#Books read 2023

[ididsomethingbadly]

Books read in 2023 (in order of how much I liked them):

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (reread)*

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (reread)*

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (reread)*

Happy Place by Emily Henry

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle*

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Courting Miss Lancaster by Sarah M. Eden

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Dear Child by Romy Hausmann

Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan

* read aloud with son & husband

* read aloud with husband

* read aloud with son

#books #books read 2023 #my post

[mongrelmutt]

My books read list for 2023! For the first time I met my goal of at least one book a week!! 😁

1. "A Conspiracy of Kings" -- Megan Whalen Turner

2. "Thick as Thieves" -- Megan Whalen Turner

3. "Return of the Thief" -- Megan Whalen Turner

4. "Vatican II" -- John O'Malley

5. "The Catholic Church: A Short History" -- Hans Küng, translated by John Bowden

6. "Confessions" and "Letter to Coroticus" -- St. Patrick

7. "Through the Brazilian Wilderness" -- Theodore Roosevelt

8. "The Wind in the Willows" -- Kenneth Grahame

9. "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" -- Kate Clancy

10. "Star Wars: Padawan" -- Kiersten White

11. "Star Wars: Master and Apprentice" -- Claudia Gray

12. "Deep Down Dark" -- Héctor Tobar

13. "The Lost World" -- Michael Crichton

14. "Provida Mater Ecclesia: Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII Concerning Secular Institutes" (English translation) -- Pope Pius XII

15. "Frankenstein" -- Mary Shelley

16. "Kenobi" -- John Jackson Miller

17. "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" -- Mary Roach

18. "Trigun" and "Trigun Maximum" -- Yasuhiro Nightow

19. "Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution" -- Andrew M. Wehrman

20. "Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith" -- Eve Tushnet

21. "The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth" -- Beth Allison Bar

22. "Turtles All The Way Down" -- John Green

23. "All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1)" -- Martha Wells

24. "Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries #2)" -- Martha Wells

25. "Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries #3)" -- Martha Wells

26. "Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries #4) -- Martha Wells

27. "Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5) -- Martha Wells

28. "Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) -- Martha Wells

29. "Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History" -- Erik Larson

30. "The Johnstown Flood" -- David McCullough

31. "The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World" -- Riley Black

32. "Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel" -- Nancy F. Castaldo

33. "The Rise and Reign of Mammals: A New History from the Shadows of the Dinosaurs to Us" -- Steve Brusatte

34. "Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Dog" -- John Bradshaw

35. "Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (or Don't)" -- Alex Bezzerides

36. "Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive" -- Philipp Dettmer

37. "Catholicism and ADHD: Finding Holiness Despite Distractions" -- Alex R. Hey, PCAC

38. "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery" -- Sam Kean

39. "An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" -- Ed Yong

40. "Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig" -- Mark Essig

41. "The Mind's Eye" -- Oliver Sacks

42. "Loveless" -- Alice Oseman

43. "The Monkey Trial: John Scopes and the Battle Over Teaching Evolution" -- Anita Sanchez

44. "The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet" -- Henry Fountain

45. "Kiki's Delivery Service" -- Eiko Kadono (translated by Emily Balistrieri)

46. "Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas" -- Jennifer Raff

47. "Ancillary Justice" -- Ann Leckie

48. "An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives" -- Matt Richtel

49. "System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries #7)" -- Martha Wells

50. "Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures" -- Nick Pyeson

51. "Howl's Moving Castle" -- Diana Wynne Jones

52. "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" -- Shirley Jackson

53. "Sarah, Plain and Tall" and "Skylark" -- Patricia MacLachlan

54. "The Haunting of Hill House" -- Shirley Jackson

55. "All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings" -- Gayle Boss (illustrated by David G. Klein)

#books read 2023 #reading #books #long post #personal

[deathcupcake]

2023 Books Read

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun/Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun, Vol. 1

Arthur Miller | The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

R.F. Kuang | Babel

Leigh Bardugo | Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo | Crooked Kingdom

Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun/Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun, Vol. 2

Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron Widow

Rosamund Hodge | Bright Smoke, Cold Fire

Yoon Ha Lee | Ninefox Gambit

Ann Leckie | Translation State

N.K. Jemisin | The City We Became

Kristyn Merbeth | Fortuna

Glynis Peters | The Secret Orphan

Jackie Keswick | Caught

Leslie Marmon Silko | Ceremony

Amélie Wen Zhao | Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

Peter Stark | Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou | Remnants of Filth/Yuwu, Vol. 1

Christina Thompson | Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story

Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness

Emily St. John Mandel | Station Eleven

Kristen Painter | The Trouble With Witches

Joan He | Strike the Zither

Sharon Shinn | Whispering Wood

Hester Fox | The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

I enjoyed most of the books, although three were very meh/borderline a waste of time. Of the 25 books on this list, I believe that 21 were written by women and 4 by men. Six of the authors are Chinese or Chinese Americans. Some of the authors are favorites of mine (Jemisin, Leckie), but I'm looking forward to reading more by Joan He, Amélie Wen Zhao, and Xiran Jay Zhao - especially the continuations of the series.

#books read 2023 #there were at least 10 I didn't get to #so I may hit those in 2024 #but priorities are the series continuations mentioned above

[supercool-here]

Well, I've officially finished Narnia (the lion, the witch and the wardrobe).

#I'm #thankful #? #I mean it's not MY sort of favorite book but I enjoyed reading it very much #I just hate that they had to go back #Narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #books #books read #2023 #first book of 2023! #books read 2023

[fishminer]

I am Legend: Richard Matheson

Legends and Lattes: Travis Baldree

Iron Widow: Xiran Jay Zhao

Reborn as a Vending Machine I now Wander the Dungeon: Hirukuma

War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy

Ghost Rider Omnibus: Sebastian Girner, Felipe Smith

The Super Naturalists: Eoin Colfer

How To Do Nothing: Jenny Odell

Murder at the Vicarage: Agatha Christie

Body in the Library: Agatha Christie

The Moving Finger: Agatha Christie

Ironheart: Meant to Fly: Eve Ewing

#books read 2023 #Christie novels are addictive #Still proud of finishing war and peace

[nedlittle]

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

#the picture of dorian gray #lit #this is a pointless text post #guess what i read for the first time in the year of our lord 2023 #and yes this is a real review on storygraph that i took a screenshot of. you people are so stupid god bless #girl he literally censored it himself did your edition have 0 introduction or background at all #greatest (s)hits #book discourse

[snackerdoodle]

books I read in 2023

I had a huge reading year this year because of my gruelingly long commute. The list below the cut is mostly for my own edification, but I’m a nosy person who supports other nosy people, so if you want to know what I’ve been up to, have at it. Almost everything I read this year was from the library.

1/12 A Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones

1/18 The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, Sonora Reyes

1/24 The Life-Changing Magic of 

Tidying Up, Marie Kondo

1/25 Hotel Magnifique, Emily J. Taylor

1/30 Spark Joy, Marie Kondo 

2/2 The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune

2/8 The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik

2/8 Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, Ashley Herring Blake

2/15 The Nile, Toby Wilkinson

2/23 The Painted Queen, Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess

2/28 Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

3/5 Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters

3/12 Lord of the Silent, Elizabeth Peters

3/16 Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home, Marie Kondo 

3/20 Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin

3/20 The Art of Simple Living, Shunmyo Masuno

3/26 The Bird’s Nest, Shirley Jackson

4/11 Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson

4/12 A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

4/18 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4/21 Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, Tricia  Hersey

5/1 Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo

5/3 Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, Ashley Herring Blake

5/10 Fight Like Hell: The Untold Story of American Labor, Kim Kelly

5/11 Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, Joy Harjo 

5/12 Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge

5/15 The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson

5/18 The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne Jones

5/29 A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib

6/3 A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske

6/6 Ducks, Kate Beaton 

6/8 Wild and Wicked Things, Francesca May (awful. Every character was an idiot. Why did I finish this)

6/10 Breathing Lessons: A Doctor’s Guide to Lung Health, Meilan K. Han, MD

6/19 The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu

6/19 A Fortune for Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib (I liked this even more than the last one I read. Maybe because it was an audiobook read by the author.)

6/22 Disjointed, Diana Jovin (ed) (skipped parts that were totally unrelated to me and some things that were also too technical)

6/22 The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson

6/26 Enquête au collège, Jean-Phillipe Arrou-Vignod 

6/28 The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner

7/3 Last Call, Elon Green

7/12 Cache Cache Petit Fantôme

7/13 Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-

Exupéry

7/13 La fille qui navigua autour de féérie dans un bateau construit de ses propres mains, Catherynne M Valente

7/14 Lost in the Moment and Found, Seanan McGuire

7/14 Ich mag dich gesund sagte der Bär, Janosch

7/25 The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch

7/31 The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty

8/10 A Restless Truth, Freya Marske 

8/16 Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle

9/6 The Body in the Garden, Katherine Schellman

9/11 Silence in the Library, Katherine Schellman

9/13 When Things Get Dark, various 

9/19 Death at the Manor, Katherine Schellman

9/25 Sorcery and Cecelia, Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

10/3 The Grand Tour, Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer 

10/6 Murder at Midnight, Katharine Schellman

10/12 The Mislaid Magician, Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

10/18 Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, Elizabeth Winkler

10/18 Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, JK Rowling

10/25 Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA search for Mind Control, Stephen Kinzer

11/1 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date, Ashley Herring Blake

11/3 Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Shaw

11/9 Unfuck Your Habitat, Rachel Hoffman

11/11 Safe and Sound, Mercury Stardust 

11/12 Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD (revised and updated), Susan C. Pinskey

11/18 Red Seas under Red Skies, Scott Lynch

11/20 In With the Old: Classic Decor A to Z,  Jennifer Boles 

11/23 Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, Lauren Liess

11/24 Vermeer: The Complete Paintings, Norbert Schneider 

11/29 The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth L. Cline

12/4 Leech, Hiron Ennes

12/6 The Star that Always Stays, Anna Rose Johnson 

P12/14 The Republic of Thieves, Scott Lynch

12/15 An American Sunrise, Joy Harjo

12/20 The Wife Upstairs, Rachel Hawkins

12/22 How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis

12/30 The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Margareta Magnusson 

Gave up on: The Woman Who Would Be King, Kara Cooney (too speculative/fictionalized)

A Scatter of Light, Malinda Lo (nothing really wrong, it just wasn’t holding my attention at all)

14 histoires pour avoir peur mais pas trop quand même (turned into full cast audio and the music between stories was really annoying)

Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin (not in the right headspace maybe, maybe just not for me)

American Cozy, Stephanie Pedersen (got annoyed at how much of the information hinged on living in a huge suburban home with 18 closets and a husband and multiple children you can make do your chores for you)

The Curated Closet, Anuschka Rees (not bad just not what I was looking for)

#Snackerdoodle actually makes a post #Books read 2023

[octopodhotrod]

Books Read 2023:

Clean Air - Sarah Blake

The Bees - Laline Paull

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire (reread)

Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire (reread)

A Lion Among Men - Gregory Maguire

Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire

The Pod - Laline Paull

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Axiom's End - Lindsay Ellis (reread)

Truth of the Divine - Lindsay Ellis

The Far Reaches Collection - James S.A. Corey, Veronica Roth, Rebecca Roanhorse, Ann Leckie, Nnedi Okarafor, John Scalzi

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Lisa See

Feed Them Silence - Lee Mandelo

Crewel - Gennifer Albin

Altered - Gennifer Albin

Set my reading goal for 10 books again this year and made it to 15 🎉 I think that's where I'm gonna set my goal for next year because I've managed to hit my goal of 10 the last 2 years in a row.

Not listed are the 15-20 books I started but didn't finish lol

#cliff notes #books read 2023

[satashiiwrites]

Midnight bookstore shopping spree.

#books read 2023 #naomi alderman #David grann #rupert holmes #rebecca yarros

[supermarketcrush]

what's a book you read as a teenager that was so magical and personally profound to you it literally changed your life, doesnt matter if the book was actually well written or not. mine's probably the catcher in the rye

#looking for books to add to my 2023 to read list mutuals plssss rb #rb game #by phoenix

[smashing-yng-man]

#stephen king #twitter #reading #literature #banned books #2023 #library #libraries #books #novels #politics #us politics

[studywithjennifer]

whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england

#dracula #dracula daily #count dracula #mina harker #jonathan harker #my good friend jonathan harker #literature #books #reading #bookblr #dark academia #academia #academia aesthetic #history #whitby #whitby abbey #my posts #york trip 2023

[myjetpack]

My Reading Year.

(My last @guardian Books cartoon for 2023)

#books #reading #books of 2023 #2023 #year in review #infographic

[floweroflaurelin]

Huevember day 4: The Penitent

—

O corse of the Locked Tomb, I have loved thee all my life, with mine whole soul, and with mine whole strength. I would to God that I find grace in thy eyes. Destroy me according to thy word, for I love thee. ✨⚔️💀⚔️✨

#huevember #huevember 2023 #the locked tomb #the locked tomb fanart #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #alecto the ninth #nona the ninth #gideon the ninth #tlt fanart #tlt #tlt harrow #tlt alecto #floweroflaurelin art #giving Harrow the biggest wettest eyes #I’m just glad I finally finished a locked tomb painting!! more to come this month (probably) #I haven’t read anything new since these books I just keep rereading them instead #I understand this is a common problem lol

[madmonkeysandrum-blog]

“Death and Croissants” Ian Moore

Someone tweeted “Just finished this, not laughed out load at a book so much for years” so I had to read it and… I didn’t chuckle ones. I was bored. They also tweeted, “…who killed Ava Gardner” which was one of the MC’s chickens that died and the author replied, “Here’s a clue Margaret, it was an ‘assassination’.” Maybe I was too bored to pay attention but I missed it too.

There’s a few big mistakes here for me, the MC is never in danger and there’s no reason to investigate a missing person/possible murder. Even if it starts because it’s fun and thrilling there has to be a moment when the MC has a bigger reason than that, and if they are never in any danger… why should I care?

I like the cover and the title, it looks right fore the genre but neither croissants or the dead chickens are really part of the story. There’s one croissant mentioned. The cover makes me think that a sweet plump recently widowed woman uses her last money to open an B&B in France, she really should take better care of herself so just as she’s about to eat her morning croissant she tosses it to the chickens, only to find them dead later. Is someone trying to kill her?!

Croissant was used because it's set in France I guess.

UPDATE: The book did have an effect on me, I want a croissant!

#reading books #books read 2023 #cozy mystery

[supercool-here]

Well, I've officially finished Narnia (the lion, the witch and the wardrobe).

#I'm #thankful #? #I mean it's not MY sort of favorite book but I enjoyed reading it very much #I just hate that they had to go back #Narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #books #books read #2023 #first book of 2023! #books read 2023