Books 2023

1. Rebecca

2. Anvils, Mallets, and Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes

3. The Captain and The Glory

4. This Time Tomorrow

5. Six Years (accidental re-read of a Harlan Coben)

7. Dark Music

8. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

9. Our Missing Hearts

10. The Cartographers

11. The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4)

12. Real Life (Taylor Brandon)

13. The Amateur Marriage

14. The Dictionary of Lost Words

15. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

16. K-Pop Revolution (K-Pop Confidential #2)

17. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

18. I Have Some Questions for You

19. Dan versus Nature

20. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

21. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

22. The Verifiers

23. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World

24. Happy Place

25. The Sense of an Ending

26. The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica's Sprint Factory

27. The Mythmakers

28. Tom Lake

29. Delicious!

30. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium #7)

31. America the Beautiful? One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Roads Most Traveled

32. The Mysteries Affairs at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)

33. Translating Myself and Others

34. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

35. Horse

Gave up: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Lonesome Traveler

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was my favorite book of the year and the one I recommended most. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Delicious! and Horse (possible recency bias) are all high on my list of enjoyable reads as well. There were a number that I struggled through this year. I wanted to like The Cartographers so much more than I did. Gator Country was a mess. The Bolt Supremacy didn't do it for me and neither did Translating Myself and Others. 

I have the sense that I could do better at picking books that I'd like before I start reading them, but as I'm making this list I really don't see that many that I could have avoided. Back to the stacks!