Five Awesome Fiction Books I Read in 2023

Dean Brooks
6 min readJan 2, 2024
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One thing I’ve found recently is that it’s getting harder to find fiction that appeals to me as a middle-aged man. This seems to apply to most mediums, though it’s most prominant in film. Rarely are films geared toward those male and older than 35. If it isn’t a superhero fantasy four-quadrant epic, it’s the latest mopey romance, or it’s a movie about a toy of some kind. I think this is why films like Top Gun

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Dean Brooks

Novelist. I also enjoy writing about topics like business, investing, culture, and technology.