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?
*Sealskin, Su Bristow
Woolgathering, Patti Smith
The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, trans. Matty Weingast
Funny Girl, Nick Hornby
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May
March, Geraldine Brooks
*The Library Book, Susan Orlean
Upstream, Mary Oliver
*Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
*The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
*Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
*This Must Be the Place, Maggie O’Farrell
Becoming a Life Coach, Tom Chiarella
Flights of Fancy: Creative Inspiration from 10 Award Winning Authors and Illustrators, Multiple Authors
American Dirt, Jeanine Cummings
Loving What Is, Byron Katie
The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd
Horse, Geraldine Brooks
Assertive Discipline for Parents, Lee Canter with Marlene Carter
Welcome to the Writer’s Life, Paula Perhach
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton
*Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell
*Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies, Elizabeth Winkler
*The Dharma of Poetry, John Brehm
*Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jeannette McCurdy
*Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Refuse to Be Done, Matt Bell
Parenting in the Screen Age, Delaney Ruston MD
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
*The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve loved), Kate Bowler
Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jouad
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
What is Poetry? The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems, Michael Rosen
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Language and Myth, Ernst Cassirer
*Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead
The Winners, Fredrik Backman
Hagitude, Sharon Blackie
*The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
Photo by Laura Kapfer