50 Books in 2023!

[Linea_Norway]

1: Starsight, by Brandon Sanderson
2: Bjørnstad, by Fredrik Backman.
3: Vi mot dere (We against you) by Fredrik Backman.
4: The evening and the morning, by Ken Follett.
5: The Pillars of the Earth part 1, by Ken Follett.
6: Whithout by Ken Follett.
7: Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared Hosein.
8: The pillars of the Earth part 2, by Ken Follett.
9: Din økologiske kjøkkenhage (Your organic kitchen garden), by Birgit Rothmann.
10: Olive, again, by Elisabeth Strout.
11: Dyrking i drivhus (Growing food in a greenhouse), by Eva Robild.
12: The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, by Anna McPartlin.
13: Novaja Semlja effekten (The Novaja Semlja effect), by Odd Harald Hauge.
14: Spiselig hage 2 (Edible garden 2), by Dennis Asbjørnsen.
15: Søvn, ei kulturhistorie (Sleep, a cultural history), by Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen.
16. Oh, William, by Elizabeth Strout.
17: Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout.
18: Spis mer grønt (Eat more greens), by Jørgen Ravneberg. A foraging cookbook.
19: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
20: Matauk med pallekarm (Growing food in a raised bed), by Maria Berg Hestad.
21: En dyster klimabom du ikke orker å lese, (A depressing climate book you don't want to read, by H.A. Fjeld, J.M. Følstad and J.M. Fusdahl.
22: Atlas, the Story of Pa Salt, by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker.
23. Dyrk Enkelt i drivhus (Grow food easily, in a greenhouse), by Maria Berg Hestad.
24: Det åttende livet (til Brilka) (The eighth life (to Brilka)), by Nino Haratischwili.
25: Nei og atter nei (No, and again no), by Nina Lykke.
26: The Edge of the World, by Michael Pye.
27: Min historie (My Story), by Petter Northug/written by Jonas Forsang.
28: The Midnight Rose, by Lucinda Riley
29: Sekten by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
30: Svampar & Svampgifter, by Folke, Hirell, Hultén and Myrnäs. A study book about poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisons, in Swedish.
31: Mentalisten (The Mentalist), by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus

32: Skriften i vannet (The writing in the water), by John Ajvide Lindqvist
33: Kroppen for voksne (The body, for adults), by Trond-Viggo Torgersen.

[Serendip]

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55) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
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recently finished/reading
57) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman: re-read, I enjoy this one

Also loved Four Thousand Weeks!

What'd you think of the Mate? Listening to him on some podcasts, I've been torn between whether he's brilliant or if he's fallen to just selling pop psychology bullshit that makes readers feel special.

@Log He is a total character but I like him and he does important work.
1/3 of the way into the book I wasn't feeling it, actually just felt sad reading it, but then as I kept reading and the layers kept building I ended up feeling quite impacted by it.  As a book about trauma it is accessible.

Another book (if you aren't big on Mate) would be The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk (and not for everyone b/c the vivid descriptions of events in it could be triggering, it's written more for practitioners who work with people w/ a history of trauma rather than being written for the person who has experienced trauma)

[Log]

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55) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
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recently finished/reading
57) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman: re-read, I enjoy this one

Also loved Four Thousand Weeks!

What'd you think of the Mate? Listening to him on some podcasts, I've been torn between whether he's brilliant or if he's fallen to just selling pop psychology bullshit that makes readers feel special.

@Log He is a total character but I like him and he does important work.
1/3 of the way into the book I wasn't feeling it, actually just felt sad reading it, but then as I kept reading and the layers kept building I ended up feeling quite impacted by it.  As a book about trauma it is accessible.

Another book (if you aren't big on Mate) would be The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk (and not for everyone b/c the vivid descriptions of events in it could be triggering, it's written more for practitioners who work with people w/ a history of trauma rather than being written for the person who has experienced trauma)

I definitely agree with the public policy implications of these kinds of books, that taking childhood trauma more seriously as a public health crisis would have huge benefits for the flourishing of society as a whole. I just worry that too many people reading these books in a social context of individualism take away the "my 'trauma' makes me special" message that just reinforces narcissism and rugged individualism. And in a society of narcissism, that message sells better, so there's no shortage of opportunists writing pop-psychology nonsense to fill that demand.

I suppose I shouldn't let my distaste for the opportunists cashing in on trauma-narcissism to color my opinion of those who are doing serious and valuable work.

[YellowCat]

1. Dreaming Spies, Laurie R. King
2. The Murder of Mary Russell, Laurie R. King
3. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
4. A Taste of Gold and Iron, Alexandra Rowland
5. While We Were Dating, Jasmine Guillory
6. A Restless Truth, Freya Marske
7. The Book of Gothel, Mary McMyne
8. Royal Holiday, Jasmine Guillory
9. A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting, Sophie Irwin
10. Island of the Mad, Laurie R. King
11. Riviera Gold, Laurie R. King
12. Party of Two, Jasmine Guillory
13. Hither Page, Cat Sebastian
14. Castle Shade, Laurie R. King
15. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
16. Bones Never Lie, Kathy Reichs
17. A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby; Vanessa Riley
18. Speaking in Bones, Kathy Reichs
19. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, Cat Sebastian
20. The Knitting Circle, Ann Hood
21. The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
22. Time Squared, Lesley Krueger
23. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
24. Notorious, Minerva Spencer
25. The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish
26. The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes, Cat Sebastian
28. The Scottish Prisoner, Diana Gabaldon
29. Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
30. Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile
31. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
32. The Rose Code, Kate Quinn
33. The Other Merlin, Robyn Schneider
34. The Future King, Robyn Schneider
35. A Lady for a Duke, Alexis Hall
36. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
37. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
38. Just one Damned Thing After Another, Jodi Taylor
39. A Symphony of Echoes, Jodi Taylor
40. Because of Miss Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
41. Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles
42. The Sugared Game, KJ Charles
43. A Sinister Revenge, Deanna Raybourn
44. Into the West, Mercedes Lackey
45. Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
46. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
47. Something Fabulous, Alexis Hall

[sui generis]

1.  A Particular Kind of Black Man, by Tope Folarin (Jan 3) (audio).

2.  Ill Will, by Dan Chaon (Jan 13).

3.  Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Jan 27).

4.  Foster, by Claire Keegan (Jan 28).

5.  We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman (Feb 2).

6.  Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Feb 8) (audio).

7.  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder, by Paul G. Hensler with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Feb 13).

8.  Things I Have Withheld, by Kei Miller (Feb 15).

9.  The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki (Feb 18) (audio).

10.  Girlhood, by Melissa Febos (Feb 22) (audio).

11.  Dinosaurs, by Lydia Millet (Feb 23). 

12.  Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie (Mar 4) (audio).

13.  The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (Mar 6).

14.  The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Mar 20) (audio).

15.  The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent—and Reinvent—Our Identities, by Gregory Berns (Mar 22).

16.  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Mar 31) (audio).

17.  Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Apr 9).

18.  Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright (Apr 25) (audio).

19.  Ithaca, by Claire North (Apr 25).

20.  Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager (May 3).

21.  The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (May 7).

22.  Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (May 15) (audio).

23.  Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (May 18).

24.  Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie (May 23) (audio).

25.  The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, by Stephanie Oakes (May 24).

26.  The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Jun 12) (audio).

27.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini (Jun 23).

28.  Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus (Jun 25) (audio). 

29.  The Book of Dreams, by Nina George (Jul 6).

30.  Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Jul 18).

31.  Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto (Jul 30) (audio).

32.  The Heart's Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Aug 2).

33.  The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug 21) (audio).

34.  Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (Sep 2).

35.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sep 4) (audio).

36.  The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (Sep 5).

37.  Mouth to Mouth, by Antoine Wilson (Sep 6).

38.  Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail, by Andrea Lankford (Sep 20) (audio).

39.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Sep 25).

40.  The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin (Oct 5).

41.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by Alice Munro (Oct 9).

42.  The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two, by Sara Baring (Oct 12) (audio).

43.  The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff (Oct 15) (audio).

44.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen (Oct 15).

45.  The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, by Philip Pullman (Oct 16) (audio). Although Pullman always seemed right up my alley, never could get into His Dark Materials, after trying twice.  This was a fun and quick alternate universe (or is it??) story.   

46.  Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber (Oct 22). Old-timey thriller. As a local, really enjoyed all the geography of San Francisco from pre-1906 earthquake to 1970s.

47.  I Didn't Do It, by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (Oct 23) (audio).  Pretty fun silly murder mystery romp.  Didn't love some of the readers on audio, though.

[Serendip]

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47) The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese *bookclub
48) Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman
49) 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
50) The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
51) Stones of Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
52) Built to Move: The 10 essential habits to help you move freely and live fully by Kelly & Juliet Starrett
53) Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens (audiobook)
54) Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
55) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
56) Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles by Beth Pickens (audiobook)
57) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
58) Outsider: An Old Man, A Mountain and a Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell
59) Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know by Alexandra Horowitz

recently finished/reading
60) Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Zazie Todd : I'm self-educating in regards to pooches

61) The Trip to Echo Springs: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing : I enjoy her work, it's always a unique angle. This is an older one which looks at six famous male writers and their alcoholism (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, etc)

62) 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin: just started but seems amazing..

I haven't really read any fiction lately, need to find a good story :)

[nessness]

43. Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara. This was a hard read but really powerful - I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Highly recommended.

44. All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby.

45. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. One of the best novels I've read in a long time - despite how long it is, I didn't want it to end.

[YellowCat]

1. Dreaming Spies, Laurie R. King
2. The Murder of Mary Russell, Laurie R. King
3. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
4. A Taste of Gold and Iron, Alexandra Rowland
5. While We Were Dating, Jasmine Guillory
6. A Restless Truth, Freya Marske
7. The Book of Gothel, Mary McMyne
8. Royal Holiday, Jasmine Guillory
9. A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting, Sophie Irwin
10. Island of the Mad, Laurie R. King
11. Riviera Gold, Laurie R. King
12. Party of Two, Jasmine Guillory
13. Hither Page, Cat Sebastian
14. Castle Shade, Laurie R. King
15. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
16. Bones Never Lie, Kathy Reichs
17. A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby; Vanessa Riley
18. Speaking in Bones, Kathy Reichs
19. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, Cat Sebastian
20. The Knitting Circle, Ann Hood
21. The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
22. Time Squared, Lesley Krueger
23. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
24. Notorious, Minerva Spencer
25. The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish
26. The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes, Cat Sebastian
28. The Scottish Prisoner, Diana Gabaldon
29. Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
30. Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile
31. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
32. The Rose Code, Kate Quinn
33. The Other Merlin, Robyn Schneider
34. The Future King, Robyn Schneider
35. A Lady for a Duke, Alexis Hall
36. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
37. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
38. Just one Damned Thing After Another, Jodi Taylor
39. A Symphony of Echoes, Jodi Taylor
40. Because of Miss Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
41. Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles
42. The Sugared Game, KJ Charles
43. A Sinister Revenge, Deanna Raybourn
44. Into the West, Mercedes Lackey
45. Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
46. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
47. Something Fabulous, Alexis Hall
48. Something Spectacular, Alexis Hall
49. Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall

[redhead84]

47. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
48. Begin Again by Emma Lord
49. The Women by Kristin Hannah
50. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

[Log]

1. So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport)
2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)
3. The Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins)

4. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, re-read)
5. The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
6. Happy City (Charles Montgomery)

7. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
8. How to Be Perfect (Michael Schur)

9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R Covey)
10. A Wizard of Eathsea (Ursula K Le Guin)
11. Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman)

12. Of Boys and Men (Richard Reeves)
13. The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K Le Guin)
14. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
15. Slouching Towards Utopia (J Bradford DeLong)
16. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
17. Golden Gates (Conor Dougherty)
18. Beautiful World, Where Are You (Sally Rooney)
19. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
20. Bewilderment (Richard Powers)

21. Autonorama (Peter Norton)
22. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Erving Goffman)
23. Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
24. Coventry (Rachel Cusk)
25. One Billion Americans (Matt Yglesias)
26. Travels With Charley (Steinbeck)
27. Wanting (Luke Burgis)
28. Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel)
29. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)
30. Paved Paradise (Henry Grabar)
31. We Need to Hang Out (Billy Baker)
32. Dostoevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears (László F. Földényi)
33. Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky)
34. The Shallows (Nicholas Carr)

35. Triumph of the City by Ed Glaeser
36. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
37. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
38. Performance Success by Don Greene
39. The Poppy War by RF Kuang
40. Trust by Pete Buttigieg

Freedom was fantastic.

The Glaeser book was good, but at this point it's hard for an urbanism book to really stand out from the crowd for me.

The Hegel book was also good, really amazing how much Singer could pack into such a short volume. After reading Foldenyi dunking on the Hegelian world-view last month, it was eye-opening to read a more thorough accounting of what exactly that world-view is from a more sympathetic perspective.

Performance Success is a niche book about performance anxiety and audition preparation - changed my life when I first read it, wasn't so impactful on re-read because I've since internalized its ideas so much and already synthesized them with so many other approaches to those issues.

Poppy War was mediocre, read like a bad YA novel at times. Had enough dramatic tension in the plot to pull me along to the end, but I will not be continuing the series.

Trust was not nearly as interesting of a volume on its subject matter as Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized (which Buttigieg does reference at one point in the book 👀). I was reading it more to see what it might reveal about Pete's thinking, but the book seemed more like future campaign material than a real thought-provoking investigation of the topic. It was just a very safe, bland book about things that the Democratic party consensus is already in favor of.

[sui generis]

1.  A Particular Kind of Black Man, by Tope Folarin (Jan 3) (audio).

2.  Ill Will, by Dan Chaon (Jan 13).

3.  Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Jan 27).

4.  Foster, by Claire Keegan (Jan 28).

5.  We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman (Feb 2).

6.  Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Feb 8) (audio).

7.  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder, by Paul G. Hensler with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Feb 13).

8.  Things I Have Withheld, by Kei Miller (Feb 15).

9.  The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki (Feb 18) (audio).

10.  Girlhood, by Melissa Febos (Feb 22) (audio).

11.  Dinosaurs, by Lydia Millet (Feb 23). 

12.  Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie (Mar 4) (audio).

13.  The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (Mar 6).

14.  The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Mar 20) (audio).

15.  The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent—and Reinvent—Our Identities, by Gregory Berns (Mar 22).

16.  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Mar 31) (audio).

17.  Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Apr 9).

18.  Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright (Apr 25) (audio).

19.  Ithaca, by Claire North (Apr 25).

20.  Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager (May 3).

21.  The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (May 7).

22.  Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (May 15) (audio).

23.  Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (May 18).

24.  Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie (May 23) (audio).

25.  The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, by Stephanie Oakes (May 24).

26.  The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Jun 12) (audio).

27.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini (Jun 23).

28.  Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus (Jun 25) (audio). 

29.  The Book of Dreams, by Nina George (Jul 6).

30.  Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Jul 18).

31.  Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto (Jul 30) (audio).

32.  The Heart's Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Aug 2).

33.  The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug 21) (audio).

34.  Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (Sep 2).

35.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sep 4) (audio).

36.  The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (Sep 5).

37.  Mouth to Mouth, by Antoine Wilson (Sep 6).

38.  Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail, by Andrea Lankford (Sep 20) (audio).

39.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Sep 25).

40.  The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin (Oct 5).

41.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by Alice Munro (Oct 9).

42.  The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two, by Sara Baring (Oct 12) (audio).

43.  The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff (Oct 15) (audio).

44.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen (Oct 15).

45.  The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, by Philip Pullman (Oct 16) (audio).   

46.  Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber (Oct 22).

47.  I Didn't Do It, by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (Oct 23) (audio).

48.  The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson (Oct 26) (audio).  I stumbled upon this in my New Yorker Fiction podcast feed.  It's really just a short story, but I've had it on my to-read list for so long, it's nice to move it to my completed list.  And it is really great - Jackson is a master.

49.  Lost Paradise, by Kathy Marks (Oct 29).  Informative and well-written but I could not recommend anyone actually read this book, since it's descriptions of the sexual abuse of every single young girl on the island (and you *really* don't want to hear how young) are traumatic and rage-inducing to read about.  Not just the actual abuse, but the ferocious defense of not only the abusers but the practice of this abuse ("men will be men") alternating with, hypocritically, the denial of it, by the majority of the few dozen inhabitants of the island.  Pitcairn may be an idyllic South Pacific island with a fascinating history of strong-willed mutineers at the height of the British Empire in most people's imaginations, but it's much more like Lord of the Flies, if Lord of the Flies was even worse than as written.  Save yourself the heartache and read a news article or two if you are interested in learning about this place.

50.  Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, by Suzanne Roberts (Oct 30) (audio). A good read and some well-taken commentary on women + nature, but mostly enjoyed reliving my own hike on the JMT through her story.

[PlanetDee]

40. The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

[gatortator]

32. The Newcomers by Helen Thorpe
33. A map to the Sun by Sloan Leong
34. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
35. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
36. Romantic comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
37. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
38. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
39. A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
40. Mortal Arts by Anna Lee Huber
41. The book of delights by Ross Gay

42. The Basque history of the world by Mark Kurlansky
43. Gaudy night by Dorothy l. Sayers
44. Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins.
45. Murderbot #1- all systems red by Martha Wells
46. A map of salt and stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

[Raenia]

	Title	Author	Source	Reason	Date Completed	Genre
1	The Sandman: The Wake	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/1/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Dr Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
2	Death: The High Cost of Living	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/7/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
3	Death: The Time of Your Life	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/7/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
4	Death and Venice	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/8/2022	Fiction - Fantasy
5	Beloved	Toni Morrison	Library	TBR List	1/13/2023	Fiction - Historical
6	Sandman: Overture	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/20/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
7	Palace Walk	Naguib Mahfouz	Library	TBR List	1/30/2023	Fiction - Historical
8	White Sand: Volume 1	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	Reread	2/5/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	My Name is Red	Orhan Pamuk	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
9	White Sand: Volume 2	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	Sequel	2/12/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
10	Deathless	Catherynne Valente	Library	TBR List	2/16/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
11	At Large and At Small	Anne Fadiman	Library	TBR List	2/22/2023	Nonfiction - Philosophy
12	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Library	TBR List	3/4/2023	General Fiction
13	White Sand: Volume 3	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	Sequel	3/4/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	London Fields	Martin Amis	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
DNF	The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolano	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
14	Tress of the Emerald Sea	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Other	3/17/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
15	Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes	William Bridges	Library	TBR List	4/4/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
16	The Two-Faced Queen	Nick Martell	Library	Sequel	4/6/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
17	The Glass Bead Game	Herman Hesse	Library	TBR List	4/16/2023	General Fiction
DNF	The Tin Drum	Gunter Glass	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
18	A Shadow In Summer	Daniel Abraham	Library	TBR List	4/18/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Austerlitz	W.G. Sebald	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
19	The Fifth Season	N.K. Jemisin	Own	TBR List	5/3/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
20	A Betrayal in Winter	Daniel Abraham	Library	Sequel	5/9/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
21	Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men	Caroline Criado Perez	Library	TBR List	5/13/2023	General Nonfiction
22	The Dark Talent	Brandon Sanderson	Library	Reread	5/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
23	Unfuck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess	Rachel Hoffman	Library	TBR List	5/20/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
24	Bastille vs the Evil Librarians	Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson	Library	Sequel	5/21/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
25	The Obelisk Gate	N.K. Jemisin	Own	Sequel	5/23/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
26	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Library	TBR List	6/1/2023	General Fiction
27	An Autumn War	Daniel Abraham	Library	Sequel	6/2/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Underworld	Don DeLillo	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
28	The Stone Sky	N.K. Jemisin	Own	Sequel	6/6/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
29	Furies of Calderon	Jim Butcher	Library	TBR List	6/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
30	The Couples' Pregnancy Guide: How to Navigate Pregnancy and Childbirth as a Team	D'Anthony and Rachel Ward	Own	Other	6/16/2023	General Nonfiction
DNF	Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
31	Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation	Anne Helen Petersen	Library	TBR List	6/20/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
32	The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother	Heng Ou	Own	Other	6/24/2023	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
33	The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Other	7/1/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
34	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark	Library	TBR List	7/2/2023	General Fiction
35	The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency	Anna Hess	Library	TBR List	7/6/2023	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
36	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	Library	TBR List	7/7/2023	General Fiction
37	Academ's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	7/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
38	Nausea	Jean-Paul Sartre	Library	TBR List	7/15/2023	General Fiction
39	Red Sister	Mark Lawrence	Library	TBR List	7/17/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
40	Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting from Birth to Preschool	Emily Oster	Library	TBR List	7/18/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
41	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms	N.K. Jemisin	Own	TBR List	7/22/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
42	The Price of Spring	Daniel Abraham	Library	Sequel	7/25/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Rabbit, Run	John Updike	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
43	Cursor's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	7/27/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
44	Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities - From the Very Start	Magda Gerber and Allison Johnson	Library	TBR List	7/28/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
45	Captain's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	7/30/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
46	The Masterharper of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/31/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
47	What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood	Alexandra Sacks and Catherine Birndorf	Library	TBR List	8/6/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
48	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	Library	TBR List	8/7/2023	General Fiction
49	Grey Sister	Mark Lawrence	Library	Sequel	8/12/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
50	Holy Sister	Mark Lawrence	Library	Sequel	8/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
51	The House of Mirth	Edith Wharton	Library	TBR List	8/16/2023	General Fiction
52	Princeps' Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	8/18/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
53	First Lord's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	8/20/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
54	Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality	Laura A Jana and Jennifer Shu	Library	TBR List	8/22/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
55	Kings of the Wyld	Nicholas Eames	Library	TBR List	8/29/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	The Warden	Anthony Trollope	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
56	Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter More than IQ	Daniel Goleman	Library	TBR List	9/3/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
57	Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis	Library	TBR List	9/3/2023	General Fiction
DNF	Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
58	Wizardborn	David Farland	Library	Sequel	9/8/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
59	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	Library	TBR List	9/10/2023	General Fiction
60	Bloody Rose	Nicholas Eames	Library	Sequel	9/17/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
61	Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond	Nancy Bardacke	Library	TBR List	9/18/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
DNF	Clarissa	Samuel Richardson	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
DNF	A Question of Upbringing	Anthony Powell	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
62	Precious Little Sleep	Alexis Dubief	Library	TBR List	9/26/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
63	Promise of Blood	Brian McClellan	Library	TBR List	10/4/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
64	Atonement	Ian McEwan	Library	TBR List	10/9/2023	General Fiction
DNF	Storm in June	Irene Nemirovsky	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
65	Diaspora	Greg Egan	Library	TBR List	10/15/2023	Fiction - Science Fiction

66	The Crimson Campaign	Brian McClellan	Library	Sequel	10/19/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Henry Fielding	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
DNF	Life: A User's Manual	Georges Perec	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
67	The Autumn Republic	Brian McClellan	Library	Sequel	10/31/2023	Fiction - Fantasy

Nonfiction - 15
From TBR - 50
Sequels - 25
DNF - 16

[YellowCat]

1. Dreaming Spies, Laurie R. King
2. The Murder of Mary Russell, Laurie R. King
3. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
4. A Taste of Gold and Iron, Alexandra Rowland
5. While We Were Dating, Jasmine Guillory
6. A Restless Truth, Freya Marske
7. The Book of Gothel, Mary McMyne
8. Royal Holiday, Jasmine Guillory
9. A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting, Sophie Irwin
10. Island of the Mad, Laurie R. King
11. Riviera Gold, Laurie R. King
12. Party of Two, Jasmine Guillory
13. Hither Page, Cat Sebastian
14. Castle Shade, Laurie R. King
15. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
16. Bones Never Lie, Kathy Reichs
17. A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby; Vanessa Riley
18. Speaking in Bones, Kathy Reichs
19. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, Cat Sebastian
20. The Knitting Circle, Ann Hood
21. The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes
22. Time Squared, Lesley Krueger
23. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire
24. Notorious, Minerva Spencer
25. The Weight of Ink, Rachel Kadish
26. The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes, Cat Sebastian
28. The Scottish Prisoner, Diana Gabaldon
29. Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
30. Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile
31. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
32. The Rose Code, Kate Quinn
33. The Other Merlin, Robyn Schneider
34. The Future King, Robyn Schneider
35. A Lady for a Duke, Alexis Hall
36. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
37. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman
38. Just one Damned Thing After Another, Jodi Taylor
39. A Symphony of Echoes, Jodi Taylor
40. Because of Miss Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
41. Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles
42. The Sugared Game, KJ Charles
43. A Sinister Revenge, Deanna Raybourn
44. Into the West, Mercedes Lackey
45. Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
46. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
47. Something Fabulous, Alexis Hall
48. Something Spectacular, Alexis Hall
49. Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall
50. Husband Material, Alexis Hall

I did it! Not gonna stop reading though…

[Morning Glory]

68. I "overcame" my autism and all I got was this lousy anxiety disorder: a memoir by Sara Kurchak (audio book)
-the parts about masking were really relatable and she had some funny anecdotes.

69. Trust by Hernan Diaz
-a story about an early 1900s robber baron and his wife told from 4 different perspectives.  The writing was good but I thought the ending was predictable and the story would have been better with more detail about the market manipulations.

70. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
-like others have said, this was entertaining but not realistic

71. The Power by Naomi Alderman
-Science fiction about flipping the patriarchy. I wanted to like this but the violence was just too much (yes I know that exactly the same violence is happening to women all over the globe and she was making a point by having it happen to men in the book but I still found it disturbing to read). I really liked the setup of how the narrative was framed though.

72. The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs by Peter Wohlleben (audio book)
-a series of facts about gardening. Good for listening in the car with kids.

73. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
-2nd book in series. This is definitely one of those series that you have to read in order to know what is going on.

74. Squeezed: Why our families can't afford America by Alyssa Quart (audio book)
-this focused on educated people who grew up middle class and now have unpredictable incomes or other precarious living situations.  A mostly different set of problems than those of the truly poor folks I read about in Matthew Desmond's books, although she did mention housing and childcare shortages, long commutes, etc..

75. Highly Irregular: Why tough, dough, and through don't rhyme and other oddities of the English language by Arika Okrent
-I checked this out because I'm trying to help my son learn spelling and want to be able to give him a real answer when he asks why something is spelled a certain way. I found it both helpful and entertaining.

76. Emotional Labor: The invisible work shaping our lives and how to claim our power by Rose Hackman
-I wish any of this was surprising. She did address a lot of intersectionality issues which I thought was good. I was reading this around the same time as listening to "Squeezed" and there was a lot of overlap between the two.

77. Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
-wonderful short story collection around the theme of death and grieving. It was more sad because I knew Atwood lost her own spouse fairly recently.

78. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the new faces of neurodiversity by Devon Price
-combination of personal memoir and self help book, but with academic rigor and lots of references at the end. I like that he talked about intersectionality and privilege a lot WRT neurdiversity and disability in general, and also did more than a passing mention of people with higher support needs.

79. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
-mystery novel set in 1800s New Zealand with cool experimental format,  but rather long and I felt like some of the same information was repeated too many times because of getting different characters' perspectives.  I know nothing about zodiac so had trouble keeping the characters straight at first but it still read fine as a mystery without the additional meaning with the planets and stuff. Definitely one to read in small chunks as if watching a television series instead of all at once.

[grantmeaname]

Previous years: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021

January
1. How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur ★★★★☆

February
2. Maus by Art Spiegel ★★★★☆

March
3. Groundskeeping by Lee Cole ★★★★☆
4. What we Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon ★★★★☆

April
5. Zodiac by Neal Stephenson ★★★★☆
6. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi ★★★★☆
7. 'You Just Need to Lose Weight' and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon ★★★☆☆
8. Head On by John Scalzi ★★★★☆

May
9. Walkaway by Cory Doctorow ★★★★★

June
10. Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
11. Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
12. Penric's Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
13. Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
Vacation to Spain and Portugal starts here - I'm a huge vacation reader, especially on travel days
14. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by ★★★★☆
15. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay★★★★★
16. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander ★★★★★
17. Lock In by John Scalzi★★★★☆
18. Unlocked by John Scalzi ★★★★☆
19. The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C Mann ★★★★★
20. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ★★★★☆

July
21. Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
22. Strangers Drowning: Grappling With Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar ★★★★☆
23. Arcadia by Lauren Groff ★★★★☆
24. Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
25. The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
26. The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
27. Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson ★★★★☆
trip ended, reading super fast ended, lol

August
28. The Physicians of Vilnoc by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
29. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder ★★★★☆

September
30. The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
31. NPCs by Drew Hayes ★★★★☆
32. Hidden Systems by Dan Nott ★★★☆☆

October
33. Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆

[nessness]

46. Why Do I Do What I Don't Want To Do? by JP Poklukda

47. Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor

[YellowCat]

51. Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline

[Zikoris]

Another 20 down. At this point I've finished all my challenges for the year (Backlog, Nonfiction, Complete the Series) and am focusing all my efforts on 1. Reading all the books in the L.E. Modesitt 36-book Humble Bundle I bought in September and 2. Staying on top of a bajillion new releases by authors I like. Favourites marked:

321. The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt
322. The Towers of the Sunset by L.E. Modesitt
323. The Magic Engineer by L.E. Modesitt
324. The Order War by L.E. Modesitt
325. The Death of Chaos by L.E. Modesitt
326. Fall of Angels by L.E. Modesitt
327. The Chaos Balance by L.E. Modesitt
328. The White Order by L.E. Modesitt

If it's not obvious, I am now OBSESSED with this epic fantasy series, The Saga of Recluce. Instant all-time favourite for it's cool magic system, ideological disputes, interesting characters, and ability to just suck you right in.

329. Betrothed to a Dinosaur by Cassandra Gannon
330. Haze by L.E. Modesitt
331. The Hammer of Darkness by L.E. Modesitt
332. Empress of Eternity by L.E. Modesitt
333. The Exchange by John Grisham
334. Love vs the Ooze Monster by Cassandra Gannon
335. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart
336. Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry by Kelly Pope
337. Starling House by Alix Harrow
338. Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

339. A Curse for True Love by Stephanie Garber

It was a blast going back to the magical Caraval world I love so much. I hope she writes more in the series.

340. A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer Armentrout

[PlanetDee]

41. All the Living and All the Dead by Hayley Campbell

[gatortator]

47. Cloud cuckooland by Anthony Doerr

[Wanttobehome]

My update
1.Life is Long  - Karen Salmansohn                                      Jan
2.The comfort book - Matt Haig                                           Jan
3.Metamorphosis -Franz Kafka                                              Jan
4.Storm Tide - Wilbur Smith                                                 Jan
5.Happy Gut- DR Vincent Pedre                                            Feb
6.The Swedish Art if Aging well - Margaretta Magnusson         Feb
7.Landlines - Raynor Winn                                                    Feb
8. The man who mistook his job for his life - Naomi Shragia    Feb
9. The Salt Path - Raynor Wynn                                            Feb
10.Tip of the Iceburg - Mark Adams                                     -March
11.Diddly Squat - til the cows come home- Jeremy Clarkson - March
12.Budgets don't work - Melissa Browne                              -March
13.Orchard- A year in England's Eden McDonald /Gates        -March
14.Help the witch Tom Cox                                                 -March
15. The green garden - Arin Murphy Hiscock                        -April
16. The little book of Lykke -Meik Wiking                             -April
17, Crusaders - Dan Jones                                                 - April
18.Retirement reinvention - Robin Ryan                              - April
19. Buddhism for busy people                                             April
20. Farewell Mr Puffin - Paul Heiney                                      -May
21.Nowhere for very long - Brianna Madia                           -May
22. Wilding -Isabella Tree                                                   -May
23. The England Coast - Stephen Neale                              - May
24. Rewilding Childhood - Mike Fairclough                            - June
25.The Iceman speaks - Wim Hof                                       - June
26. A zero waste family -  Anita Vandyke                             -June
27. The joyful frugalista  - Serina Bird                                  -June
28. Beak, tooth and claw - Mary Colwell                               -June
29. Live of the stoics - Ryan Holiday                                    - July
30. How to have a good day - Caroline Webb                        - July
31. Rough guide to Turkey - Terry Richardson                       -July
32. Lonely planet Turkey - Lonely Planet                              - July
33. Green living made easy - Nancy Birtwhistle                    - August
34. Feel better in 5 Rangan Chatterjee                                 - August
35. Tea for One - Alice Taylor                                              -August
36. Euphoria -Erin Cullhed                                                  -August
37. Go wild  - Roger Deakin                                               - September
38. Figuring out the past Turchanand Hoyer                         - September
39.The easy way  - Allan Carr                                             - September
40. Northerners - Brian Groom                                            -October
41. The travelling Cat chronicles - Hiro Arikawa                     - October
42. Orkney  - Rough guide                                                   - October
43.Mental Fitness - Ant Middleton                                         - November

I am on track to complete this challenge, one book a week until the end of the year.

[Linea_Norway]

1: Starsight, by Brandon Sanderson
2: Bjørnstad, by Fredrik Backman.
3: Vi mot dere (We against you) by Fredrik Backman.
4: The evening and the morning, by Ken Follett.
5: The Pillars of the Earth part 1, by Ken Follett.
6: Whithout by Ken Follett.
7: Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared Hosein.
8: The pillars of the Earth part 2, by Ken Follett.
9: Din økologiske kjøkkenhage (Your organic kitchen garden), by Birgit Rothmann.
10: Olive, again, by Elisabeth Strout.
11: Dyrking i drivhus (Growing food in a greenhouse), by Eva Robild.
12: The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, by Anna McPartlin.
13: Novaja Semlja effekten (The Novaja Semlja effect), by Odd Harald Hauge.
14: Spiselig hage 2 (Edible garden 2), by Dennis Asbjørnsen.
15: Søvn, ei kulturhistorie (Sleep, a cultural history), by Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen.
16. Oh, William, by Elizabeth Strout.
17: Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout.
18: Spis mer grønt (Eat more greens), by Jørgen Ravneberg. A foraging cookbook.
19: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
20: Matauk med pallekarm (Growing food in a raised bed), by Maria Berg Hestad.
21: En dyster klimabom du ikke orker å lese, (A depressing climate book you don't want to read, by H.A. Fjeld, J.M. Følstad and J.M. Fusdahl.
22: Atlas, the Story of Pa Salt, by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker.
23. Dyrk Enkelt i drivhus (Grow food easily, in a greenhouse), by Maria Berg Hestad.
24: Det åttende livet (til Brilka) (The eighth life (to Brilka)), by Nino Haratischwili.
25: Nei og atter nei (No, and again no), by Nina Lykke.
26: The Edge of the World, by Michael Pye.
27: Min historie (My Story), by Petter Northug/written by Jonas Forsang.
28: The Midnight Rose, by Lucinda Riley
29: Sekten by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
30: Svampar & Svampgifter, by Folke, Hirell, Hultén and Myrnäs. A study book about poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisons, in Swedish.
31: Mentalisten (The Mentalist), by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
32: Skriften i vannet (The writing in the water), by John Ajvide Lindqvist
33: Kroppen for voksne (The body, for adults), by Trond-Viggo Torgersen.

34: Surdeig (Sourdough), by Caper André
35: Knallgode brød (Really Good Bread), by Wenche Frölich
36: Veggies, by Jamie Oliver
37: Fermentering (Fermentation), by Gry Hammer
38: Sparekokeboka (The Saving Cookbook), by Kristoffer Tvilde
39: Fattig Student (Poor Student), by Karen Elene Thorsen
40: Kongen av Lofoten (The King of Lofoten), by Lars Lenth

[Avolonte]

 1     Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
 2     Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
 3     Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
 4     How to be Perfect by Michael Schur
 5     Little Souls: A Novel by Sandra Dallas
 6     $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
 7     Foster by Claire Keegan
 8     The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
 9     The Cactus by Sarah Hayward
 10     At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
 11     Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
 12     Let's Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder
 13     Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
 14     The Lost Man by Jane Harper
 15     The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab
 16     Spare by Prince Harry
 17     Recursion by Blake Crouch
 18     Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
 19     A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris
 20     If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley
 21     Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
 22     Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
 23     How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
 24     The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
 25     The Art of Noticing by Robert Walker
 26     Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
 27     The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
 28     Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
 29     The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
 30     The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
 31     Old New York by Edith Wharton
 32     Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg
 33     Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
 34     In Praise of Paths by Torbjorn Ekelund
 35     Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto
 36     Microadventures by Alastair Humphreys
 37     Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy. It was OK.
 38     This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Slow-going to start but couldn't stop at the end.
 39     Fairy Tale by Stephen King. Loved it--ending seemed too short somehow.
 40     The Second Chance Hotel: A Novel by Sierra Godfrey. Not bad for the romance genre--easy vacation read.
 41     The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward. Liked it.
 42     A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay. Great--still thinking about it days later...
 43     Dracula by Bram Stoker. Read as part of Dracula Daily, where you get emails on the days of the journal entries that make up the book.

[gatortator]

48. Octavia Butler’s Kindred, adapted to graphic novel illustrated by Damian Duffy and John Jennings.

[sui generis]

1.  A Particular Kind of Black Man, by Tope Folarin (Jan 3) (audio).

2.  Ill Will, by Dan Chaon (Jan 13).

3.  Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Jan 27).

4.  Foster, by Claire Keegan (Jan 28).

5.  We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman (Feb 2).

6.  Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Feb 8) (audio).

7.  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder, by Paul G. Hensler with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Feb 13).

8.  Things I Have Withheld, by Kei Miller (Feb 15).

9.  The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki (Feb 18) (audio).

10.  Girlhood, by Melissa Febos (Feb 22) (audio).

11.  Dinosaurs, by Lydia Millet (Feb 23). 

12.  Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie (Mar 4) (audio).

13.  The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (Mar 6).

14.  The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Mar 20) (audio).

15.  The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent—and Reinvent—Our Identities, by Gregory Berns (Mar 22).

16.  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Mar 31) (audio).

17.  Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Apr 9).

18.  Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright (Apr 25) (audio).

19.  Ithaca, by Claire North (Apr 25).

20.  Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager (May 3).

21.  The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (May 7).

22.  Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (May 15) (audio).

23.  Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (May 18).

24.  Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie (May 23) (audio).

25.  The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, by Stephanie Oakes (May 24).

26.  The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Jun 12) (audio).

27.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini (Jun 23).

28.  Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus (Jun 25) (audio). 

29.  The Book of Dreams, by Nina George (Jul 6).

30.  Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Jul 18).

31.  Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto (Jul 30) (audio).

32.  The Heart's Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Aug 2).

33.  The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug 21) (audio).

34.  Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (Sep 2).

35.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sep 4) (audio).

36.  The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (Sep 5).

37.  Mouth to Mouth, by Antoine Wilson (Sep 6).

38.  Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail, by Andrea Lankford (Sep 20) (audio).

39.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Sep 25).

40.  The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin (Oct 5).

41.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by Alice Munro (Oct 9).

42.  The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two, by Sara Baring (Oct 12) (audio).

43.  The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff (Oct 15) (audio).

44.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen (Oct 15).

45.  The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, by Philip Pullman (Oct 16) (audio).   

46.  Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber (Oct 22).

47.  I Didn't Do It, by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (Oct 23) (audio).

48.  The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson (Oct 26) (audio). 

49.  Lost Paradise, by Kathy Marks (Oct 29). 

50.  Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, by Suzanne Roberts (Oct 30) (audio).

51.  Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan (Oct 30).  Love Claire Keegan's spare writing which matches so well the people and environments she writes about.

52.  The Guest Cat, by Takashi Hiraide (Nov 2) (audio). A contemplative novella, with an at-times sweet and at-times mysterious story.

53.  Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker J. Palmer (Nov 11) (audio). Maybe this was more revelatory when it was first published almost 25 years ago, but I found it fairly insipid when I didn't just outright disagree with it. 

54.  The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin (Nov 11).  Enjoyed this story and find it amusing it is called sci-fi, presumably because of the presence of futuristic tech and the fact that someone is visiting a different planet, when the book is really just about politics, psychology and friendship.

[Serendip]

...
47) The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese *bookclub
48) Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman
49) 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
50) The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
51) Stones of Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
52) Built to Move: The 10 essential habits to help you move freely and live fully by Kelly & Juliet Starrett
53) Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens (audiobook)
54) Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
55) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
56) Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles by Beth Pickens (audiobook)
57) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
58) Outsider: An Old Man, A Mountain and a Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell
59) Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know by Alexandra Horowitz

recently finished/reading: this will easily be known as the "OMG, I'M IN OVER MY HEAD" period of dog-based reading

60) Wag: The Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Zazie Todd
61) Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into the World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz
62) Canine Enrichment for the Real World: Making It a Part of Your Dog's Daily Life by Allie Bender & Emily Strong
...there were more that I didn't love but that's enough of that for now.

63) Space Beneath My Feet by Gwen Moffatt : early days climbing/mountaineering writing. very interesting!

[Linea_Norway]

1: Starsight, by Brandon Sanderson
2: Bjørnstad, by Fredrik Backman.
3: Vi mot dere (We against you) by Fredrik Backman.
4: The evening and the morning, by Ken Follett.
5: The Pillars of the Earth part 1, by Ken Follett.
6: Whithout by Ken Follett.
7: Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared Hosein.
8: The pillars of the Earth part 2, by Ken Follett.
9: Din økologiske kjøkkenhage (Your organic kitchen garden), by Birgit Rothmann.
10: Olive, again, by Elisabeth Strout.
11: Dyrking i drivhus (Growing food in a greenhouse), by Eva Robild.
12: The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, by Anna McPartlin.
13: Novaja Semlja effekten (The Novaja Semlja effect), by Odd Harald Hauge.
14: Spiselig hage 2 (Edible garden 2), by Dennis Asbjørnsen.
15: Søvn, ei kulturhistorie (Sleep, a cultural history), by Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen.
16. Oh, William, by Elizabeth Strout.
17: Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout.
18: Spis mer grønt (Eat more greens), by Jørgen Ravneberg. A foraging cookbook.
19: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
20: Matauk med pallekarm (Growing food in a raised bed), by Maria Berg Hestad.
21: En dyster klimabom du ikke orker å lese, (A depressing climate book you don't want to read, by H.A. Fjeld, J.M. Følstad and J.M. Fusdahl.
22: Atlas, the Story of Pa Salt, by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker.
23. Dyrk Enkelt i drivhus (Grow food easily, in a greenhouse), by Maria Berg Hestad.
24: Det åttende livet (til Brilka) (The eighth life (to Brilka)), by Nino Haratischwili.
25: Nei og atter nei (No, and again no), by Nina Lykke.
26: The Edge of the World, by Michael Pye.
27: Min historie (My Story), by Petter Northug/written by Jonas Forsang.
28: The Midnight Rose, by Lucinda Riley
29: Sekten by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
30: Svampar & Svampgifter, by Folke, Hirell, Hultén and Myrnäs. A study book about poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisons, in Swedish.
31: Mentalisten (The Mentalist), by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
32: Skriften i vannet (The writing in the water), by John Ajvide Lindqvist
33: Kroppen for voksne (The body, for adults), by Trond-Viggo Torgersen.
34: Surdeig (Sourdough), by Caper André
35: Knallgode brød (Really Good Bread), by Wenche Frölich
36: Veggies, by Jamie Oliver
37: Fermentering (Fermentation), by Gry Hammer
38: Sparekokeboka (The Saving Cookbook), by Kristoffer Tvilde
39: Fattig Student (Poor Student), by Karen Elene Thorsen
40: Kongen av Lofoten (The King of Lofoten), by Lars Lenth

41: Allmenn teori om glemsel (a General Theory of Oblivion), by José Eduardo Agualusa
42: Fermentert Mat (Fermented Food), A. E. Scheen (reread)
43: Sylting of Safting heile året (Pickling and Juicing through the year) by G. Djupvik

[PlanetDee]

42. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

[nessness]

48. Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff

49. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

50. Live No Lies by John Mark Comer

I read exactly 50 books in 2021 and 2022 (and much fewer before that), so I'm pleased to have hit my goal before the end of the year this year!

[YellowCat]

51. Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
52. Hello Stranger, Katherine Center

[sui generis]

1.  A Particular Kind of Black Man, by Tope Folarin (Jan 3) (audio).

2.  Ill Will, by Dan Chaon (Jan 13).

3.  Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Jan 27).

4.  Foster, by Claire Keegan (Jan 28).

5.  We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman (Feb 2).

6.  Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Feb 8) (audio).

7.  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder, by Paul G. Hensler with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Feb 13).

8.  Things I Have Withheld, by Kei Miller (Feb 15).

9.  The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki (Feb 18) (audio).

10.  Girlhood, by Melissa Febos (Feb 22) (audio).

11.  Dinosaurs, by Lydia Millet (Feb 23). 

12.  Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie (Mar 4) (audio).

13.  The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (Mar 6).

14.  The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Mar 20) (audio).

15.  The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent—and Reinvent—Our Identities, by Gregory Berns (Mar 22).

16.  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Mar 31) (audio).

17.  Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Apr 9).

18.  Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright (Apr 25) (audio).

19.  Ithaca, by Claire North (Apr 25).

20.  Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager (May 3).

21.  The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (May 7).

22.  Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (May 15) (audio).

23.  Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (May 18).

24.  Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie (May 23) (audio).

25.  The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, by Stephanie Oakes (May 24).

26.  The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Jun 12) (audio).

27.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini (Jun 23).

28.  Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus (Jun 25) (audio). 

29.  The Book of Dreams, by Nina George (Jul 6).

30.  Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Jul 18).

31.  Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto (Jul 30) (audio).

32.  The Heart's Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Aug 2).

33.  The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug 21) (audio).

34.  Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (Sep 2).

35.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sep 4) (audio).

36.  The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (Sep 5).

37.  Mouth to Mouth, by Antoine Wilson (Sep 6).

38.  Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail, by Andrea Lankford (Sep 20) (audio).

39.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Sep 25).

40.  The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin (Oct 5).

41.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by Alice Munro (Oct 9).

42.  The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two, by Sara Baring (Oct 12) (audio).

43.  The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff (Oct 15) (audio).

44.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen (Oct 15).

45.  The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, by Philip Pullman (Oct 16) (audio).   

46.  Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber (Oct 22).

47.  I Didn't Do It, by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (Oct 23) (audio).

48.  The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson (Oct 26) (audio). 

49.  Lost Paradise, by Kathy Marks (Oct 29). 

50.  Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, by Suzanne Roberts (Oct 30) (audio).

51.  Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan (Oct 30).

52.  The Guest Cat, by Takashi Hiraide (Nov 2) (audio).

53.  Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker J. Palmer (Nov 11) (audio). 

54.  The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin (Nov 11). 

55.  Clark and Division, by Naomi Hirahara (Nov 15) (audio).  Maybe it was partly the narrator, but this felt like a novel for young children.  Like not even YA.  Although it did talk about sex.  I appreciate the mix of Japanese-American history and noir mystery thriller, though.

56.  The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming & Lauret Savoy (Nov 16). I enjoyed this compilation of essays even though they were of varying quality.  I was surprised and delighted to see one by my own great-aunt, a piece of work of hers I did not know existed.

57.  Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness and Save the Planet, edited by Paul Stamets (Nov 20).  I learned a lot from this book, particularly in the first third, which is about environmental uses (it includes a fascinating list of different mushrooms and what each can remediate, from PCBs, to cadmium and mercury, to E. coli.  Had no idea!) but overall, the essays are very short and thus shallow, and cheerleader-y vs. deeply informative.

[Log]

1. So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport)
2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)
3. The Simple Path to Wealth (JL Collins)

4. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, re-read)
5. The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
6. Happy City (Charles Montgomery)

7. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
8. How to Be Perfect (Michael Schur)

9. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R Covey)
10. A Wizard of Eathsea (Ursula K Le Guin)
11. Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman)

12. Of Boys and Men (Richard Reeves)
13. The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K Le Guin)
14. The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
15. Slouching Towards Utopia (J Bradford DeLong)
16. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
17. Golden Gates (Conor Dougherty)
18. Beautiful World, Where Are You (Sally Rooney)
19. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
20. Bewilderment (Richard Powers)

21. Autonorama (Peter Norton)
22. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Erving Goffman)
23. Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
24. Coventry (Rachel Cusk)
25. One Billion Americans (Matt Yglesias)
26. Travels With Charley (Steinbeck)
27. Wanting (Luke Burgis)
28. Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel)
29. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)
30. Paved Paradise (Henry Grabar)
31. We Need to Hang Out (Billy Baker)
32. Dostoevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears (László F. Földényi)
33. Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky)
34. The Shallows (Nicholas Carr)

35. Triumph of the City by Ed Glaeser
36. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
37. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
38. Performance Success by Don Greene
39. The Poppy War by RF Kuang
40. Trust by Pete Buttigieg

41. How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Freddie deBoer
42. The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwarz
43. The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han

Just scraping along a little behind schedule - will have to cut down on some other time-sinks to get to 50 in the next five and a half weeks. This set of three was all pretty good. I'd recommend reading a blog post about Paradox of Choice rather than reading the whole book, which is definitely too repetitive.

The Freddie deBoer book is solid and insightful - perhaps not a profoundly rich text to be returned to over and over again, but I would absolutely recommend it as a timely and relevant for understanding our current cultural/political moment.

I think I will be reading a lot more Byung-Chul Han. He is a Korean-born German philosopher whose cultural philosophy has a lot of values overlap with Mustachian rejection of workism and consumerism. One particular concern of this book is the idea that the sabbath or other holidays (holy days) set aside time in which life was not a means to an end (work) but instead living was the end in itself. The values inherent in these ritual practice are in conflict with contemporary values, and so these rituals have largely died off. In a culture that truly understood the value of life in itself (and not life as a means towards production/work), early retirement might not be so counter-cultural. That is only one point among many in this book.

Reading some more Han before the year is up should help me catch up - his books are really slim, and while the ideas are dense and profound, the language is very clear and readable.

[Raenia]

	Title	Author	Source	Reason	Date Completed	Genre
1	The Sandman: The Wake	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/1/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Dr Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
2	Death: The High Cost of Living	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/7/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
3	Death: The Time of Your Life	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/7/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
4	Death and Venice	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/8/2022	Fiction - Fantasy
5	Beloved	Toni Morrison	Library	TBR List	1/13/2023	Fiction - Historical
6	Sandman: Overture	Neil Gaiman	Library	Sequel	1/20/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
7	Palace Walk	Naguib Mahfouz	Library	TBR List	1/30/2023	Fiction - Historical
8	White Sand: Volume 1	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	Reread	2/5/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	My Name is Red	Orhan Pamuk	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
9	White Sand: Volume 2	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	Sequel	2/12/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
10	Deathless	Catherynne Valente	Library	TBR List	2/16/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
11	At Large and At Small	Anne Fadiman	Library	TBR List	2/22/2023	Nonfiction - Philosophy
12	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Library	TBR List	3/4/2023	General Fiction
13	White Sand: Volume 3	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	Sequel	3/4/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	London Fields	Martin Amis	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
DNF	The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolano	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
14	Tress of the Emerald Sea	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Other	3/17/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
15	Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes	William Bridges	Library	TBR List	4/4/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
16	The Two-Faced Queen	Nick Martell	Library	Sequel	4/6/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
17	The Glass Bead Game	Herman Hesse	Library	TBR List	4/16/2023	General Fiction
DNF	The Tin Drum	Gunter Glass	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
18	A Shadow In Summer	Daniel Abraham	Library	TBR List	4/18/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Austerlitz	W.G. Sebald	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
19	The Fifth Season	N.K. Jemisin	Own	TBR List	5/3/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
20	A Betrayal in Winter	Daniel Abraham	Library	Sequel	5/9/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
21	Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men	Caroline Criado Perez	Library	TBR List	5/13/2023	General Nonfiction
22	The Dark Talent	Brandon Sanderson	Library	Reread	5/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
23	Unfuck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess	Rachel Hoffman	Library	TBR List	5/20/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
24	Bastille vs the Evil Librarians	Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson	Library	Sequel	5/21/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
25	The Obelisk Gate	N.K. Jemisin	Own	Sequel	5/23/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
26	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Library	TBR List	6/1/2023	General Fiction
27	An Autumn War	Daniel Abraham	Library	Sequel	6/2/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Underworld	Don DeLillo	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
28	The Stone Sky	N.K. Jemisin	Own	Sequel	6/6/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
29	Furies of Calderon	Jim Butcher	Library	TBR List	6/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
30	The Couples' Pregnancy Guide: How to Navigate Pregnancy and Childbirth as a Team	D'Anthony and Rachel Ward	Own	Other	6/16/2023	General Nonfiction
DNF	Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
31	Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation	Anne Helen Petersen	Library	TBR List	6/20/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
32	The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother	Heng Ou	Own	Other	6/24/2023	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
33	The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Other	7/1/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
34	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark	Library	TBR List	7/2/2023	General Fiction
35	The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency	Anna Hess	Library	TBR List	7/6/2023	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
36	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	Library	TBR List	7/7/2023	General Fiction
37	Academ's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	7/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
38	Nausea	Jean-Paul Sartre	Library	TBR List	7/15/2023	General Fiction
39	Red Sister	Mark Lawrence	Library	TBR List	7/17/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
40	Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting from Birth to Preschool	Emily Oster	Library	TBR List	7/18/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
41	The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms	N.K. Jemisin	Own	TBR List	7/22/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
42	The Price of Spring	Daniel Abraham	Library	Sequel	7/25/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Rabbit, Run	John Updike	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
43	Cursor's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	7/27/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
44	Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities - From the Very Start	Magda Gerber and Allison Johnson	Library	TBR List	7/28/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
45	Captain's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	7/30/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
46	The Masterharper of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	Own	Reread	7/31/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
47	What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood	Alexandra Sacks and Catherine Birndorf	Library	TBR List	8/6/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
48	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	Library	TBR List	8/7/2023	General Fiction
49	Grey Sister	Mark Lawrence	Library	Sequel	8/12/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
50	Holy Sister	Mark Lawrence	Library	Sequel	8/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
51	The House of Mirth	Edith Wharton	Library	TBR List	8/16/2023	General Fiction
52	Princeps' Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	8/18/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
53	First Lord's Fury	Jim Butcher	Library	Sequel	8/20/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
54	Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality	Laura A Jana and Jennifer Shu	Library	TBR List	8/22/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
55	Kings of the Wyld	Nicholas Eames	Library	TBR List	8/29/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	The Warden	Anthony Trollope	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
56	Emotional Intelligence: Why it can Matter More than IQ	Daniel Goleman	Library	TBR List	9/3/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
57	Lucky Jim	Kingsley Amis	Library	TBR List	9/3/2023	General Fiction
DNF	Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
58	Wizardborn	David Farland	Library	Sequel	9/8/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
59	The Big Sleep	Raymond Chandler	Library	TBR List	9/10/2023	General Fiction
60	Bloody Rose	Nicholas Eames	Library	Sequel	9/17/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
61	Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond	Nancy Bardacke	Library	TBR List	9/18/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
DNF	Clarissa	Samuel Richardson	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
DNF	A Question of Upbringing	Anthony Powell	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
62	Precious Little Sleep	Alexis Dubief	Library	TBR List	9/26/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
63	Promise of Blood	Brian McClellan	Library	TBR List	10/4/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
64	Atonement	Ian McEwan	Library	TBR List	10/9/2023	General Fiction
DNF	Storm in June	Irene Nemirovsky	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
65	Diaspora	Greg Egan	Library	TBR List	10/15/2023	Fiction - Science Fiction
66	The Crimson Campaign	Brian McClellan	Library	Sequel	10/19/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Henry Fielding	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
DNF	Life: A User's Manual	Georges Perec	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
67	The Autumn Republic	Brian McClellan	Library	Sequel	10/31/2023	Fiction - Fantasy

68	The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children	Ross W Greene	Library	TBR List	11/1/2023	Nonfiction - Self-help
DNF	Cranford	Elizabeth Gaskell	Library	TBR List	N/A	General Fiction
69	Yumi and the Nightmare Painter	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Other	11/6/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life	Richard Louv	Library	TBR List	N/A	Nonfiction - Self-help
70	The Poppy War	R.F. Kuang	Library	TBR List	11/22/2023	Fiction - Fantasy

Nonfiction - 17
From TBR - 54
Sequels - 25
DNF - 18

[Linea_Norway]

1: Starsight, by Brandon Sanderson
2: Bjørnstad, by Fredrik Backman.
3: Vi mot dere (We against you) by Fredrik Backman.
4: The evening and the morning, by Ken Follett.
5: The Pillars of the Earth part 1, by Ken Follett.
6: Whithout by Ken Follett.
7: Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared Hosein.
8: The pillars of the Earth part 2, by Ken Follett.
9: Din økologiske kjøkkenhage (Your organic kitchen garden), by Birgit Rothmann.
10: Olive, again, by Elisabeth Strout.
11: Dyrking i drivhus (Growing food in a greenhouse), by Eva Robild.
12: The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, by Anna McPartlin.
13: Novaja Semlja effekten (The Novaja Semlja effect), by Odd Harald Hauge.
14: Spiselig hage 2 (Edible garden 2), by Dennis Asbjørnsen.
15: Søvn, ei kulturhistorie (Sleep, a cultural history), by Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen.
16. Oh, William, by Elizabeth Strout.
17: Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout.
18: Spis mer grønt (Eat more greens), by Jørgen Ravneberg. A foraging cookbook.
19: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
20: Matauk med pallekarm (Growing food in a raised bed), by Maria Berg Hestad.
21: En dyster klimabom du ikke orker å lese, (A depressing climate book you don't want to read, by H.A. Fjeld, J.M. Følstad and J.M. Fusdahl.
22: Atlas, the Story of Pa Salt, by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker.
23. Dyrk Enkelt i drivhus (Grow food easily, in a greenhouse), by Maria Berg Hestad.
24: Det åttende livet (til Brilka) (The eighth life (to Brilka)), by Nino Haratischwili.
25: Nei og atter nei (No, and again no), by Nina Lykke.
26: The Edge of the World, by Michael Pye.
27: Min historie (My Story), by Petter Northug/written by Jonas Forsang.
28: The Midnight Rose, by Lucinda Riley
29: Sekten by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
30: Svampar & Svampgifter, by Folke, Hirell, Hultén and Myrnäs. A study book about poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisons, in Swedish.
31: Mentalisten (The Mentalist), by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
32: Skriften i vannet (The writing in the water), by John Ajvide Lindqvist
33: Kroppen for voksne (The body, for adults), by Trond-Viggo Torgersen.
34: Surdeig (Sourdough), by Caper André
35: Knallgode brød (Really Good Bread), by Wenche Frölich
36: Veggies, by Jamie Oliver
37: Fermentering (Fermentation), by Gry Hammer
38: Sparekokeboka (The Saving Cookbook), by Kristoffer Tvilde
39: Fattig Student (Poor Student), by Karen Elene Thorsen
40: Kongen av Lofoten (The King of Lofoten), by Lars Lenth
41: Allmenn teori om glemsel (a General Theory of Oblivion), by José Eduardo Agualusa
42: Fermentert Mat (Fermented Food), A. E. Scheen (reread)
43: Sylting of Safting heile året (Pickling and Juicing through the year) by G. Djupvik

44: Ordinary Monsters, by J.M. Miro

[PlanetDee]

For anyone who likes book recommendations, the NPR best books list for 2023 has been out for a while now! I always spend forever looking through it and adding things to my to read list.

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2023

[PlanetDee]

43. Broke in America by Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox

[Linea_Norway]

For anyone who likes book recommendations, the NPR best books list for 2023 has been out for a while now! I always spend forever looking through it and adding things to my to read list.

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2023

Thank you.
I ordered some of them at the library. One was even translated into Norwegian and locally available.
The rest I need to browse when I have more time.

[gatortator]

49. Sophie‘s world, a novel about the history of philosophy, by Jostein Gaarder, English translation by Paulette Moeller

[YellowCat]

51. Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
52. Hello Stranger, Katherine Center
53. Wings Once Cursed and Bound, Piper J. Drake
54. The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman

[sui generis]

1.  A Particular Kind of Black Man, by Tope Folarin (Jan 3) (audio).

2.  Ill Will, by Dan Chaon (Jan 13).

3.  Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Jan 27).

4.  Foster, by Claire Keegan (Jan 28).

5.  We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman (Feb 2).

6.  Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Feb 8) (audio).

7.  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder, by Paul G. Hensler with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Feb 13).

8.  Things I Have Withheld, by Kei Miller (Feb 15).

9.  The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki (Feb 18) (audio).

10.  Girlhood, by Melissa Febos (Feb 22) (audio).

11.  Dinosaurs, by Lydia Millet (Feb 23). 

12.  Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie (Mar 4) (audio).

13.  The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (Mar 6).

14.  The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Mar 20) (audio).

15.  The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent—and Reinvent—Our Identities, by Gregory Berns (Mar 22).

16.  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Mar 31) (audio).

17.  Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Apr 9).

18.  Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright (Apr 25) (audio).

19.  Ithaca, by Claire North (Apr 25).

20.  Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager (May 3).

21.  The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (May 7).

22.  Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (May 15) (audio).

23.  Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (May 18).

24.  Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie (May 23) (audio).

25.  The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, by Stephanie Oakes (May 24).

26.  The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Jun 12) (audio).

27.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini (Jun 23).

28.  Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus (Jun 25) (audio). 

29.  The Book of Dreams, by Nina George (Jul 6).

30.  Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Jul 18).

31.  Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto (Jul 30) (audio).

32.  The Heart's Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Aug 2).

33.  The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug 21) (audio).

34.  Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (Sep 2).

35.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sep 4) (audio).

36.  The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (Sep 5).

37.  Mouth to Mouth, by Antoine Wilson (Sep 6).

38.  Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail, by Andrea Lankford (Sep 20) (audio).

39.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Sep 25).

40.  The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin (Oct 5).

41.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by Alice Munro (Oct 9).

42.  The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two, by Sara Baring (Oct 12) (audio).

43.  The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff (Oct 15) (audio).

44.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen (Oct 15).

45.  The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, by Philip Pullman (Oct 16) (audio).   

46.  Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber (Oct 22).

47.  I Didn't Do It, by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (Oct 23) (audio).

48.  The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson (Oct 26) (audio). 

49.  Lost Paradise, by Kathy Marks (Oct 29). 

50.  Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, by Suzanne Roberts (Oct 30) (audio).

51.  Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan (Oct 30).

52.  The Guest Cat, by Takashi Hiraide (Nov 2) (audio).

53.  Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker J. Palmer (Nov 11) (audio). 

54.  The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin (Nov 11). 

55.  Clark and Division, by Naomi Hirahara (Nov 15) (audio).

56.  The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming & Lauret Savoy (Nov 16).

57.  Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness and Save the Planet, edited by Paul Stamets (Nov 20).

58.  I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, edited by Shelly Oria (Nov 22) (audio).  An excellent collection of essays, stories, creative nonfiction, plays, poetry, and more.

59.  I Was Here, by Rachel Kadish (Nov 26) (audio). A nice novella, but didn't have quite the same intricacy of The Weight of Ink about which the only thing I remember at this point was that I was enraptured.

60.  The Blood of the Vampire, by Florence Marryat (Nov 27). I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this 1897 novel, even though I had gotten it from a list recommending creepy thrillers and it wasn't.

Well, I was supposed to stop at 60 this year, but I'm already partway into #61 and certainly couldn't go without a book for a whole month.  I'll give myself a pass since many of the recent books have been so short they should really only count as a half. 

It has been very fun to clear out a lot of my "back catalog" on my to-read list, since I finally started an account on hoopla through my library, which has a lot of books Libby/Overdrive does not.  I still don't love reading on my phone or tablet (since I can't use my kindle with hoopla), but I've gotten sort of used to it.

[gatortator]

50.  Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

and done!  50 categories, 50 books, 1 year library challenge is complete. 

The library sent me the e-certificate already along with 3 bonus categories for some bonus swag in January.  I love my library and its librarians! They have awesome programs for everyone and this challenge has me reading genres/formats I would normally skip.  Thank you library!

And thank you to all of you.  I finished the challenge one month early this year.  Though this topic is mostly a passive recording of what everyone is reading, it still held me accountable to stay on track, especially during the triple digit months of July, August and September, when my desire to read plummets. 

[YellowCat]

51. Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
52. Hello Stranger, Katherine Center
53. Wings Once Cursed and Bound, Piper J. Drake
54. The Invisible Hour, Alice Hoffman
55. Starling House, Alix E. Harrow

[StarBright]

Howdy All!

It has been a while since I recorded any reads. I caught a nasty case of covid in August and it took until December to realize it may have fried my brain a tiny bit.

My work has also gotten crazy and I've taken on a side gig which has cut into reading time.

I am still reading, but have found myself only interested in rereads lately.

Rereads include:
Atonement
Possession
Cloud Atlas
Anne of Green Gables series
How to be a Happier Parent

All are books that hold special places in my heart so I might be in some sort of literary nesting phase or something ?:)

I love reading folks' lists and look forward to getting through some of these in 2024.
 

[redhead84]

51. Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman
52. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

[PlanetDee]

44. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

[Linea_Norway]

1: Starsight, by Brandon Sanderson
2: Bjørnstad, by Fredrik Backman.
3: Vi mot dere (We against you) by Fredrik Backman.
4: The evening and the morning, by Ken Follett.
5: The Pillars of the Earth part 1, by Ken Follett.
6: Whithout by Ken Follett.
7: Hungry Ghosts, by Kevin Jared Hosein.
8: The pillars of the Earth part 2, by Ken Follett.
9: Din økologiske kjøkkenhage (Your organic kitchen garden), by Birgit Rothmann.
10: Olive, again, by Elisabeth Strout.
11: Dyrking i drivhus (Growing food in a greenhouse), by Eva Robild.
12: The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, by Anna McPartlin.
13: Novaja Semlja effekten (The Novaja Semlja effect), by Odd Harald Hauge.
14: Spiselig hage 2 (Edible garden 2), by Dennis Asbjørnsen.
15: Søvn, ei kulturhistorie (Sleep, a cultural history), by Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen.
16. Oh, William, by Elizabeth Strout.
17: Lucy by the Sea, by Elizabeth Strout.
18: Spis mer grønt (Eat more greens), by Jørgen Ravneberg. A foraging cookbook.
19: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
20: Matauk med pallekarm (Growing food in a raised bed), by Maria Berg Hestad.
21: En dyster klimabom du ikke orker å lese, (A depressing climate book you don't want to read, by H.A. Fjeld, J.M. Følstad and J.M. Fusdahl.
22: Atlas, the Story of Pa Salt, by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker.
23. Dyrk Enkelt i drivhus (Grow food easily, in a greenhouse), by Maria Berg Hestad.
24: Det åttende livet (til Brilka) (The eighth life (to Brilka)), by Nino Haratischwili.
25: Nei og atter nei (No, and again no), by Nina Lykke.
26: The Edge of the World, by Michael Pye.
27: Min historie (My Story), by Petter Northug/written by Jonas Forsang.
28: The Midnight Rose, by Lucinda Riley
29: Sekten by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
30: Svampar & Svampgifter, by Folke, Hirell, Hultén and Myrnäs. A study book about poisonous mushrooms and mushroom poisons, in Swedish.
31: Mentalisten (The Mentalist), by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus
32: Skriften i vannet (The writing in the water), by John Ajvide Lindqvist
33: Kroppen for voksne (The body, for adults), by Trond-Viggo Torgersen.
34: Surdeig (Sourdough), by Caper André
35: Knallgode brød (Really Good Bread), by Wenche Frölich
36: Veggies, by Jamie Oliver
37: Fermentering (Fermentation), by Gry Hammer
38: Sparekokeboka (The Saving Cookbook), by Kristoffer Tvilde
39: Fattig Student (Poor Student), by Karen Elene Thorsen
40: Kongen av Lofoten (The King of Lofoten), by Lars Lenth
41: Allmenn teori om glemsel (a General Theory of Oblivion), by José Eduardo Agualusa
42: Fermentert Mat (Fermented Food), A. E. Scheen (reread)
43: Sylting of Safting heile året (Pickling and Juicing through the year) by G. Djupvik
44: Ordinary Monsters, by J.M. Miro

45: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

[erp]

I'm not going to hit 50, but I'm at 30 or so. This has been an inspiring list to read over the year!

[sui generis]

1.  A Particular Kind of Black Man, by Tope Folarin (Jan 3) (audio).

2.  Ill Will, by Dan Chaon (Jan 13).

3.  Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Jan 27).

4.  Foster, by Claire Keegan (Jan 28).

5.  We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman (Feb 2).

6.  Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie (Feb 8) (audio).

7.  Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder, by Paul G. Hensler with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Feb 13).

8.  Things I Have Withheld, by Kei Miller (Feb 15).

9.  The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki (Feb 18) (audio).

10.  Girlhood, by Melissa Febos (Feb 22) (audio).

11.  Dinosaurs, by Lydia Millet (Feb 23). 

12.  Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie (Mar 4) (audio).

13.  The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell (Mar 6).

14.  The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Mar 20) (audio).

15.  The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent—and Reinvent—Our Identities, by Gregory Berns (Mar 22).

16.  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe (Mar 31) (audio).

17.  Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Apr 9).

18.  Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright (Apr 25) (audio).

19.  Ithaca, by Claire North (Apr 25).

20.  Home Before Dark, by Riley Sager (May 3).

21.  The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin (May 7).

22.  Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (May 15) (audio).

23.  Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (May 18).

24.  Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie (May 23) (audio).

25.  The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, by Stephanie Oakes (May 24).

26.  The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Jun 12) (audio).

27.  To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini (Jun 23).

28.  Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus (Jun 25) (audio). 

29.  The Book of Dreams, by Nina George (Jul 6).

30.  Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Jul 18).

31.  Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto (Jul 30) (audio).

32.  The Heart's Invisible Furies, by John Boyne (Aug 2).

33.  The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug 21) (audio).

34.  Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (Sep 2).

35.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sep 4) (audio).

36.  The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (Sep 5).

37.  Mouth to Mouth, by Antoine Wilson (Sep 6).

38.  Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail, by Andrea Lankford (Sep 20) (audio).

39.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Sep 25).

40.  The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Hunter Austin (Oct 5).

41.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by Alice Munro (Oct 9).

42.  The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two, by Sara Baring (Oct 12) (audio).

43.  The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff (Oct 15) (audio).

44.  The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions, by Peter Brannen (Oct 15).

45.  The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, by Philip Pullman (Oct 16) (audio).   

46.  Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber (Oct 22).

47.  I Didn't Do It, by Jaime Lynn Hendricks (Oct 23) (audio).

48.  The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson (Oct 26) (audio). 

49.  Lost Paradise, by Kathy Marks (Oct 29). 

50.  Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, by Suzanne Roberts (Oct 30) (audio).

51.  Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan (Oct 30).

52.  The Guest Cat, by Takashi Hiraide (Nov 2) (audio).

53.  Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, by Parker J. Palmer (Nov 11) (audio). 

54.  The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin (Nov 11). 

55.  Clark and Division, by Naomi Hirahara (Nov 15) (audio).

56.  The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming & Lauret Savoy (Nov 16).

57.  Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness and Save the Planet, edited by Paul Stamets (Nov 20).

58.  I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, edited by Shelly Oria (Nov 22) (audio). 

59.  I Was Here, by Rachel Kadish (Nov 26) (audio).

60.  The Blood of the Vampire, by Florence Marryat (Nov 27).

61.  One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir, by Henry Shukman (Dec 5) (audio).  Nice prose and interesting to hear the details of someone's ups and downs on the long path to enlightenment (but could have been a touch more pithy).

62.  The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui (Dec 6).  My first graphic novel, I think! I thought it was great (although the movement through the book, which wasn't seamless on hoopla, made it a little frustrating).

63.  The Trial, by Franz Kafka (Dec 7). So disappointed in this.  Had high hopes because I was really intrigued and engaged by The Metamorphosis.  But the protagonist here was totally unlikeable and each chapter seemed a series of almost unrelated events that you would most often hear nothing more about.  The final chapter, which skipped ahead by about 7 years, was a mystery.  I realize it was unfinished when he died, but I was under the impression it was a lot better than I found it.