Since this is the only thing I usually post all year other than some birthday greetings, I figured I should go ahead. This is the list of books I read or much more often listened to in 2023:
1. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
2. Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh
3. Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb
4. The Guests on South Battery by Karen White
5. Babel by R. F. Kuang
6. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
7. The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
8. Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
9. Raven’s Shadow by Patricia Briggs
10. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
11. Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
12. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
13. I Am These Truths by Sunny Hostin
14. The Survivors by Jane Harper
15. The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
16. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
17. Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
18. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
19. A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
20. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
21. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
22. The King Must Die by Mary Renault [print]
23. An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
24. The Stolen Hours by Allen Eskens
25. Americanon: An Unexpected US History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
26. Exodus by Leon Uris
27. The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
28. The Levee by William Kent Krueger
29. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
30. Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews [print]
31. Wild Wood by Posie Graeme-Evans
32. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
33. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
34. To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
35. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
36. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
37. Raven’s Strike by Patricia Briggs
38. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
39. Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
40. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester [print]
41. Trust by Hernan Diaz
42. The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger
43. Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan
44. The Café by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
45. It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
46. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
47. Meat Cute: The Hedgehog Incident by Gail Carriger
48. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
49. The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street by Karen White
50. Camilla by Frances Burney
51. Sinister Graves by Marcie Rendon
52. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
53. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
54. The Book Haters’ Book Club by Gretchen Anthony
55. Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
56. The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White
57. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
58. Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
59. Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton
60. On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark
61. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
62. “F’ is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton
63. The Shop on Royal Street by Karen White
64. The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff
65. He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
66. Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews
67. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by MC Beaton
68. The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England by MM Kaye [print]
69. Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi
70. Waypoints by Sam Heughan
71. The Unicorn Hunt by Dorothy Dunnett
72. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
73. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
74. Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews [print]
75. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
76. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
77. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
78. The Power by Naomi Alderman
79. Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters
80. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A Heinlein
81. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
82. Swan for the Monday by Donna Andrews
83. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
84. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
85. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
86. Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower
87. A Contemporary Asshat at the Court of Henry VIII
88. The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
89. The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman
90. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
91. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
92. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
93. Recursion by Blake Crouch
94. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
95. Happy Place by Emily Henry
96. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
97. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
98. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
99. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
100. Wade in the Water by Nyani Nkrumah
101. The Seven Wonders by Steve Saylor
102. A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
103. Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie
104. Witch King by Martha Wells
105. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
106. How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
107. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
108. Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile
109. The Autobiography of Henry VII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George [print]
110. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
111. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
112. A Love Catastrophe by Helena Hunting
113. Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester
114. Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews [print]
115. Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
116. Shakespeare’s Landlord by Charlaine Harris
117. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
118. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Muders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
119. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
120. Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens
121. The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
122. Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James
123. Abandon by Blake Crouch
124. A Taint in the Blood by Dana Stabenow [print]
125. Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
126. Cotillion by Georgette Heyer [abridged audio, so maybe I would have liked unabridged more?]
127. Hudson Bay Bound by Natalie Warren
128. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
129. Dance of Death by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
130. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
131. Death of an American Beauty by Mariah Fredericks
132. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
133. Greenwood by Michael Christie
134. Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
135. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
136. The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
137. Aunt Dimity and the Duke by Nancy Atherton
138. Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
139. The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith
140. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
141. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
142. The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
143. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
144. The Poisoner’s Ring by Kelley Armstrong
145. The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
146. Confidence by Rafael Frumkin
147. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
148. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
149. The Measure by Nikki Erlick
150. The Guest by Emma Cline
151. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
152. All the Dead Shall Weep by Charlaine Harris
153. Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg. [print]
154. Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
155. Hornblower and the Hotspur by CS Forester
156. The Barrens by Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson
157. The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
158. Literary Starbucks: Fresh-Brewed, Half-Caf, No-Whip Bookish Humor
by Nora Anderson Katz, Wilson Isaac Josephson, Jill Madeline Poskanzer, Harry Bliss (Illustrations) [print]
159. Death Without Company by Craig Johnson
160. Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
161. Upgrade by Blake Crouch
162. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
163. The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike
164. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
165. The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers
166. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers
167. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
168. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
169. The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
170. Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
171. The Institute by Stephen King [print]
172. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
173. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
174. Hornblower and the Crisis by C.S. Forester
175. The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
176. The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
177. Who Cries for the Lost by C. S. Harris
178. King’s Mountain by Sharyn McCrumb
179. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto
180. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
181. The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
182. Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
183. The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
184. The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
185. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
186. North Woods by Daniel Mason
187. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado
188. Eighth Grave After Dark by Darynda Jones
189. Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
190. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
191. Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews
192. Magic Claims by Ilona Andrews
193. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
194. Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
195. Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
196. Hornblower and the Atropos by C.S. Forester
197. Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
198. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
199. A Deeper Sleep by Dana Stabenow
200. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
201. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
202. In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune
203. Trade Wind by M. M. Kaye [print]
204. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
205. Class by Stephanie Land
206. The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
207. Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
208. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam M. Grant
209. Good Boy:My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan
210. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
211. The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake
212. The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
213. Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich
214. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
215. Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal [print]
216. If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos
217. Everything is Not Enough by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
218. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
219. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow
220. System Collapse: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
221. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
222. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
223. Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire [print]
224. Candles and Starlight by Seanan McGuire [print]
225. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
226. The Surgeon’s Daughter by Audrey Blake