Books I Read in 2023

Seventy seven books in 2023!
I don’t know if this is a lifetime record, but this is a record since I’ve started keeping track. So many amazing books—no, I’m not choosing favorites. I don’t even know if I can whittle the list down to top 5 (5 come from the 25 Best Historical Fiction Books of All Time).

Suffice it to say, I enjoy reading. And I’m especially grateful for the room in my life for lots of reading!

1. When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
2. The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
3. Bible in 52 Weeks by Dr Kimberly D. Moore
4. My (not so) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
5. A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
6. Shadows of Pecan Hollow by Caroline Frost
7. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
8. Bing by Charles Thompson
9. The Best Seller: Get Unstuck, Grow Relationships, Gain Access by Katie Bowline and Bill Reichardt
10. West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
11. The Vibrant Years by Sonali Dev
12. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
13. Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin
14. 747 by Joe Sutter
15. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
16. The Direction of the Wind by Mansi Shah
17. Writer in Residence by Paul Combs
18. The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali
19. The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
20. The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman
21. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl González
22. The Fires by Sigridur Hagalin Bjornsdottir
23. The Last Word by Paul Combs
24. Dewey Decimated by Allison Brook
25. Call and Response by Gothatone Moeng
26. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
27. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
28. The Best of Me by Sharon Sala
29. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
30. Where Waters Meet by Zhang Ling
31. Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
32. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
33. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
34. Engines of Change by Paul Ingrassia
35. How To Be an American Wife by Margaret Dilloway
36. The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
37. What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
38. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
39. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
40. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
41. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
42. The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor
43. The Anatomy of Love by Dana Schwartz
44. The Color of Family by Jerry McGill
45. Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
46. Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me by Jerry McGill
47. The Red Tent by Anita Diamanté
48. Prince: All the Songs by Benoît Clerc
49. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
50. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
51. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
52. The Light on Farallon Island by Jen Wheeler
53. Ten Ways to Not Commit Suicide by Darryl McDaniels
54. Time’s Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
55. Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
56. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
57. In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende
58. Postcard by Anne Berest
59. Centennial by James A. Michener
60. The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
61. The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
62. Broadway Butterfly by Sara Divello
63. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
64. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
65. The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
66. Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
67. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
68. The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
69. Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
70. The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
71. Don’t Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino
72. 13 Days The Pythagoras Theorem by LA Starks
73. Molokai by Alan Brennert
74. The French Chef in America by Alex Prud’homme
75. North Woods by Daniel Mason
76. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
77. Go As A River by Shelley Read