2023: Year in Review

A successful year with forty-one books read! A number of ones that I enjoyed. In my mini-foray into nonfiction environmental books, there were the excellent Desert Solitaire and On Trails. I finished Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet. I liked experimental books, from Woolf's classic Orlando to the faux-biography Biography of X. Some strong showings in both fiction (Either/Or, Erasure, Small Things Like These) and nonfiction (How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement, Monsters).

I received a Kindle for Christmas, so we'll see if that has any effect on my reading habits.

1. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
2. The Two Doctors Gorski by Issac Fellman
3. The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
4. Verity by Colleen Hoover
5. Either/Or by Elif Batuman
6. Sourdough by Robin Sloan
7. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
8. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
9. Brutes by Dizz Tate
10. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
11. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
12. Wild Thoughts from Wild Places by David Quammen
13. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
14. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
15. Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
16. On Trails by Robert Moor
17. The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
18. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
19. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
20. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
21. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
22. Half-Life of a Stolen Sister by Rachel Cantor
23. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
24. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
25. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
26. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
27. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
28. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
29. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
30. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
31. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Ovinkan Braithwaite
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
33. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
34. Pet by Catherine Chidgey
35. How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer
36. Erasure by Percival Everett
37. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
38. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
39. The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman
40. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
41. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

A few stats: twenty-three books by female authors; eighteen by male. Thirty-two fiction and nine nonfiction. Eight books published before 2000; nine books published in 2023.