2023 reading list

Let’s try this again. Last year was an abysmal failure, so we’re back on the 72-book goal.

Updates

  • 1/27/23: I discontinued the TBR list last year, but am reinstating it this year because for some reason I’m feeling good. This year’s TBR is mostly rereads, in keeping with my 2023 goals. Books are listed in alphabetical order by author surname, and will be crossed out as I finish them.
  • 1/30/23: lol I keep adding new books somebody stop me

Currently Reading

  1. Heart of the Sun Warrior – Sue Lynn Tan
  2. Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo

TBR

  1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
  2. Plain Bad Heroines – Emily M. Danforth
  3. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
  4. House of Hunger – Alexis Henderson
  5. The Thirty Names of Night – Zeyn Joukhadar
  6. Demon Copperfield – Barbara Kingsolver
  7. Babel – R.F. Kuang
  8. The Poppy War – R.F. Kuang
  9. The Dragon Republic – R.F. Kuang
  10. The Burning God – R.F. Kuang
  11. Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
  12. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
  13. The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
  14. The Lost Queen – Signe Pike
  15. The Forgotten Kingdom – Signe Pike
  16. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  17. Fevered Star – Rebecca Roanhorse
  18. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab
  19. Heart of the Sun Warrior – Sue Lynn Tan
  20. Strange the Dreamer – Laini Taylor
  21. Muse of Nightmares – Laini Taylor

Finished

  1. Galatea – Madeline Miller
  2. Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) – Alexandra Petri
  3. Elektra – Jennifer Saint
  4. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  5. Three Souls – Janie Chang
  6. The Snow Hare – Paula Lichtarowicz
  7. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
  8. The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
  9. The Traitor Baru Cormorant – Seth Dickinson
  10. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
  11. Ordinary Monsters – J.M. Miro
  12. The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold
  13. Fractured Fairy Tales – A.J. Jacobs
  14. Three Plays: Once in a Lifetime/You Can’t Take it With You/The Man Who Came to Dinner – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
  15. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (B&N Special Edition) – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
  16. The Great Passage – Shion Miura
  17. SPY X FAMILY 9 – Tatsuya Endo
  18. Black Butler 31 – Yana Toboso
  19. Redwall – Brian Jacques
  20. The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
  21. Mossflower – Brian Jacques
  22. Swordheart – T. Kingfisher
  23. Mattimeo – Brian Jacques
  24. Defenestrate – Renée Branum
  25. White Chrysanthemum – Mary Lynn Bracht
  26. The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True – Sean Gibson
  27. Mariel of Redwall – Brian Jacques
  28. Salamandastron – Brian Jacques
  29. The Bone Shard Daughter – Andrea Stewart
  30. Martin the Warrior – Brian Jacques
  31. Daughter of the Moon Goddess – Sue Lynn Tan
  32. A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes

DNF

  1. The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) – DNF’d 2/3/23 on page 37. I know I asked for this for Christmas, but I really do not have the energy.
  2. Skull Water (Heinz Insu Fenkl) – DNF’d 4/28/23 on page 16. I’m slightly bored and I’ve lost all interest in the synopsis, to the point where I’m wondering why I picked it up in the first place. Of course, it doesn’t help that I tried to read it right after I finished White Chrysanthemum.