50 Books in 2023!

[PlanetDee]

32. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

[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

recently finished/reading
49) 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad : within a few pages I wanted to stop but kept hoping for the turn-around..and there wasn't one. The protagonist was hurting, conflicted and overall I felt pretty sad by the end of it.

50) The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

51) Stones of Ibarra by Harriet Doerr

[Morning Glory]

49. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
-nice older work by this author

50. The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
-big family saga about an African American family in the southern US. I like how the narrative alternated between past and present.

51. Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
-quick historical fantasy about medieval England. Nice twist on the mythological aspect and I really liked the positive representation of crows (they get a bad rap in just about every other book so it stood out).

52. The Dreamers by Karen Thomson Walker
-pandemic novel that was published just before the pandemic

53. Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
-family drama set in the 1930's. Not bad but a bit slow.

54. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
-People who believe their lives are not difficult enough should read this book instead of the silly one about moose hunting. There is a nice afterward about how Desmond conducted the research and reconciled going back to his middle-class life after the project.

55. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
-A sort of postmodern twist on 'murder mystery in the boarding school'. I did not like how this started but it got better.

56. The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas
-Short and engaging novel about how women were treated in 19th century France.

57. Maame by Jessica George
-novel about a young woman from an immigrant community who starts her 'adult milestones' late after spending her early 20's caring for her ill father.

58. Salt Sugar Fat: How the food giants hooked us by Michael Moss (audio book)
-interesting history of food advertising in the 20th century US

59. Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
-historical fantasy set in 19th century England, meant to be an allegory about colonialism. There were lots of details about word origins which I find interesting, but it bothered me that the characters didn't talk like they were in the 19th century.

60. The Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow (audio book)
-about how there was a lot more diversity in the power structures of ancient societies than what we were taught in school.

61. Plenitude: The new economics of true wealth by Juliet Schor (audio book)
-Describes ways to reconcile economic growth with environmental sustainability.  A bit dated now but still mostly relevant and definitely mustachian-adjacent.

62. The water will come: Rising seas, sinking cities, and the remaking of the civilized world by Jeff Goodell (audio book)
-title is self explanatory and I really liked the 'hook at the beginning.  It's good that there were perspectives from lots of parts of the world, but I got frustrated with the amount of filler (for example he describes what everyone is wearing and what the conference room he interviews them in is like). One disadvantage of audio is not being able to skim parts like that.

63. Slade House by David Mitchell
-a horror novella set in the same world as The Bone Clocks. I thought this made the ending too predictable but otherwise it wasn't bad.

64. The undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds by Michael Lewis (audio book)
-about the working relationship between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Listened on a road trip and was not able to speed it up as much as I wanted so it felt a bit slow, plus I had already read one of Kahneman's books so the information was not all surprising.

65. The inner life of animals: Love, grief, and compassion by Peter Wohlleben (audio book)
-not bad but also not a lot of information that seemed new or surprising. Listened on a road trip and chose because I thought my son would like it but he fell asleep.

66. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
-sci-fi/fantasy about people who can control earthquakes and are persecuted as a result. Loved the social-science aspects (reminded me of Ursula Leguin's books). Will continue the series.

67. The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse
-historical romance with representation of a transgender person. I have not read the previous books in this series but it works fine as a stand-alone.

[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).

Finally wrapped up two 900pp +/- books and ready for some faster-paced reads.

34.  Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson (Sep 2). I can't put my finger on how exactly, but Stephenson doesn't do as good a job at writing hard science into a novel as does Andy Weir. Still enjoyed the book, but would have benefitted from a stricter editor.

35.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Sep 4) (audio). Finally read a book by this author that seems very popular the last few years.  Good beach read.

36.  The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope (Sep 5). I felt like I needed to read something by Trollope, so now I have.  Seems like these two are often compared, so I'll just say I think I liked Middlemarch better.

[StarBright]

32. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

This was the book I was trying to remember last week! I am glad you posted!

[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

[PlanetDee]

32. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

This was the book I was trying to remember last week! I am glad you posted!

Excellent! Glad I could help. I really enjoyed it - the writing just sucked me in.

[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). A short and fast-paced read, fun for those who love to ponder ambiguities.

[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

[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

Procrastinating on work by posting that I just finished

56. Attention Span by GLoria Mark, PhD

The tagline is: Find Focus, Fight Distraction

Obviously it didn't work :)  Actually I liked it, but it also felt super corporatist, like she says an occasional digital detox is okay but you can't unplug forever because that isn't fair to your co-workers. I rolled my eyes at that. But I also appreciated the realism and she talks a lot about the mechanisms of why/when we get distracted due to brain/body responses.

[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

[Zikoris]

Next 20, favourites marked:

271. The Two of Swords, Book 21 by K.J. Parker
272. The Two of Swords, Book 22 by K.J. Parker
273. The Two of Swords, Book 23 by K.J. Parker
274. Artificial Condition my Martha Wells
275. Assassin's Price by L.E. Modesitt
276. Choices by Mercedes Lackey
277. The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard
278. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders by Aliette de Bodard
279. Witch King by Martha Wells
280. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
281. Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances by Aliette de Bodard
282. Seasons by Mercedes Lackey
283. Much Fall of Blood by Mercedes Lackey

284. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
I really liked this fun short evil Sleeping Beauty retelling. A solid work by a long-time favourite author.

285. Passages by Mercedes Lackey
286. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack
287. Endgames by L.E. Modesitt
288. The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E.M. Anderson
289. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
290. Boundaries by Mercedes Lackey

[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

Nonfiction - 13
From TBR - 41
Sequels - 22
DNF - 11

[PlanetDee]

33. Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson

[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

[Tigerpine]

1.  A Random Walk Down Wall Street (12ed, 2011) by Burton G. Malkiel
2.  Delinquent:  Inside America's Debt Machine (2022) by Elena Botella
3.  IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans:  Strategies for Taking your Money Out (14ed, 2019) by Twila Slesnick & John C. Suttle
4.  Born to Buy (2004) by Juliet B. Schor
5.  Social Security for Dummies (4ed, 2020) by Jonathan Peterson
6.  Medicare for Dummies (4ed, 2021) by Patricia Barry
7.  $2 a Day (2015) by Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
8.  One Up on Wall Street (1989) by Peter Lynch & John Rothchild (AUDIOBOOK)
9.  Castles & Moats:  Insurance, Investment, and Life Planning Simply Explained (2022) by Brian Carden
10. The Next Millionaire Next Door (2019) by Thomas J. Stanley, PhD, and Sarah Stanley Fallaw, PhD
11. This is Your Mind on Plants (2021) by Michael Pollan
12. Special Needs Trusts:  Protect Your Child's Financial Future (9ed, 2021) by Kevin Urbatsch
13. Aging with a Plan:  How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow (2ed, 2022) by Sharona Hoffman, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D
14. Fast Food Genocide:  How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It (2017) by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
15. Stop Acting Rich...And Start Living Like a Millionaire (2009) by Thomas J. Stanley, PhD
16. The Price of Everything:  Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do (2011) by Eduardo Porter
17. Coined:  The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us (2015) by Kabir Sehgal
18. The History of Money (1997) by Jack Weatherford
19. Overcoming DEBT, Achieving Financial Freedom:  8 Pillars to Build Wealth (2023) by Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez
20. Money:  The Unauthorized Biography (2014) by Felix Martin
21. The Leading Indicators:  A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World (2014) by Zachary Karabell
22. Useful Delusions:  The Power & Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain (2021) by Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler
23. Manias, Panics, and Crashes:  A History of Financial Crises (4ed, 2000) by Charles P. Kindleberger
24. We Need to Talk About Inflation:  14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years (2023) by Stephen D. King

[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

recently finished/reading
52) Built to Move: The 10 essential habits to help you move freely and live fully by Kelly & Juliet Starrett --basic sense but presented in an engaging way. Lots of practical 'mobilizations' which could be really helpful for some people. 

53) Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens (audiobook)-- I found this at the right time and thoroughly enjoyed it

54) Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer-- questioning how we can look at great art made by awful humans. Funnier than expected, also could be triggering. I'm not finished but really love her writing.

[nessness]

39. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

40. Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel

41. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

42. The Story of More by Hope Jahren

[PlanetDee]

34. Liberation Day by George Saunders

[Zikoris]

Shorter batch this time, as I'm officially at 300!

291. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
292. Network Effect by Martha Wells

293. He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker Chan
The conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, this was just an excellent read. Mythology, scheming, politics, and really interesting and multi-faceted characters. Great book.

294. Mage-Queen's Thief by Glynn Stewart
295. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
296. Shenanigans by Mercedes Lackey
297. Burdens of the Dead by Mercedes Lackey
298. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
299. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

300. The Soprano Sorceress by L.E. Modesitt
I'm loving this series following a singer-turned-sorceress teleported into fantasy world where music makes powerful magic. Can't wait to keep going with the series.

My reading challenges are going well. I'm 39 books ahead of my 365 goal, at 46/50 for my nonfiction challenge, finished my two "Complete the X Series" challenges, and down to the last seven Mercedes Lackey books on my backlog challenge. I am definitely going to do the 365, Nonfiction, and Backlog Challenges again next year - just need to pick three new authors I like with decent unread backlogs. Right now I'm thinking L.E. Modesitt and Cassandra Gannon for the first two, and I'll mull over the third spot for the last few months of the year.

[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)

JUST COMPLETED




35.  You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith (no not the actor, the poet)
Saw the Frugal Girl was reading and got it and read it in a 2 hour binge. Cried lots. Loved it despite the subject matter - she found out her husband cheated on her, and the subsequent divorce and finding herself and her voice again in the aftermath. I wonder over what the Frugal Girl has been dealing with in her own separation/divorce as she's not been real forthcoming in the why - but that is her story to tell or not and I just feel so sorry for anyone dealing with relationship issues due to my own near divorce situation.

36.  Murder on Marble Row by Victoria Thompson (Gaslight Series #4)




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.

[PlanetDee]

35. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

[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 

[Tigerpine]

1.  A Random Walk Down Wall Street (12ed, 2011) by Burton G. Malkiel
2.  Delinquent:  Inside America's Debt Machine (2022) by Elena Botella
3.  IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans:  Strategies for Taking your Money Out (14ed, 2019) by Twila Slesnick & John C. Suttle
4.  Born to Buy (2004) by Juliet B. Schor
5.  Social Security for Dummies (4ed, 2020) by Jonathan Peterson
6.  Medicare for Dummies (4ed, 2021) by Patricia Barry
7.  $2 a Day (2015) by Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
8.  One Up on Wall Street (1989) by Peter Lynch & John Rothchild (AUDIOBOOK)
9.  Castles & Moats:  Insurance, Investment, and Life Planning Simply Explained (2022) by Brian Carden
10. The Next Millionaire Next Door (2019) by Thomas J. Stanley, PhD, and Sarah Stanley Fallaw, PhD
11. This is Your Mind on Plants (2021) by Michael Pollan
12. Special Needs Trusts:  Protect Your Child's Financial Future (9ed, 2021) by Kevin Urbatsch
13. Aging with a Plan:  How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow (2ed, 2022) by Sharona Hoffman, J.D., LL.M., S.J.D
14. Fast Food Genocide:  How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It (2017) by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
15. Stop Acting Rich...And Start Living Like a Millionaire (2009) by Thomas J. Stanley, PhD
16. The Price of Everything:  Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do (2011) by Eduardo Porter
17. Coined:  The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us (2015) by Kabir Sehgal
18. The History of Money (1997) by Jack Weatherford
19. Overcoming DEBT, Achieving Financial Freedom:  8 Pillars to Build Wealth (2023) by Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez
20. Money:  The Unauthorized Biography (2014) by Felix Martin
21. The Leading Indicators:  A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World (2014) by Zachary Karabell
22. Useful Delusions:  The Power & Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain (2021) by Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler
23. Manias, Panics, and Crashes:  A History of Financial Crises (4ed, 2000) by Charles P. Kindleberger
24. We Need to Talk About Inflation:  14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years (2023) by Stephen D. King
25.  How to Speak Money:  What the Money People Say--and What It Really Means (2014) by John Lanchester

[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

[redhead84]

43. The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
44. Drowning by T.J. Newman

[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). A short and fast-paced read, fun for those who love to ponder ambiguities.

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).  Interesting but jumped around too much not only between the three cases but within time in each of the cases and was hard to keep straight.  Also in the end didn't feel like it advanced anything: the cases themselves, the field of SAR or forensics, it was just someone's story that they chose to wrap up at an arbitrary point in time.

39.  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (Sep 25).  An epic novel and I largely enjoyed the journey.

[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

recently finished/reading
55) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate : still processing..

56) Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles by Beth Pickens (audiobook) (Inspired by her last book, i decided to pick up her latest. It's good but not as urgent since the initial one was really motivated by activism)

[Serendip]

59. Outlive by Peter Attia
60. The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen

@StarBright --what did you think of these two books?

[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

[PlanetDee]

36. When We Cease To Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

[StarBright]

59. Outlive by Peter Attia
60. The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen

@StarBright --what did you think of these two books?

I REALLY enjoyed Nordic Theory of Everything. I thought it was very evenhanded in how she looks at Americans from an immigrant perspective, but there wasn't much new there other than the first person account. I enjoyed her voice a lot.

Outlive was okay. I liked it more than I thought I would. Attia distances himself from some of his earlier biohacking ideas, and the whole book seems basically reasonable. I read this one with my son who got very into the idea of longevity after watching the Chris Hemsworth series on NatGeo. Attia is in the series and I found him insufferable, but the book didn't have the same quality as the show.

[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

[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

[gatortator]

27. A marvellous light. By Freya Marske
28. A restless truth by Freya Marske
29. Poverty, by America, by Matthew Desmond.
30. The hate U give by Angie Thomas.
31. Like water for chocolate by Laura Esquivel.


Bonus books beyond library challenge

Pop1. Hot and bothered: what no one tells you about menopause and how to feel like yourself again by Jancee Dunn
Pop2. Conversations with people who hate me: 12 things I learned from talking to Internet strangers, by Dylan marron.
Pop3. They both die at the end by Adam Silvera.

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

[redhead84]

45. The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
46. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

[PlanetDee]

37. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

[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

Nonfiction - 15
From TBR - 44
Sequels - 23
DNF - 13

[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.

[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

[PlanetDee]

38. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

[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

[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). Very much like Walden Pond but for the Eastern Sierra (which she calls Sierras, which I was interested to learn because it's a much-argued point locally nowadays).

41.  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by Alice Munro (Oct 9).  I have a hard time separating the content of many of the stories (which could be painful to read) with the quality of the writing.  Really, though, a lot of the stories are not so hard to read and are set in a time and with an economic class of people that are not often written about.

[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)

Haven't updated in a hot minute, so this is quite the catch-up. According to Goodreads I'm behind schedule to hit 50 by the end of the year - reading too much Substack and not enough books! But it is fascinating how much this stuff all ties together. Secularization (Foldenyi, Robinson), car-dependency (Norton, Grabar), and the internet (Carr) turning more of us into lonely narcissists (Baker, perhaps an under-tone in Zevin). The wide-open world of possibility overwhelming us with the desire to have everything (Burgis, Mandel).

The Steinbeck is of course a fascinating historical document from any number of perspectives, including these ideas of progress and disorientation at the pace of social and technological change. Also makes me think of Asteroid City and Past Lives, which have been my favorite movies of this year thus far.

Idk if anyone else listens to the podcast Philosophize This, but he's recently done a couple fascinating episodes on the ideas of the Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han, which seem to tie a lot of these ideas together nicely, so I want to read some of his work soon. Also have more library holds following up on Dostoevsky and Hegel, and Rene Girard's book on Dostoevsky is doubly relevant since the Burgis book "Wanting" is largely about Girard's ideas.

[Zikoris]

Next 20, favourites marked:

301. Unfortunate Elements of my Anatomy by Hailey Piper
302. The Spellsong War by L.E. Modesitt
303. Darksong Rising by L.E. Modesitt
304. The Shadow Sorceress by L.E. Modesitt
305. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
306. Shadowsinger by L.E.Modesitt
307. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen

308. Starter Villain by John Scalzi
A pretty hilarious story about a person becoming a supervillain by inheritance, volcano lair and all. Great read.

309. The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
310. With a Golden Sword by Rachel Aaron
311. Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead by K.J. Parker
312. Fever by Larry Correia
313. Quantum Shadows by L.E. Modesitt

314. Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor
I loved getting back into this long-time favourite trippy afrofuturist world. Looking forward to part two next month.

315. How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves by Tristan Gooley
316. Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler
317. The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
318. The Octagonal Raven by L.E. Modesitt
319. A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper
320. A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard

I have an unbelievable amount of new releases this fall, 27 in October and November. I also bought a 36-book L.E. Modesitt Humble Bundle. Since I'm finished most of my challenges, I suspect the rest of 2023 will exclusively be new releases, Modesitt books, and the last two nonfictions for my 50-book Continuing Education challenge.

Only 45 more books to go to hit 365!

[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

Nonfiction - 15
From TBR - 48
Sequels - 23
DNF - 14

[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).  Read because I liked The Rose Code so much and this is a real-life basis for a lot of that book.

43.  The Vaster Wilds, by Lauren Groff (Oct 15) (audio).  Alternately meditative and raw/shocking. A worthwhile short read.

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).  Very informative and engaging.  Though a shorter and still mostly accurate version of this book could be two words long: Carbon dioxide.

[PlanetDee]

39. Dopesick by Beth Macy

[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)

recently finished/reading
57) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman: re-read, I enjoy this one

58) Outsider: An Old Man, A Mountain and a Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell: absorbing biography of a reclusive elderly ski legend/ultra-runner/forest-dweller.

59) Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know by Alexandra Horowitz: we adopted a dog (!) and this book is great so far..a nice examination of life with a furry family member and how they see the world

[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.