Another year when my reading totals were down, especially during the summer months when some challenging elder-care out of town meant that I got almost no reading done. That resolved itself satisfactorily and recently my reading has picked up again. As is my habit, I’ve posted short reviews on each of these books I read on LibraryThing.
Writers who impressed me this year include Helen DeWitt, Percival Everett, Claire North, Elif Batuman, Rivka Gelchen, Carys Davies, George Saunders, and Suzette Mayr.
Stats from my 2023 reading list:
- 23 were borrowed from the public library
- 2 have Canadian authors
- 9 were chosen due to personal recommendations from friends
- 1 was being reread
- 13 are ebooks
Books read in 2023 (44):
- Perrin, Valérie. Fresh Water for Flowers
- Mayr, Suzette. The Sleeping Car Porter
- Chou, Elaine Hsieh. Disorientation
- Everett, Percival. Dr. No: a novel
- Foley, Lucy. The Paris Apartment: a novel
- Garmus, Bonnie. Lessons in Chemistry: a novel
- Sanders, George. Liberation Day: stories
- Murakami, Haruki. Novelist as a Vocation
- Winman, Sarah. Still Life: a novel
- Everett, Percival. The Trees: a novel
- Henry, Emily. Beach Read
- Powers, Richard. Bewilderment: a novel
- Powers, Richard. Orfeo: a novel
- Wilson, Kevin. Now Is Not The Time To Panic: a novel
- Everett, Percival. Telephone: a novel
- Ellis, Warren. Nina Simone’s Gum
- Tevis, Walter. The Queen’s Gambit
- Strout, Elizabeth. The Burgess Boys: a novel
- Ayoade, Richard. The Book That No One Wanted To Read
- Strout, Elizabeth. Amy and Isabelle: a novel
- Smith, Ali. Companion Piece: a novel
- Davies, Carys. West: a novel
- Marche, Stephen. On writing and failure, or, on the peculiar perseverance required to endure the life of a writer
- Galchen, Rivka. Everyone Know Your Mother Is A Witch
- Davies, Carys. The Mission House: a novel
- Porter, Max. Shy: a novel
- Link, Kelly. White Cat, Black Dog: stories
- Hay, Elizabeth. Snow Road Station: a novel
- Friedman, Elyse. The Answer to Everything: a novel
- Batuman, Elif. The Idiot
- Godden, Salena. Mrs Death Misses Death
- Ayoade, Richard. Ayoade on Top
- Tomine, Adrian. Shortcomings
- Everett, Percival. I Am Not Sidney Poitier: a novel
- Wells, Martha. Witch King
- North, Claire. House of Odysseus
- Ayoade, Richard. Richard Ayoade Presents: The Grip of Film by Gordy LaSure
- Aoyama, Michiko. What you are looking for is in the library: a novel
- Henry, Emily. Happy Place
- Wells, Martha. System Collapse
- Driver, Minnie. Managing Expectations: a memoir in essays
- Rovelli, Carlo. White Holes
- Everett, Percival. Assumption
- DeWitt, Helen. The Last Samurai