Jill’s 2023 Book list

  1. The Color of Air, Gail Tsukiyama
  2. The Hour of the Star, Clairce Lispector
  3. Yes, Please, Amy Poehler
  4. The Constant Rabbit, Jasper Fforde
  5. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
  6. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
  7. Verity, Colleen Hoover
  8. Kindred, Octavia E. Butler (Bethany’s Review)
  9. Bossypants, Tina Fey*
  10. I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette McCurdy
  11. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Uluo*
  12. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr*
  13. Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner*
  14. Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas*
  15. Siren Queen, Nghi Vo
  16. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline*
  17. Booth, Karen Joy Fowler*
  18. Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple*
  19. Intuition, Allegra Goodman
  20. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo*
  21. The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li*
  22. Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi*
  23. The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart*
  24. A Girl is a Body of Water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi*
  25. Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney*
  26. Hestia Strikes A Match, Christine Grillo*
  27. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke*
  28. Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures, Connie Wang
  29. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas*
  30. A Partial History of Lost Causes, Jennifer duBois
  31. Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas*
  32. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
  33. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
  34. Oreo, Fran Ross
  35. Happy Place, Emily Henry*
  36. A Deadly Education: Lesson One of The Scholomance, Naomi Novik*
  37. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity, Devon Price*
  38. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive when the World Overwhelms You, Elaine Aron
  39. J, Howard Jacobson
  40. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (Outlander #8), Diana Gabaldon*
  41. The Bone Shard Emperor, Andrea Stewart*
  42. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver*
  43. The Last Graduate: Lesson Two of The Scholomance, Naomi Novik*
  44. Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
  45. The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of The Scholomance, Naomi Novik*
  46. Demons of Good and Evil (The Hollows #17), Kim Harrison
  47. The Beggar Maid, Alice Munro
  48. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
  49. The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
  50. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence, Becky Cooper*
  51. Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, Megan Rosenbloom*
  52. Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh
  53. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley*
  54. Beach Read, Emily Henry*
  55. Tom Lake, Ann Patchett*
  56. Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls
  57. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
  58. Small Angels, Lauren Owen*
  59. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, Susan Orlean*
  60. Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam*
  61. The Sun Down Motel, Simone St. James*
  62. Babel, R.F. Kuang
  63. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt*
  64. Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov*
  65. This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub*
  66. Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson*
  67. Pageboy: A Memoir, Elliot Page*
  68. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett*
  69. The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand*

2023 Audiobooks

  1. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver – ended up reading for real

Note: any book marked with a * in the above list was a “multi-media reading experience,” which means I read it with my eyes and also my ears.