50 Books in 2023!

[Serendip]

...
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
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
63) Space Beneath My Feet by Gwen Moffatt

recently finished/reading: this is the "OMG, I'M IN OVER MY HEAD" period of dog-based reading...continued

64) Decoding Your Dog: : Explaining Common Dog Behaviors and How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones by Amer. Coll. of Veterinary Behaviorists, Debra F. Horwitz
65) Extraordinary Unknowing by Elizabeth Mayer
65) Lessons in Chemistry (finally-- *fiction*!!) by Bonnie Garmus (bookclub)

[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
56. Cassiel’s Servant, Jaqueline Carey

[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
44. Symbols and their meanings - Jack Tressidder                  -November
45.The self love habit - Fiona Brennan                                   - November
46.Future steading - Jade Miles                                             -November
47.wintering - Kathrine May                                                  -December

[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

46: Landet som lovet alt (The country that promised everything) by Sidsel Wold.

[Zikoris]

Twenty-five books this time instead of 20, because I've officially hit my 365 goal! Favourites marked.

341. Colors of Chaos by L.E. Modesitt
342. Magi'i of Cyador by L.E. Modesitt
343. Scion of Cyador by L.E. Modesitt
344. Wellspring of Chaos by L.E. Modesitt
345. Ordermaster by L.E. Modesitt
346. Natural Ordermage by L.E. Modesitt
347. Mage-Guard of Hamor by L.E. Modesitt
348. Arms-Commander by L.E. Modesitt
349. Cyador's Heirs by L.E. Modesitt
350. Heritage of Cyador by L.E. Modesitt
351. Recluce Tales by L.E. Modesitt
352. The Mongrel Mage by L.E. Modesitt
353. Outcasts of Order by L.E. Modesitt
354. The Mage-Fire War by L.E. Modesitt

I'm still loving the Recluce series, just a great epic fantasy.

355. From a Far and Lovely Country by Alexander McCall Smith
356. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust by Neal Shusterman
357. The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
358. The Godhead Complex by James Dashner
359. Saevus Corax Captures the Castle by K.J. Parker
360. Vengeance of the Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller
361. What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown
362. Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
363. System Collapse by Martha Wells
364. Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
365. The Endless War by Danielle Jensen

For the rest of this year I'm hoping to finish the Recluce series (one more book), read the Corean series in full (eight books), and catch up on all my new releases (eight more books).

In addition to other challenges, I'm hoping to read the Harvard Classics (five foot shelf + fiction, 71 volumes total) in full in 2024. Does anyone know if there are any online groups dedicated to that? It would be nice to have some accountability as it's quite a large project, about 37,000 pages of what I assume will be fairly dense writing. Doing it with a group or a buddy would make it a lot easier.

[StarBright]

1. Survival of the Thickest by Michelle Buteau
2. Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas
3. Longbourn by Jo Baker
4. Atomic Habits by James Clear
5. The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay (accidental reread according to my kindle)
6. Good Food Bad Diet by Abby Langer
7. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
8. Designing Your Life by by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
9. The House With the Golden Door by Elodie Harper
10. Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
11. Desperation in Death by JD Robb
12. The Belle of Bellgrave Square by Mim Matthews
13. The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
14. The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
15. It Girl by Ruth Ware
16. Juliet by Anne Fortier
17. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
18. The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
19. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
20. The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena Burdick
21. Bridgertons Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn
22. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
23. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
24. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
25. Spare by Prince Harry
26. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margaretta Magnusson
27. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Drs Paul Babiak & Robert D Hare
28. Laws of Money by Suze Orman
29. Verity by Colleen Hoover
30. A Maid's Diary by Loreth Ann White
31. Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Gross
32. Dawnlands by Phillipa Gregory   
33. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
34. Shadow of the Hedgemon by Orson Scott Card
35. Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
36. Taste by Stanley Tucci
37. Witch, Please! by Ann Aguire
38. Hestia Strikes a Match by Christine Grillo
39. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
40. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
41. On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
42. The Cottage by Danielle Steel
43. The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honree Fannone Jeffers
44. Crowning Glory of Calla Lilly Ponder by Rebecca Wells
45. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
46. Song of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
47. Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
48. Daughters of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
49. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
50. New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
51.Madam Tussaud: A novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
52. The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
53. Galatea by Madeline Miller (shorter than a novella, more like a long story)
54. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Laura Maiklem
55. The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
56. Attention Span by GLoria Mark, PhD
57. Love and Fury by Samantha Silva
58. The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
59. Outlive by Peter Attia
60. The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen
61. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

[Morning Glory]

80. The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
-3rd and final book in series. I like how she did the ending.

81. In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
-fun historical fantasy with mermaids

82. The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
-nice older work by this author

83. The Insect Crisis: The fall of the tiny empires that rule the world by Oliver Milman (audio book)
-sorta depressing but the author emphasized the point that insects are one area where individuals with a small garden are able to make a bit of difference. I have gained a new appreciation for dung beetles.

84. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
-this is popular for some reason. The concept was nice (drama about an enmeshed family) and the plot was decent but I did not like the writing style (too much explaining, not enough action).

85. Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
-This one touches on a lot of topics I've seen on the forum over the years so may be interesting to a lot of people here. In addition to workplace burnout, Price also discusses other cultural factors that make us tie our self-worth to achievement or other external goals that take a lot of effort. This NPR interview summarizes the book pretty well: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1039676445/laziness-does-not-exist-devon-price

86. The Farm by Joanne Ramos
-scary thriller about the gestational surrogate industry and how immigrant women and care workers in general are treated in the US. This was really well written and I liked the subtle dark humor but the story got more and more fucked up as it went along and the ending made me angry so it was definitely not a relaxing thing to read.

87. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons by Karin Smirnoff
-Continuation of Stieg Larsson's series by a new author. Not great but not terrible either. It is fine as a standalone book if you have not read the others or if it has been a long time. 

88. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
-memoir from a young doctor with a fatal cancer diagnosis. There were a lot of good concepts in here especially relating to empathy and prioritization of time.

89. Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and science of remembering everything by Joshua Foer
-Documentary-style book about competitive memorizers. It was nice to read a nonfiction about something fun and quirky for a change.

90. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
-tragedy set in the post-civil-war US south. Very theme-heavy, a bit slow to start out but I ended up really enjoying it.  Don't get too attached to any of the characters.

91. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders (audio book)
-there is already a thread about this one. It was less about a shopping ban and more about maintaining sobriety through life changes and family/job stress.

I have 4 currently in-progress so might get to my stretch goal of 100 books if I pick up a few more short ones or my turn comes back around for some I ran out of time before finishing.

[nessness]

51. Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry

52. The Best American Short Stories of 2021, Ed. By Jesmyn Ward. Highly recommended - there were some really powerful stories.

53. The Three of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams. I didn't like this one at all and don't understand all the praise it got.

[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
56. Cassiel’s Servant, Jaqueline Carey
57. Assistant to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer

[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
46: Landet som lovet alt (The country that promised everything) by Sidsel Wold.

47: The Retreat, by Sarah Pearse.

[PlanetDee]

45. Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks

[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).

62.  The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui (Dec 6).

63.  The Trial, by Franz Kafka (Dec 7).

64.  The End of Drum-Time, by Hanna Pylväinen (Dec 10) (audio). Pretty cool historical fiction set in Lapland.

65.  The End of the Day, by Bill Clegg (Dec 14) (audio). I admire the author's intricately detailed story and pacing, but was also exhausted by and got impatient with it.  Bit of a bummer after adoring his previous book Did You Ever Have a Family.

66.  The Clockmaker's Daughter, by Kate Morton (Dec 17).  I've had such fun with so many of this author's previous historical fiction/mystery novels but this one - I think the intricacy got away from her and left plot holes, two dimernsional characters and tedium.  :(

[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
56. Cassiel’s Servant, Jaqueline Carey
57. Assistant to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer
58. Duke by Default, Alyssa Cole

[Frankies Girl]

MAIN LIST

1. The Magpie Lord: Charm of Magpies (book 1) by KJ Charles
2. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)
3. Leech by Hiron Ennes
4. Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness series, book 10)
5. On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness series, book 11)
6. Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness series, book 12)
7. Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness series, book 13)
8. The last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness series, book 14)
9. Cinder by Marissa Meyer (The lunar chronicles, book 1)
10. God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness series, book 15)
11. Peril in Paris by Rhys Bowen (Her Royal Spyness series, book 16)
12. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
13. Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar (book 3 in the trilogy)
14. As I knew him : my dad, Rod Serling by Anne Serling
15. The Motion Picture Teller by Colin Cotterill
16. The ghost of Christmas past: A Molly Murphy Mystery by Rhys Bowen
17.  Wild Irish rose: A Molly Murphy Mystery by Rhys Bowen
18. Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight mystery #1) by Victoria Thompson
19.  In The Time of Our History by Susanne Pari
20.  The Spite House by Johnny Compton
21. Rules for Vampires by Alex Foulkes
22. Scarlet (The Lunar chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
23. Pigs Don't Fly by Mary Brown
24. Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl McBride, PhD
25. Murder at the Mansion(a Victorian Village Mystery #1) by Sheila Connolly
26. Buried in a Bog (County Cork Mystery #1) by Sheila Connolly
27. The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner
28. Killer in the Carriage House (a Victorian Village Mystery #2) by Sheila Connolly
29. Scandal in Skibbereen (County Cork Mystery #2) by Sheila Connolly
30. So Close (a Blacklist Novel #1) by Sylvia Day
31. Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes
32. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
33. Murder on St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson (Gaslight Series #2)
34.  Murder on Gramercy Park by Victoria Thompson (Gaslight Series #3)
35.  You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith (no not the actor, the poet)
36.  Murder on Marble Row by Victoria Thompson (Gaslight Series #4)



JUST COMPLETED

37.  Playing the Witch Card by K.J. Dell'Antonia
Flair leaves her cheating husband and with her 13 year old daughter, moves back to her grandmother's home town, after inheriting her home and opens a pastry shop. Also happens to come from a magical family, also also happens to be magic herself, but she cast off that part of herself a long time ago. Or so she thought. Halloween is huge in the little town and she and her family get drawn into both it and curses, romance and something potentially sinister. It was cute for the most part, and it read a bit more as a light romance with some family drama and lots of witch stuff than dark and deeply engaging.






DID NOT FINISH

The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel by Tomihiko Morimi
It seemed okay, but just don't have the right headspace to read at the moment.

[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
46: Landet som lovet alt (The country that promised everything) by Sidsel Wold.
47: The Retreat, by Sarah Pearse.

48: Fermented Foods, The History and Science of a Microbiological wonder, by Christine Baumgarthuber.

[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
46: Landet som lovet alt (The country that promised everything) by Sidsel Wold.
47: The Retreat, by Sarah Pearse.
48: Fermented Foods, The History and Science of a Microbiological wonder, by Christine Baumgarthuber.

49: How to sell a haunted house, by Grady Hendrix.

[Serendip]

...
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
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
63) Space Beneath My Feet by Gwen Moffatt
64) Decoding Your Dog: : Explaining Common Dog Behaviors and How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones by Amer. Coll. of Veterinary Behaviorists, Debra F. Horwitz
65) Lessons in Chemistry (fiction) by Bonnie Garmus (bookclub)
66) Extraordinary Unknowing by Elizabeth Mayer : still in progress

recently finished/reading

67) Stay True: A memoir by Hua Hsu
68) Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (bookclub): Somewhat gruesome & dark but also silly murder mystery.

[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 (re-read)
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

44. The Cult of Smart by Freddie DeBoer
45. Psychopolitics by Byung-Chul Han
46. The Idiot by Dostoevsky
47. The Idiot by Elif Batuman
48. Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting
49. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
50. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck (re-read)

Just crossed 50 the other day - I might yet get to 51 in these last few days, 52 seems less likely.

[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
46: Landet som lovet alt (The country that promised everything) by Sidsel Wold.
47: The Retreat, by Sarah Pearse.
48: Fermented Foods, The History and Science of a Microbiological wonder, by Christine Baumgarthuber.
49: How to sell a haunted house, by Grady Hendrix.

50: The Sanatorium, by Sarah Pearse.

[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).

62.  The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui (Dec 6).

63.  The Trial, by Franz Kafka (Dec 7).

64.  The End of Drum-Time, by Hanna Pylväinen (Dec 10) (audio).

65.  The End of the Day, by Bill Clegg (Dec 14) (audio).

66.  The Clockmaker's Daughter, by Kate Morton (Dec 17).

67.  A Head Full of Ghosts, by Paul Tremblay (Dec 19) (audio). Decent creepy novel.

68.  Book Lovers, by Emily Henry (Dec 22) (audio).  I thought this was going to be a fun novel with a side of romance to listen to while hiking, but it turned out to be full-on romance in all the best and (mostly) worst ways.

69.  The Fraud, by Zadie Smith (Dec 25).  On so many critics' Best of 2023 lists, but my friends and I were all left more than a little underwhelmed.

[redhead84]

Last update for 2023:

53. Five Gold Rings by Kristen Bailey
54. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
55. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me by William Landay
56. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

[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
56. Cassiel’s Servant, Jaqueline Carey
57. Assistant to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer
58. Duke by Default, Alyssa Cole
59. Dune, Frank Herbert
60. Prairie Fires, Caroline Fraser

[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

71	The Lair of Bones	David Farland	Library	Sequel	12/3/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
DNF	Civilized to Death	Christopher Ryan	Library	TBR List	N/A	Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
72	The Last Wish	Andrzej Sapkowski	Library	TBR List	12/13/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
73	The Moonstone, Part One	Wilkie Collins	Library	TBR List	12/17/2023	General Fiction
74	City of Bones	Cassandra Clare	Own	Other	12/24/2023	Fiction - Fantasy
75	The Sunlit Man	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Other	12/29/2023	Fiction - Fantasy

Nonfiction - 17
From TBR - 57
Sequels - 26
DNF - 19

I don't expect to finish any more books this year, so I'll see you all in next year's thread!

[grantmeaname]

I got to 45, not quite 50, but still a lot more than previous years, and I can be proud of that. Some really standout works in this year's crop too. See you all in 2024.

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 ★★★★☆

November
34. The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★☆
35. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by  Charles Mann ★★★★★
36. Grunt: the Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach ★★★★☆

December
37. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin ★★★☆☆
38. The Ghos Bride by Yangsze Choo ★★★☆☆
39. Freedom by Jonathen Franzen ★★★★☆
40. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison ★★★★☆
41. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach ★★★★☆
42. Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy ★★★☆☆
43. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith ★★★★★
44. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann ★★★★★
45. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★☆

[StarBright]

1. Survival of the Thickest by Michelle Buteau
2. Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas
3. Longbourn by Jo Baker
4. Atomic Habits by James Clear
5. The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay (accidental reread according to my kindle)
6. Good Food Bad Diet by Abby Langer
7. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
8. Designing Your Life by by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
9. The House With the Golden Door by Elodie Harper
10. Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
11. Desperation in Death by JD Robb
12. The Belle of Bellgrave Square by Mim Matthews
13. The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
14. The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
15. It Girl by Ruth Ware
16. Juliet by Anne Fortier
17. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
18. The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
19. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
20. The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena Burdick
21. Bridgertons Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn
22. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
23. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
24. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
25. Spare by Prince Harry
26. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margaretta Magnusson
27. Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Drs Paul Babiak & Robert D Hare
28. Laws of Money by Suze Orman
29. Verity by Colleen Hoover
30. A Maid's Diary by Loreth Ann White
31. Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Gross
32. Dawnlands by Phillipa Gregory   
33. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
34. Shadow of the Hedgemon by Orson Scott Card
35. Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
36. Taste by Stanley Tucci
37. Witch, Please! by Ann Aguire
38. Hestia Strikes a Match by Christine Grillo
39. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
40. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
41. On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
42. The Cottage by Danielle Steel
43. The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honree Fannone Jeffers
44. Crowning Glory of Calla Lilly Ponder by Rebecca Wells
45. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
46. Song of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
47. Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
48. Daughters of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
49. The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
50. New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
51.Madam Tussaud: A novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
52. The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
53. Galatea by Madeline Miller (shorter than a novella, more like a long story)
54. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Laura Maiklem
55. The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
56. Attention Span by GLoria Mark, PhD
57. Love and Fury by Samantha Silva
58. The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
59. Outlive by Peter Attia
60. The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen
61. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Last two for 2023

62. Iceburg by Jennifer A Nielsen (with my daughter)
63. Arcadia by Lauren Groff (I have really liked both books of hers that I've read and am going to put her new one in my TBR pile for 2024)

Favorite Books!

I liked when people listed their favorite books last year - so I'm going to do the same this year. It was not a stellar book year for me honestly, lots of blah.

But my surprise favorite for the year was: Hestia Strikes a Match! By Christine Grillo. It is a light book and it almost felt like a step-child of the Bridget Jones and Jennifer Weiner books of the aughts. It is about a woman finding love in post-second civil war America.

As the world got darker this year, I really appreciated this book's story of finding joy and meaning in life, even in hard times. I find myself thinking about it, months after finishing it. 

Runner Ups:

• Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (I'm a sucker for sports comeback stories!)
• Spare by Prince Harry (the ghost writer is EXCELLENT and wrote his own great memoir 20 years ago, The Tender Bar)
• Arcadia by Lauren Groff
• Also I could have sworn I read Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett and I just don't see it on my list - so maybe I read it at the end of 2022. But it was also in my brain as one of my favorites for 2023 (so that tells you something :) )

Book that drove me nuts/didn't like:
Designing Your Life by by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Otherwise, lots of forgettable stuff this year.

[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
44. Symbols and their meanings - Jack Tressidder                  -November
45.The self love habit - Fiona Brennan                                   - November
46.Future steading - Jade Miles                                             -November
47.wintering - Kathrine May                                                  -December
48. Britain's Coast                                                                - December
49. Guide to magical Britain                                                  - December
50. The Winter garden - Alexandra Bell                                  - December

I have completed the challenge and plan to repeat in 2024.
I have highlghted my favpourites in green and the best book of the year in Red.

See you all next year

[nessness]

54. All My Knotted Up Life by Beth Moore. I'm not usually into memoirs but I really enjoyed this one - she is such a gifted storyteller.

55. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

56. The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes

57. The New Testament. I've read through the whole Bible the last few years but decided to slow it down this year. I'm planning to go back to the whole Bible next year though.

And that's a wrap for 2023! I'm pretty sure that's the most books I've read in a year in my adult life.

[Morning Glory]

92. The Future by Naomi Alderman
-fun fantasy about a plot to trick tech CEOs into thinking there is a disaster so they go hide in their bunkers and the monopolies can be broken up. there is a nod to forum culture and a lot about how social media algorithms mess with everyone's heads. Finished reading it 2 days before the article came out about Zuckerberg's bunker in Hawaii.

93. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
-novel for younger audiences about a young girl who deals with the aftermath of witnessing her friend being shot by police. A very fast read and nice way to tackle this topic.

94. The Nordic Theory of Everything: In search of a better life by Anu Partanen
-Nice account of how the lack of social services in the US actually makes all of us less free. It felt a bit repetitive at times but it may have just been overlap with other books/articles I have read.

95. The Crane Wife by C.J. Hauser (audio book)
-essay collection about relationships, the sort of thing that plays well on audio.

96. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (audio book)
-Beautifully written series of essays about the relationship between humans and nature and the contrast between what we consider 'modern science' and Native American wisdom, with a focus on plants. I really enjoyed it.

97. How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur (audio book)
-a lighthearted look at Western philosophy. I liked the actors on the audio book.

98. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (audio book)
-I did not like this as much as other books on the same topic. I think I'm mostly reacting to the writing style/language choices which made him sound like an asshole but also some of the data seemed cherry picked although it was hard to tell with the audio edition. Will probably avoid other books by this author.

99.  A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
-I had never read this before and only seen parts of the film. I enjoyed the made-up language and actually rather liked the book in spite of the main character being a psychopath.

100. The Giver by Lois Lowry
-"Classic" dystopian children's book that I skipped because I was too old for it when it came out.   I can see how it has influenced other books that have been published since.

101. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
-fun detective novel set in an alternate reality with time travel. Will read more of this series when I am in the mood for something light.

102. What if? Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe (audio book)
-good for listening in the car with kids

103. Gathering Moss: A natural and cultural history of mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer (audio book)
-listened on a road trip and it made me want to get out of the car to look for moss

[ahptex]

(1) The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
(2) People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
(3) The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
(4) In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
(5) The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
(6) The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
(7) Seek and Hide by Amy Gajda
(8) A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming
(9) The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
(10) Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
(11) Kindred by Octavia Butler
(12) Healing our Broken Humanity by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill
(13) Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
(14) Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson
(15) The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths
(16) Hothouse Earth by Bill McGuire
(17) The Old Success by Martha Grimes
(18) On Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg
(19) The Power of Language by Viorica Marian
(20) A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
(21) A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
(22) The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths
(23) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
(24) The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths
(25) The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths
(26) The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths
(27) The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths
(28) The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths
(29) The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths
(30) The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
(31) The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
(32) The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths
(33) Do I Stay Christian by Brian D. McLaren
(34) Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
(35) Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
(36) Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

(37) The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
(38) Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
(39) The Revolt Against Humanity by Adam Kirsch
(40) Next Stop, Reloville by Peter T. Kilburn
(41) Nest: A Memoir of Home on the Move by Catriona Turner
(42) The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
(43) The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays by Irena Smith
(44) The Hangman by Louise Penny
(45) Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
(46) Beyond a Binary God by Tara Soughers
(47) The Gentle Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margareta Magnusson
(48) The Book on Advanced Tax Strategies: Cracking the Code by Amanda Han and Matthew McFarland

almost made it to 50! Will look forward to joining next year.

[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     $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
 6     Foster by Claire Keegan
 7     The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
 8     The Cactus by Sarah Hayward
 9     At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
 10     Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
 11     Let's Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder
 12     Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
 13     The Lost Man by Jane Harper
 14     The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab
 15     Spare by Prince Harry
 16     Recursion by Blake Crouch
 17     Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
 18     A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris
 19     If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley
 20     Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
 21     Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
 22     How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
 23     The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
 24     The Art of Noticing by Robert Walker
 25     Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
 26     The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
 27     Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
 28     The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
 29     The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
 30     Old New York by Edith Wharton
 31     Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg
 32     In Praise of Paths by Torbjorn Ekelund
 33     Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto
 34     Microadventures by Alastair Humphreys
 35     Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy
 36     This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
 37     Fairy Tale by Stephen King
 38     The Second Chance Hotel: A Novel by Sierra Godfrey
 39     The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
 40     A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
 41     Dracula by Bram Stoker
 42     Hundred Dollar Holiday by Bill McKibben
 43     The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
 44     My Murder by Katie Williams
 45     Hauntings: Is There Anybody There? by Norah Lofts
 46     Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
 47     Coraline by Neil Gaiman
 48     A Christmas Memory: One Christmas and the Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
 49     The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
 50     The Talisman by Peter Straub and Stephen King
   
    Re-reads:
 1     Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
 2     Escape Everything! By Robert Wringham
   
    Short stories:
    A Room in a Rectory by Andrew Caldecott
    Afterward by Edith Wharton

Full list. Made it - whew! I haven't read this much in many years. This was a great challenge. I love seeing what other people are reading, and it's cool to see other readers who seem to have similar tastes. Favorites - Wintering, Water for Elephants, Recursion, the Truman Capote stories, Fairy Tale. The House on the Borderland - not a favorite, exactly, but I still think about it. So bizarre. Some meh - The Housemaid, Spare, Cover Story.

[Zikoris]

Calling it for 2023 at a total of 382 books. Here's the final batch:

366. Like Thunder by Nnedi Okorafor
367. Fairhaven Rising by L.E. Modesitt
368. Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
369. Anything with Nothing by Mercedes Lackey

370. Legacies by L.E. Modesitt
371. Darknesses by L.E. Modesitt
372. Scepters by L.E. Modesitt

I really loved the first story arc of the Corean series. It's your classic farmboy-turned-hero, but more... extreme. Similar feel/atmosphere to the new Final Fantasy game, which I'm also playing now.

373. Alector's Choice by L.E. Modesitt
374. Cadmian's Choice by L.E. Modesitt
375. Soarer's Choice by L.E. Modesitt
376. The Lord-Protector's Daughter by L.E. Modesitt
377. Lady-Protector by L.E. Modesitt

378. Saevus Corax Gets Away with Murder by K.J. Parker

The first two in this series were kind of goofy and silly, so having the third one be an emotional kick in the gut was really out of left field. Loved it, and was really surprised.

379. Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
380. Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
381. Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey
382. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

I'll be back in the new year with my 2024 365 Book Challenge!

[Serendip]

Okay--final list (favourites bolded) A decent reading year...had a lot of DNF's as well. Will be trying to read a lot of books off of my bookshelf during 2024.


1) Also A Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, And Me by Ada Calhoun
2) Pure Colour by Sheila Heti (fiction)
3) On Beauty by Zadie Smith (fiction, bookclub)
4) The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
5) Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
6) Fight Night by Miriam Toews (fiction)
7) The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Johnson
8) Pippi Goes On Board by Astrid Lindgren
9) 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater by Sarah Ruhl
10) Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)
11) Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World by Lama Surya Das
12) My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
13) The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
14) The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (memoir)
15) Effortless Mindfulness by Loch Kelly (audiobook)
16) Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
17) Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage (fiction/bookclub)
18) Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chodron
19) A Mind at Home With Itself by Byron Katie
20) The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (fiction/bookclub)
21) On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason
22) The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 
23) Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
24) Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores
25) An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler
26) The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer and More Resilient by William.B Irvine
27) Namwayut: A Pathway to Reconciliation : We Are All One by Chief Robert Joseph

28) Vesper Flights by Helen McDonald (essays)
29) Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence **by Jacob Lund Fisker
30) I May Be Wrong: And Other Wisdoms From Life as a Forest Monk by Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad (bookclub)
31) Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food by Catherine Price
32) Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
33) Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
34) Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
35) The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka
36) The Last Winter by Carrie Mac (bookclub)
37) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (audiobook)
38) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
39) The Energy and Art of Restorative Yoga by Emily Kane
40) The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
41) Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-human World by Emma Marris
42) The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
43) The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons of Wealth, Greed and Happiness by Morgan Housel
44) The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (audiobook)
45) On Looking: Eleven Walks With Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
46) The Way of Effortless Mindfulness by Loch Kelly (audiobook)
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
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
63) Space Beneath My Feet by Gwen Moffatt
64) Decoding Your Dog: : Explaining Common Dog Behaviors and How to Prevent or Change Unwanted Ones by Amer. Coll. of Veterinary Behaviorists, Debra F. Horwitz
65) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (fiction, bookclub)
66) Extraordinary Unknowing by Elizabeth Mayer
67) Stay True: A memoir by Hua Hsu
68) Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (fiction, bookclub)
69) The Weight of Snow by Christian Guay-Poliquin (fiction)


books I read earlier in year but forgot to add to list
70) The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
71) Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

[Log]

Was just looking at Letterboxd and saw I only logged 40 movies in 2023, so I fully read more books than I watched movies. I think my takeaway is I need to be watching movies a little more often.

Just logged back into Kanopy for the first time in a while, and they've got a pretty damn good catalogue on there.

[Linea_Norway]

I just managed 50 books in 2023, so I reached the goal of this thread.

Before Christmas I borrowed a pile of books from the library, because I expected to read a whole lot. But I ended up playing a computer game, Fallout Shelter. This game is quite time consuming.

But a few days ago I finally started to read a book from the book pile. I am currently halfway in the book, and it will be my first book in the new year, in the new thread. I extended the loan on my pile of books and hope I will manage to read some more of them before I need to return them.

Books in 2023:
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
46: Landet som lovet alt (The country that promised everything) by Sidsel Wold.
47: The Retreat, by Sarah Pearse.
48: Fermented Foods, The History and Science of a Microbiological wonder, by Christine Baumgarthuber.
49: How to sell a haunted house, by Grady Hendrix.
50: The Sanatorium, by Sarah Pearse.