--- description: Find out why "I Have Some Questions For You" by Rebecca Makkai is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. title: 'I Have Some Questions For You' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46af6e42a826e673/698a41fa9d83e86830b97d8d/IHaveSomeQuestionsForYou.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 14, 2023 # I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Though [Rebecca Makkai’s _I Have Some Questions For You_](https://time.com/6255238/rebecca-makkai-i-have-some-questions-for-you-interview/ "undefined") may read like a thriller, it’s as much an exploration of perspective and assumption in the #MeToo era as it is a mystery. Bodie is a well-known podcaster and film professor who returns to the tony boarding school she attended as a troubled teenager to teach a course. There, she’s thrown back into memories from her senior year, when the murder of her classmate rocked campus. The school’s young Black athletic coach went to prison for the crime, but now that Bodie is back, she’s starting to wonder if they got the wrong guy. As Bodie reconciles her past and current biases with current attitudes toward social justice and retribution, she makes startling revelations that cause her to question everything she thought she knew about the murder—and to interrogate her own obsession with it. —_Cady Lang_ **Buy Now**: _I Have Some Questions For You_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9780593490143 "undefined") | [Amazon ](https://amzn.to/45Z96C1 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332470/i-have-some-questions-for-you/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332470/i-have-some-questions-for-you/"},"headline":"I Have Some Questions For You","datePublished":"2023-11-14T12:30:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:25:23.529Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332470/i-have-some-questions-for-you/","keywords":["Books","list","best books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46af6e42a826e673/698a41fa9d83e86830b97d8d/IHaveSomeQuestionsForYou.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt46af6e42a826e673/698a41fa9d83e86830b97d8d/IHaveSomeQuestionsForYou.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332470/i-have-some-questions-for-you/","name":"I Have Some Questions For You"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/WppeqCEz/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-11-13T19:20:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WppeqCEz.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332470/i-have-some-questions-for-you/","duration":"PT1M28S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332470/i-have-some-questions-for-you/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```