2023 Reading List

 Here it is, my reading list from 2023. As usual, I'll first give that basic stats, then I will list each book. If I think it was exceptionally good, I'll put a "*" next to it. I'm picky about my five star ratings, so those will be a small fraction of the total titles read. (There are a lot of mysteries on the list and many of them are very good, but unless a mystery is something exceptional, it doesn't rate an asterisk in my personal rating system.) And to remind you what my abbreviations mean:

F - fiction
NF - non-fiction
M - mystery
RA - read aloud
YA - young adult or a book aimed at a juvenile audience

The totals for the year:

80 books read (which is an average of 6.5 books per month)
    29 - non-fiction
    21 - fiction
    29 - mystery

13 books not finished
11 book read aloud
24,635 pages read in total
2370 pages read aloud

The list:

  1. Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop - Rebecca Raisin (F)(260 p.)
  2. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool (NF)(259 p.)
  3. The Ponies at the Edge of the World: A story of hope and belonging in Shetland - Catherine Munro (NF)(265 p.)
  4. One of our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde (F)(RA)(359 p.)
  5. Braving the Wilderness: The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone - Brené Brown (NF)(163 p.)
  6. The City & The City - China Miéville (M)(312 p.) *
  7. A World of Curiosities - Louise Penny (M)(384 p.)
  8. Mischief in Fez - Eleanor Hoffman (F)(YA)(90 p.)
  9. The Ravenmaster: My life with ravens at the Tower of London - Christopher Skraife (NF)(229 p.)
  10. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir  (F)(478 p.)*
  11. A Curious Faith - Lore Ferguson Wilbert (NF)(184 p.)
  12. The Telomere Effect - Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel (NF)(325 p.)*
  13. Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doer (F)(622 p.)*
  14. Version Control - Dexler Palmer (F)(495 p.)
  15. The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (F)(398 p.)
  16. Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby van Pelt (F)(355 p.)
  17. Raven Black - Ann Cleeves (M)(376 p.)
  18. The Golden Spoon - Jess Maxwell (M)(272 p.)
  19. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis (F)(YA)(578 p.)*
  20. A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine (F)(459 p.)
  21. Names for the Sea and Strangers in Iceland - Sarah Moss (NF)(356 p.)
  22. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool - Clara Parkes (NF)(179 p.)*
  23. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson (F)(529 p.)
  24. Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope - Johann Hari (NF)(319 p.)*
  25. A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine (F)(480 p.)
  26. Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Anxiety - Henny A . Westra (NF)(246 p.)
  27. Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History - Bill Laws (NF)(RA)(217 p.)
  28. The Woman Who Died A Lot - Jasper Fforde (F)(RA)(363 p.)
  29. Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees (F)(264 p.)
  30. The Sea Detective - Mark Douglas (M)(280 p.)
  31. The Horse Knows - Lynn Mann (F)(358 p.)
  32. The Appeal - Janice Hallett (M)(445 p.)
  33. Matchmaking for Beginners - Maddie Dawson (F)(381 p.)
  34. Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership - Mark Rashid (NF)(221 p.)
  35. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating - Elisabeth Tova Bradley (NF)(178 p.)
  36. Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other lies Behind Multi-Level Marketing - Emily Lynn Paulson (NF)(323 p.)
  37. The Twyford Code - Janice Hallett (M)(388 p.)
  38. Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to get unstuck when it matters most - Adam Alter (NF)(234 p.)
  39. Looking for Marco Polo - Alan Armstrong (F)(YA)(RA)(238 p.)
  40. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform us - Susan Magsaman and Ivy Ross (NF)(250 p.)
  41. Dissolution - CJ Sansom (M)(429 p.)
  42. A Shot in the Dark - Lynne Truss (M)(290 p.)
  43. The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion - Richard Strozzi-Heckler (NF)(180 p.)
  44. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation - Jon Ward (NF)(242 p.)
  45. The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies - Alison Goodman (M)(445 p.)
  46. The Man that Got Away - Lynne Truss (M)(281 p.)
  47. Footsteps in the Dark - Georgette Heyer (M)(443 p.)
  48. Murder by Milk Bottle - Lynne Truss (M)(302 p.)
  49. Storm - George R. Steward (F)(RA)(349 p.)
  50. Psycho by the Sea - Lynne Truss (M)(301 p.)
  51. The Clairvoyant Countess - Dorothy Gilman (M)(224 p.)
  52. Borrower of the Night - Elizabeth Peters (M)(262 p.)
  53. Kaleidoscope - Dorothy Gilman (M)(244 p.)
  54. Street of the Five Moons - Elizabeth Peters (M)(243 p.)
  55. Dead Ernest - Phoebe Atwood Taylor (M)(RA)(218 p.)
  56. The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill (M)(250 p.)
  57. Silhouette in Scarlet - Elizabeth Peters (M)(243 p.)
  58. Unraveling: What I learned about life while sheering sheep, dyeing wool, and making the world's ugliest sweater - Peggy Orenstein (NF)(178 p.)
  59. The Anatomy of Change: East/West approaches to body/mind therapy - Richard Strozzi-Heckler (NF)(138 p.0
  60. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School - Kathleen Flinn (NF)(278 p.)
  61. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains - Bethany Brookshire (NF)(290 p.)
  62. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture - Ross King (NF)(RA)(167 p.)
  63. The Knitter's Book of Wool: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Using, and Loving this most Fabulous Fiber - Clara Parkes (NF)(192 p.)
  64. Trojan Gold - Elizabeth Peters (M)(357 p.)
  65. Night Train to Memphis - Elizabeth Peters (M)(347 p.)
  66. The Laughter of Dead Kings - Elizabeth Peters (M)(364 p.)
  67. The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman (M)(361 p.)
  68. Secrets in the House of Delgado - Gloria D. Miklowitz (F)(RA)(YA)(182 p.)
  69. The Weaver and the Witch Queen - Genevieve Gornichec (F)(414 p.)*
  70. Worn: A People's History of Clothing - Sofi Thanhauser (NF)(300 p.)*
  71. Holy Disorders - Edmund Crispin (M)(261 p.)
  72. Bad Day at the Vulture Club - Vaseem Khan (M)(373 p.)
  73. The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman (M)(471 p.)
  74. The Road to Roswell - Connie Willis (M)(399 p.)*
  75. The Second Mrs. Giaconda - E. L. Konigsburg (F)(YA)(RA)(138 p.)
  76. The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough - Thomas Curran (NF)(238 p.)
  77. Dark Fire - C. J. Sansom (M)(501 p.)
  78. The Mummies of Ürümchi - Elizabeth Wayland Barber (NF)(214 p.)
  79. 1066: The Year of the Conquest - David Howarth (NF)(RA)(201 p.)
  80. How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions: A Theory of Horses, Humans, and Psychotherapy - Noreen W. Esposito and Angela K. Fournier (NF)(183 p.)

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