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
- 7/24/23: I’m throwing in the towel for the R.F. Kuang books this year. I just really am not feeling them right now, particularly as the Poppy War series was a frustrating read the first time. This is going to be a next-year project. And I feel like it’s ridiculous to be saying this when we’re still only halfway through the year, but I have added The Count of Monte Cristo to the TBR out of sheer optimism. We’ll see if I actually have time for it this year or not.
Currently Reading
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins
- Doomwyte – Brian Jacques
TBR
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Plain Bad Heroines – Emily M. DanforthNeverwhere – Neil Gaiman- House of Hunger – Alexis Henderson
- Redwall series – Brian Jacques
- Demon Copperfield – Barbara Kingsolver
- Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
Hamnet – Maggie O’FarrellThe Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell- The Lost Queen – Signe Pike
- The Forgotten Kingdom – Signe Pike
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil GaimanFevered Star – Rebecca RoanhorseThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. SchwabHeart of the Sun Warrior – Sue Lynn Tan- Strange the Dreamer – Laini Taylor
- Muse of Nightmares – Laini Taylor
The Ghost Bride – Yangsze ChooThe Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Finished
- Galatea – Madeline Miller
- Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) – Alexandra Petri
- Elektra – Jennifer Saint
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- Three Souls – Janie Chang
- The Snow Hare – Paula Lichtarowicz
- Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
- The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant – Seth Dickinson
- Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
- Ordinary Monsters – J.M. Miro
- The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Fractured Fairy Tales – A.J. Jacobs
- 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
- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (B&N Special Edition) – Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- The Great Passage – Shion Miura
- SPY X FAMILY 9 – Tatsuya Endo
- Black Butler 31 – Yana Toboso
- Redwall – Brian Jacques
- The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
- Mossflower – Brian Jacques
- Swordheart – T. Kingfisher
- Mattimeo – Brian Jacques
- Defenestrate – Renée Branum
- White Chrysanthemum – Mary Lynn Bracht
- The Part About the Dragon Was (Mostly) True – Sean Gibson
- Mariel of Redwall – Brian Jacques
- Salamandastron – Brian Jacques
- The Bone Shard Daughter – Andrea Stewart
- Martin the Warrior – Brian Jacques
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess – Sue Lynn Tan
- A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes
- Heart of the Sun Warrior – Sue Lynn Tan
- The Bellmaker – Brian Jacques
- Outcast of Redwall – Brian Jacques
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab
- The Bone Shard Emperor – Andrea Stewart
- Pearls of Lutra – Brian Jacques
- Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America – Audrey Clare Farley
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- The Long Patrol – Brian Jacques
- Nimona – ND Stevenson
- The Bone Shard War – Andrea Stewart
- Black Sun – Rebecca Roanhorse
- Marlfox – Brian Jacques
- Fevered Star – Rebecca Roanhorse
- The Legend of Luke – Brian Jacques
- Lord Brocktree – Brian Jacques
- Taggerung – Brian Jacques
- Chobits 1 – CLAMP
- The Ghost Bride – Yangsze Choo
- Chobits 2 – CLAMP
- Chobits 3 – CLAMP
- Triss – Brian Jacques
- Plain Bad Heroines – Emily M. Danforth
- Chobits 4 – CLAMP
- Chobits 5 – CLAMP
- Chobits 6 – CLAMP
- Chobits 7 – CLAMP
- Chobits 8 – CLAMP
- Loamhedge – Brian Jacques
- The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo
- Rakkety Tam – Brian Jacques
- Odder – Katherine Applegate
- High Rhulain – Brian Jacques
- Eulalia! – Brian Jacques
- I Await the Devil’s Coming – Mary MacLane
DNF
- 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.
- 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.
- Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo) – DNF’d 6/3/23 on page 58. I was thinking I’d at least try to make it to page 100, but then I peeked ahead to see if it would be worth even trying. It wasn’t. The writing is good and the story and world are interesting, so I’m not really sure why I have been so reluctant to read this book, though it’s probably because I don’t like Kaz much.