Book List 2023
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Books I've Read (with date finished)
1. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, 337pp (Jan 2) [translated from Swedish]. (started in 2022).
2. Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman, 110pp (Jan 4).
3. Dragonbreath: The Frozen Menace by Ursula Vernon, 201pp (Jan 9) [Dragonbreath 11].
4.Golden Age and Other Stories by Naomi Novik, 124pp (Jan 12).
5.Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, c.304pp (Jan 22).
6.Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240pp (Jan 28).
7.The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, 488pp (Jan 29).[World of Five Gods]
8. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad, 345pp (Feb 7).
9.Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks, 207pp (Feb 7).
10.The Years by Annie Ernaux, c. 240pp (Feb 16).
11.What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, 154pp (Feb 21) [Rivers of London novella].
12. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, 388pp (Mar 5) [Booker Prize].
13.Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold, 448pp (Mar 15) [Hugo book] [World of Five Gods].
14.Spare by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, 407pp (Mar 23).
15.The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch, 118pp (Mar 28) [Rivers of London novella]
16.Exhalation by Ted Chiang, 340pp (Apr 2).
17.BFG by Roald Dahl, 208pp (Apr 10).
18.The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary, 381pp (Apr 20).
19.The Big Time by Fritz Leiber, 118pp (Apr 21).[Hugo book]
20.The Twits by Roald Dahl, 76pp (May 3).
21.My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman, 365pp (May 7) [translated from Swedish].
22.Good Inside by Becky Kennedy, 298pp (May 12).
23.Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dalh, 47pp (May 17).
24.She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, 411pp (May 25).
25.The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel, 273pp (June 2).
26.Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, 98pp (Jun 4) [translated from Swedish].
27.Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer by Megan McDonald, 186pp (Jun 5).
28. The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier, 391pp (Jun 13) [translated from French].
29.Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh, 369pp (Jun 15).
30.Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, 448pp (Jul 2) [Hugo book].
31.Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, 355pp (Jul 6).
32.Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me by Bill Hayes, 290pp (Jul 9).
33.The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch, 292pp (Jul 22) [Rivers of London 6].
34.Teckla by Steven Brust, 153pp (Jul 25) [Taltos series 3]
35.Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman, 102pp (Jul 27) [translated from Swedish].
36. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 138pp (Aug 2).
37.Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith, 183pp (Aug 9).
38.Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh, 105pp (Aug 14).
39.Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, 182pp (Aug 19).
40.A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark, 43pp (Aug 29).
41.The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough, 781pp (Sept 5) [Masters of Rome 1].
42. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley, 178pp (Sept 20).
43. A Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold, 419pp (Sept 26). [World of Five Gods]
44. Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, 233pp (Sept 27).
45. Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski, 525pp (Oct 11) [Witcher Book 3 of 5] [translated from Polish to Russian, read in Russian].
46.Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel, 133pp (Oct 13).
47. Making it So: a memoir by Patrick Stewart, 443pp (Oct 25).
48.Translation State by Anne Leckie, 421pp (Nov 1)
49.Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon), 240pp (Nov 8) [Hugo book].
50.The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, 500pp (Nov 28) [Hugo book].
51.System Collapse by Martha Wells, 243pp (Dec 6) [Murderbot 7]
52.Лисьи Броды [Fox Fords] by Anna Starobinets, 1070pp (Dec 23) [in Russian].