Books Read in 2023

 [All links for each month lead to the same summary post with brief reviews]

January: 

1. How to Connect (Mindfulness series #8) - Thich Nhat Hanh (e-book)

2. Foster - Claire Keegan (e-book)

X. Scout Stories - Nick Carr (zine)

3. McSweeney's, Issue #69

4. No Surrender: My Thirty Year War - Hiroo Onoda 

5. Space Cat Visits Venus - Ruthven Todd and Paul Galdone (e-book)

6. We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury

7. Marshmallow - Clare Turlay Newberry

8. Before and After - Andrew Shanahan

9. Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh

10. Dodsworth in London - Tim Egan

11. Call of the Wild and White Fang - Jack London

12. McSweeney's, Issue #68

13. Anatomy - Dana Schwartz

14. Life Sentences - Billy O'Callaghan

February:

15. Reunion - Fred Uhlman

16. Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes

17. Space Cat Meets Mars - Ruthven Todd and Paul Galdone (e-book)

18. A Man and His Cat #1 - Umi Sakurai

19. McSweeney's, Issue #51

20. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water - Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson, Nikkolas Smith

21. Uncharted Territory - Connie Willis

22. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain

23. The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for YA) - Ta-Nehisi Coates

24. Biased - Jennifer M. Eberhardt, PhD

25. My Monticello - Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

26. Sneakers, the Seaside Cat - Margaret Wise Brown and Anne Mortimer

27. Walk the Blue Fields - Claire Keegan (e-book)

28. American Primitive - Mary Oliver

March:

29. A Man and His Cat #2 - Umi Sakurai

30. Tales from the Inner City - Shaun Tan

31. Space Cat and the Kittens - Ruthven Todd and Paul Galdone (e-book)

32. Charlie Savage - Roddy Doyle

33. Lost & Found - Shaun Tan and John Marsden

34. Nala's World - Dean Nicholson

35. The Nanny - Evelyn Piper 

36. Spy School at Sea (Spy School #9) - Stuart Gibbs 

37. Thames Mudlarking: Searching for London's Lost Treasures - Jason Sandy and Nick Stevens

38. The Woman in the Window - A. J. Finn

39. Cicada - Shaun Tan

40. Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu

41. The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave

April:

42. Tomorrow, When the War Began - John Marsden

43. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

44. The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing Expressive People - Róisín Curé

45. A Man and His Cat #3 - Umi Sakurai

46. Tell Me the Truth About Love - W. H. Auden

47. Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost - Ed. by Gary D. Schmidt, Illus. by Henri Sorensen

48. Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly - Murray Bail

49. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain - Will Walton

50. The Cats of Roxville Station - Jean Craighead George

51. Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson, Ed. by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin, Illus by Chi Chung

52. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

53. Scout Stories #2 - Nick Carr (zine)

54. Toast - Nigel Slater

55. Cat Massage Therapy #1 - Haru Hisakawa

56. Poetry for Young People: African American Poetry, Ed. by A. Rampersad and M. Blount

57. 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Lisa Jean LaBanca Rogers

58. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis

May:

59. Wished - Lissa Evans

60. The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner

61. On the Horizon - Lois Lowry

62. The Island of Adventure - Enid Blyton

63. The United States of McSweeney's: Ten Years of Lucky Mistakes and Accidental Classics, ed. by Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz 

64. An Astronomer in Love - Antoine Laurain

65. A Man and His Cat #4 - Umi Sakurai

66. Exquisite - Suzanne Slade and Combi A. Cabrera

67. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell

68. Maizy Chen's Last Chance - Lisa Yee

69. Aliens in Underpants Save the World - Claire Freedman and Ben Court

70. And Tango Makes Three - Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, and Henry Cole

71. What About Will - Ellen Hopkins

72. Spy x Family #9 - Tatsuya Endo

73. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe - Toshikazu Kawaguchi 

June:

74. The Bright Side of Disaster - Katherine Center

75. Did I Ever Tell You This? - Sam Neill

76. The Dead of the Night - John Marsden

77. The Shadow Hero #1 - Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Lieu

78. The Expanse graphic novel - James S. A. Corey et al. 

79. The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again, Today - Hitsuji Yamada

80. The Arrival - Shaun Tan

81. The Adventures of Little Tiger - Marielle Sohier

82. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle - Matt Cain

83. Firefly: The Unification War, Part One - Greg Pak, Dan McDaid, Marcelo Costa

84. Heartstopper, Vol. 1 - Alice Oseman

July:

85. Harry and Sue - Larry Baker

86. The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

87. Heartstopper, Vol 2 - Alice Oseman

88. Eloise and the Big Parade - Lisa McClatchy

89. Firefly: The Unification War, Part Two by Greg Pak, et al. 

90. Heartstopper, Vol 3 - Alice Oseman

91. The Castle of Adventure - Enid Blyton

92. Whistling in the Dark - Lesley Kagen

93. The One - John Marrs

94. Hearstopper, Vol 4 - Alice Oseman

95. Firefly: The Unification War, Part Three by Greg Pak, et al.

August:

96. Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation - Stuart Gibbs

97. The Way of the Househusband, Vol 1 - Kousuke Oono

98. A Man and His Cat, #5 - Umi Sakurai

99. The Way of the Househusband, Vol 2 - Kousuke Oono

100. The Way of the Househusband, Vol 3 - Kousuke Oono

101. The Dirty Dozen - E. M. Nathanson

102. The River of Doubt - Candice Millard

103. Felicity - Mary Oliver

104. He Started It - Samantha Downing

105. The Duke Gets Desperate - Diana Quincy

106. The Way of the Househusband, Vol 4 - Kousuke Oono

September:

107. If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

108. The House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons

109. Breaking Away (aka, French Leave) - Anna Gavalda

110. The Chelsea Girls - Fiona Davis

111. The Mirror - Marlys Millhiser

112. The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook - Shaun Tan

113. The Little Island - Margaret Wise Brown (writing as Golden McDonald) and Leonard Weisgard

114. Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg - Ed. by Kate Benzel, Illus. by Robert Crawford

115. Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Immigrant and Artist Tyrus Wong - Julie Leung and Chris Sasaki

116. Charlie Thorne and the Lost City - Stuart Gibbs

117. What Kind of Woman - Kate Baer

118. A Man and His Cat, Vol 6 - Umi Sakurai

119. In the Lives of Puppets - T. J. Klune

120. Less - Andrew Sean Greer

October:

121. We Are the Water Protectors - Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade

122. The Borrowers - Mary Norton (#1 of The Borrowers series)

123. Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch (#2 in the Rivers of London series)

124. The Museum House Ghosts - Judith Spearing 

125. So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan

126. She's a Killer - Kirsten McDougall

127. Jane and the Final Mystery - Stephanie Barron (#15 in the Jane Austen Mystery series)

128. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 5 - Kousuke Oono

129. McSweeney's Issue 71: The Monstrous and the Terrible, ed. by Brian Evenson

130. The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, Vol. 2 - Hitsuji Yamada

131. The Premonitions Bureau - Sam Knight

November:

132. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth - Kevin Wilson

133. The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi

134. Step Ball Change - Jeanne Ray

135. The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton (#2 of The Borrowers series)

136. Fing - David Walliams

137. Spy x Family, Vol. 10 - Tatsuya Endo

138. Women Heroes of World War II: The Pacific Theater - Kathryn J. Atwood

139. The House at the End of Hope Street - Menna Van Praag

140. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo - Jill Twiss and E. G. Keller (e-book)

141. Raymie Nightingale - Kate DiCamillo

142. A Christmas Memory and Other Stories - Truman Capote

143. The Worst Noël: Hellish Holiday Tales (essays) - Various Authors

December:

144. The Little Reindeer - Nicola Killen

145. The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 6 - Kousuke Oono

146. The Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg

147. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Suess

148. The Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore

149. Spy School: Project X - Stuart Gibbs

X.   Scout Stories #3: New York Issue - Nick Carr

150. The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold - Evelyn Waugh

151. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio - Amara Lakhous

152. The View from Saturday - E. L. Konigsburg

153. The Story of the Snow Children - Sibylle von Olfers

154. Ollie's Ski Trip - Elsa Beskow

155. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

156. Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies

157. Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree - Robert Barry

158. A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote

159. 2023 Short Story Advent Calendar - Various Authors

160. What Are You Going Through - Sigrid Nunez

161. The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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