Book List 2023

Finally, friends, this is what I read last year. The podcast going into more depth about my favorites and the trends in my reading life will be up soon.

The books are organized chronologically, from 1/23 to 12/23. I have put stars next to my five-star favorites. Just because you may be curious, I am currently reading The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. What are you reading?

1. *Sealskin, Su Bristow

2. Woolgathering, Patti Smith

3. The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, trans. Matty Weingast

4. Funny Girl, Nick Hornby

5. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May

6. March, Geraldine Brooks

7. *The Library Book, Susan Orlean

8. Upstream, Mary Oliver

9. *Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

10. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil DeGrasse Tyson

11. *The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

12. *Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

13. *This Must Be the Place, Maggie O’Farrell

14. Becoming a Life Coach, Tom Chiarella

15. Flights of Fancy: Creative Inspiration from 10 Award Winning Authors and Illustrators, Multiple Authors

16. American Dirt, Jeanine Cummings

17. Loving What Is, Byron Katie

18. The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd

19. Horse, Geraldine Brooks

20. Assertive Discipline for Parents, Lee Canter with Marlene Carter

21. Welcome to the Writer’s Life, Paula Perhach

22. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton

23. *Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman

24. The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell

25. *Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

26. Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies, Elizabeth Winkler

27. *The Dharma of Poetry, John Brehm

28. *Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

29. I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jeannette McCurdy

30. *Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

31. Refuse to Be Done, Matt Bell

32. Parenting in the Screen Age, Delaney Ruston MD

33. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

34. *The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

35. Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve loved), Kate Bowler

36. Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jouad

37. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

38. What is Poetry? The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems, Michael Rosen

39. Wild, Cheryl Strayed

40. Language and Myth, Ernst Cassirer

41. *Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead

42. The Winners, Fredrik Backman

43. Hagitude, Sharon Blackie

44. *The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett

45. Stardust, Neil Gaiman

    

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