Thief” Laura Lippman “Baltimore Blues” Pitticus Lore “Rise of Nine” Linda Lovely “Bones to Pick”   Debbie Macomber “The Best is Yet to Come” Debbie Macomber “Dakota Born” Debbie Macomber “Snowflakes & Starlight” Susan Mallery “Christmas Wedding Guest” Mary Marks “Forget Me Knot” Ben Macintyre “Napoleon of Crime, Adam Worth, Master Thief” Michael Mann/Meg Gardiner “Heat 2” Fern Michaels “Santa Cruise” Meier/Hollis/Ross “Yule Log Murder” Terrie Moran & Jessica Fletcher ”Killing in a Koi Pond”   Nancy Naigle “And Then There Was You” Carlene O’Connor “Murder in Irish Churchyard” Delia Owens “Where the Crawdads Sing” (2)   Sara Paretsky “Overboard” James Patterson “Triple Cross” Louise Penny “A Better Man” Louise Penny “All the Devils are Here” Louise Penny “Brutal Telling” Tom Perrotta ”Tracy Flick Can’t Win” Amy Pershing “A Side of Murder” Amy Pershing “Murder is No Picnic” Doug Preston “Lost City of the Monkey God” Mark Pryor “Die Around Sundown”   Annie Rains “The Christmas Village” Deanna Raybourn  “Killers of a Certain Age” J.D. Robb “Desperation in Death” Nora Roberts “Blood and Bone” Nora Roberts “Born In Ice” Nora Roberts “Chasing Fire” Nora Roberts  “Identity” Sarah Robinson “Dreaming of a Heart Lake Christmas” James Rollins “Kingdom of Bones” Barbara Ross “Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody” Barbara Ross  “Muddled Through” Barbara Ross  “Musseled Out” Barbara Ross “Sealed Off” Hank Phillippi Ryan “The Murder List”   Daniel Silva “Black Widow” Daniel Silva “The Cellist” Alexander McCall Smith “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” Danielle Steel “Palazzo” Mark Stevens  “Melancholy Howl” Mark Stevens “Trapline”   Nancy Thayer “All the Days of Summer” Brad Thor “Rising Tiger” (2) Amor Towles “Lincoln Highway”   Tina Whittle “The Dangerous Edge of Things” Lynn C Willis “Tell Me You Love Me” Marty Wingate” Bodies in the Library” Don Winslow “City of Dreams” Rick Yancey “The Infinite Sea”