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 (reading now)*
  12. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr*
  13. Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner*
  14. Our Tragic Universe, Scarlett Thomas (reading now)
  15. Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas*
  16. Siren Queen, Nghi Vo
  17. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline*
  18. Booth, Karen Joy Fowler*
  19. Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple*
  20. Intuition, Allegra Goodman
  21. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo*
  22. The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li*
  23. Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi*
  24. The Bone Shard Daughter, Andrea Stewart*
  25. A Girl is a Body of Water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi*
  26. Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney*
  27. Hestia Strikes A Match, Christine Grillo*
  28. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke*
  29. Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures, Connie Wang
  30. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas*
  31. A Partial History of Lost Causes, Jennifer duBois
  32. Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas*
  33. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
  34. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
  35. Oreo, Fran Ross
  36. Happy Place, Emily Henry*
  37. A Deadly Education: Lesson One of The Scholomance, Naomi Novik*
  38. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity, Devon Price*
  39. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive when the World Overwhelms You, Elaine Aron
  40. J, Howard Jacobson
  41. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (Outlander #8), Diana Gabaldon*
  42. The Bone Shard Emperor, Andrea Stewart*
  43. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver*
  44. The Last Graduate: Lesson Two of The Scholomance, Naomi Novik*
  45. Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
  46. The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of The Scholomance, Naomi Novik*
  47. Demons of Good and Evil (The Hollows #17), Kim Harrison
  48. The Beggar Maid, Alice Munro (reading now)
  49. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
  50. The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
  51. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence, Becky Cooper*
  52. Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, Megan Rosenbloom*
  53. Solutions and Other Problems, Allie Brosh
  54. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley*
  55. Beach Read, Emily Henry*
  56. Tom Lake, Ann Patchett*
  57. Mrs. Caliban, Rachel Ingalls
  58. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
  59. Small Angels, Lauren Owen*
  60. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, Susan Orlean*
  61. Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam*
  62. The Sun Down Motel, Simone St. James*
  63. Babel, R.F. Kuang
  64. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt*
  65. Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov*
  66. This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub*
  67. Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson*
  68. Pageboy: A Memoir, Elliot Page*
  69. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett*
  70. 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.