2023 Books

As I get older, it's helpful for me to keep track of the books I've read.  I have yet to pick up a book and not remembered reading it, but better safe than sorry!

So here are all of the books I read this year:

Spare

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

Kiss Her Once For Me

The Sleeping Car Porter

Something in the Water

The Four Winds

The Prisoner

The Poisonwood Bible (a reread for me, I've read this many times before)

Sea of Tranquility

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

The Light Through the Leaves

The Rent Collector

Nothing to Envy

Our Italian Summer

Demon Copperhead

The Beguiling

Sparks Like Stars

When We Lost Our Heads

Malibu Rising

The Survivors

Between Us

The Guilt Trip

The Gown

At the Mountain's Edge

Miracle Creek 

I'm limiting my favourite list to two, since there are a few contenders for #3 and I can't choose, but you can go back through the links above to see if I liked a book or not.

#2

The Gown by Jennifer Robson

#1 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

For the past couple of years I've been in the habit of setting out a reading list for myself.  However, this year I'm not going to do that.  I felt like I was looking for books just for the sake of putting them on my list, and then I didn't even like some of the ones I picked (ahem, Sleeping Car Porter, When we Lost our Heads, and The Beguiling). Instead I'll just stick with picking things off my running list of recommendations based on what's available in our library and what I feel like reading.