I am under the impression that blogs are really not a thing anymore, as evidenced by my complete neglect of this one. However, I still like to list my reading accomplishments here because Goodreads is a cesspool of slime and hate second only to the rest of the internet.
Nevertheless, here are the many books I read in 2023. 77 new record. Pretty eclectic list all told.
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy
Pure Meditation, Pema Chodron
The Man Who Would be King and other stories, Rudyard Kipling
A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny
5
The Cruelest Month, Louise Penny
Live Wire, Harlan Coben
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Of Boys and Men, Richard V. Reeves
A Rule Against Murder, Louise Penny
10
Origins of the Gods, Andrew Collins and Gregory L. Little, Ed.D.
Home, Harlan Coben
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny
Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy
15
Bury Your Dead, Louise Penny
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich
Suspect, Robert Crais
20
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
It’s Okay to Be Angry at Capitalism, Bernie Sanders
Iron Gold, Pierce Brown
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow
25
Activities of Daily Living, Lisa Hsiao Chen
This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
Back to the Garden, Laurie R. King
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
30
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming
The Quantum and the Lotus, Matthieu Ricard & Trinh Quan Thuan
The Maltese Iguana, Tim Dorsey
35
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Fatal Journey, Peter. C. Mancall
Dr. No, Ian Fleming
Diamond of Jeru, Louis L’Amour
The Idea, Erik Bork
40
A Man Called Trent, Louis L’Amour
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
Thunderball, Ian Fleming
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Robert A. Heinlein
The Wager, David Grann
45
Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor E Frankl
Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brian
Post Captain, Patrick O’Brian
The Rider of the Lost Creek, Louis L’Amour
How I Write, Janet Evanovich, Ina Yolof
50
The Dark Sphere, Johnny Worthen
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
Now is Not the Time to Panic, Kevin Wilson
Dark Age, Pierce Brown
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
55
Winter Counts, David Heska Wanbli Weiden
A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny
The Man From the Broken Hills, Louis L’Amour
Tenth of December, George Saunders
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
60
Life after Life, Kate Atkinson
When Race Trumps Merit, Heather Mac Donald
HMS Surprise, Patrick O’Brian
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft
Stranger in a Strangle Land, Robert A. Heinlein
65
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
The Fifth Agreement, Don Miguel Ruiz
Total Meditation, Deepak Chopra, M.D.
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
Story Genius: Lisa Cron
70
Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
Gilgamesh, Stephen Mitchell
Trans, Helen Joyce
Sackett’s Land, Louis L’Amour
Beowulf, Stephen Mitchell
75
Last of the Breed, Louis L’Amour
All Systems Red, Martha Wells
77
I'll consider using this blog more in 2024. Or not. I am nothing if not a lazy man. I will certainly continue to enjoy reading.
