books read in 2023

1. Garth Risk Hallberg/CITY ON FIRE
2. Gabrielle Zevin/TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
3. W. Scott Poole/IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
4. Barbie Latza Nadeau/THE GODMOTHER
5. Heather Frese/THE BADDEST GIRL ON THE PLANET
6. Dolen Perkins-Valdez/TAKE MY HAND
7. Danya Kukafka/NOTES ON AN EXECUTION
8. Sujata Massey/THE SALARYMAN’S WIFE
9. Sujata Massey/THE SLEEPING DICTIONARY
10. Wanda Morris/ALL HER LITTLE SECRETS
11. Zack Jordan/THE LAST HUMAN
12. Dorothy Sayers/A STRONG POISON
13. Patrick Rothfuss/THE NAME OF THE WIND
14. Jacqueline Winspear/THE WHITE LADY
15. R.F. Kuang/BABEL
16. Ellen Raskin/THE WESTING GAME*
17. China Mieville/THE CITY AND THE CITY
18. Arnold Steinhardt/VIOLIN DREAMS
19. Jo Baker/LONGBOURN
20. Elizabeth McKenzie/THE DOG OF THE NORTH
21. Parini Schroff/THE BANDIT QUEENS
22. Bonnie Garmus/LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY
23. Dorothy Sayers/BUSMAN’S HONEYMOON
24. Annie Hartnett/RABBIT CAKE
25. THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY & SUSPENSE 2022, edited by Jess Walter and Steph Cha
26. Kristina Gaddy/WELL OF SOULS: UNCOVERING THE BANJO’S HIDDEN HISTORY
27. Eugenia Leigh/BIANCA
28. Scott Lynch/THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA
29. Jenny Jackson/PINEAPPLE STREET
30. Agatha Christie/THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD*
31. Laurie Colwin/HAPPY ALL THE TIME
32. Martin Cruz Smith/NIGHTWING
33. Gene Wolfe/THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER
34. Ursula K. LeGuin/THE DISPOSSESSED
35. John Darnielle/DEVIL HOUSE
36. Jess Walter/THE COLD MILLIONS
37. Lucy Ives/LOUDERMILK
38. Nita Prose/THE MAID
39. Mary Gordon/JOAN OF ARC
40. Wanda Morris/ANYWHERE YOU RUN
41. Valerie Perrin/FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS
42. William Faulkner/AS I LAY DYING
43. Jasper Fforde/THE EYRE AFFAIR*
44. Octavia E. Butler/PARABLE OF THE SOWER
45. Jasper Fforde/RED SIDE STORY
46. Martin Edwards/THE LIFE OF CRIME
47. Andrea Camilleri/THE VOICE OF THE VIOLIN, translated by Stephen Sartarelli
48. David Grann/KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
49. Olga Tokarczuk/DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD, translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones
50. Robert Galbraith/THE RUNNING GRAVE
51. Ed Park/SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS
52. John LeCarre/THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
53. Alice McDermott/ABSOLUTION
54. Deborah Levy/AUGUST BLUE
55. Rodolphe Kreutzer/42 ETUDES OR CAPRICES

I only physically read 16 of these books, though. The others were all audio book. It doesn’t exactly feel like I’ve been true to my vow of 52 books a year.