The 100 Books of 2023
As a writer, I feel the "other half" of the craft, reading, is also important. I set out to read 100 books a year and (huzzah!) achieved that goal this year. I also have an account over on goodreads. Here's the top 15 books of 2023, followed by the complete list of the 100+ books I read this year:
***Travis Top 15 of 2023***
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
Radical Remission - Kelly A. Turner
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
Small Mercies - Dennis Lehane
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Written in Bone - Sue Black
Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
The Suitcase - Lauren Housman & Deborah Taussig-Boehner
Honorable Mention Childhood Rereads
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
January 2023
The Last Flight - Julie Clark
Home Stretch - Graham Norton
Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
A Long Walk to Water - Linda Sue Park
Moon Lake - Joe R. Lansdale
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
The Nature of Oaks - Douglas W. Tallamy
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Gulp - Mary Roach
Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
The Witches of Gloucester - Lisabet Sarai
Hombre - Elmore Leonard
The Dialogues of Plato - Plato
The Immense Journey - Loren Eisley
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
February 2023
Demon Dentist - David Walliams
What the Ear Hears - Richard Mainwaring
The Shootist - Glendon Swarthout
I'm Glad My Mom Died - by Jennette McCurdy
Get Rich or Get Lucky - Max Nowaz
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
The Utterly Uninteresting ... Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant - Drew Hayes
Elemental - Tim James
March 2023
Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
When to Rob a Bank - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
The Suitcase - Lauren Housman & Deborah Taussig-Boehner
Antigone - Jean Anouilh (play)
On Cussing - Katherine Dunn (essay)
April 2023
Even Though I Knew the End - C.L. Polk
The Stranger in the Woods - Michael Finkel
A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
Vacationland - John Hodgman
Written in Bone - Sue Black
Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
Tanqueray - Stephanie Johnson, Brandon Stanton
Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson
Darwin Comes to Town - Menno Schilthuizen
May 2023
Tastes Like War - Grace M. Cho
Rumors of Spring - Richard Grant
Way Station - Clifford D. Simak
Stuart Little - E.B. White
The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler
A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
Witchmark - C.L. Polk
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
June 2023
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
Small Mercies - Dennis Lehane
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs - Caitlin Doughty
The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
The Ride of Her Life - Elizabeth Letts
The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
Dinosaurs Before Dark - Mary Pope Osborne
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
July 2023
You Let Me In - Camilla Bruce
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 3: Kill Denji (graphic novel)
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 2: Chainsaw vs. Bat (graphic novel)
The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay
Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw (graphic novel)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - John le Carré
The Measure - Nikki Erlick
August 2023
The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston
Smart Sex - Emily Morse
Radical Remission - Kelly A. Turner
The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan
Chainsaw Man, Vol. 4: The Gun is Mightier - Tatsuki Fujimoto (graphic novel)
September 2023
The Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
The President's Brain is Missing - John Scalzi
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
October 2023
Buddha Boy - Kathe Koja
Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv
The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher
Gathering Moss - Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid
Happiness for Beginners - Katherine Center
The Strange Museum: 50-Word Stories - Ran Walker
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
November 2023
Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan
The Salt Grows Heavy - Cassandra Khaw
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
Smoke City - Keith Rosson
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Start with Why - Simon Sinek
The Adventures of Mabel - Harry Thurston Peck
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (poetry)
The Killer Omnibus (#1- 5) - Matz /Luc Jacamon (graphic novel)
December 2023
Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree
Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Foster - Claire Keegan
Writers and Lovers - Lily King
Antarctica - Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
A Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow
Cultish - Amanda Montell
Book Lovers - Emily Henry
A Fine Dark Line - Joe R. Lansdale
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