Books I Read in 2023 (Updated)

  • Sun, Dec 31, 2023
  • 4 Min Read
  1. Bad Actors, by Mick Herron
  2. Count Your Lucky Stars, by Alexandra Bellefleur
  3. Hell Yeah or No, by Derek Sivers
  4. Written in the Stars, by Alexandra Bellefleur
  5. Trailed, by Kathryn Miles
  6. Decluttering at the Speed of Life, by Dana K. White
  7. The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm (re-read)
  8. The Private Patient, by PD James (re-read)
  9. Skip the Line, by James Altucher
  10. No Man’s Land, by Riley Smith
  11. Vibrator Nation, by Lynn Comella
  12. Roller Girl, by Vanessa North
  13. Sex by Design, by Betty Dodson
  14. Buzz, by Hallie Lieberman
  15. Big Death, Little Death, by Susie Bright
  16. Season of the Witch, by David Talbot
  17. Sierra City, by Gerri Hill
  18. Cowboys and Kisses, by Karin Kallmaker
  19. Comfort and Joy, by Karin Kallmaker
  20. Watergate, by Garrett M. Graff
  21. Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon
  22. Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon
  23. The More of Less, by Joshua Becker
  24. Peril, by Bob Woodward
  25. A Swing at Love, by Harper Bliss
  26. Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover, by Ruth Marcus
  27. Agent Twister, by Philip Augur and Keely Winston
  28. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America, by Krista Burton
  29. Nine Black Robes, by Joan Biskupic
  30. The Pathless Path, by Paul Millerd
  31. Behind the PIne Curtain, by Gerri Hill
  32. In a Midnight Wood, by Ellen Hart
  33. Twisted at the Root, by Ellen Hart
  34. Ceremonies, by Essex Hemphill (re-read)
  35. Diving Into the Wreck, by Adrienne Rich (re-read)
  36. The Power of Adrienne Rich, by Hilary Holiday (re-read)
  37. Written on the Body, by Jeannette Winterson (re-read)
  38. Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop, by Thomas Travisoro
  39. Loving Robert Lowell, by Sandra Hochman
  40. Traffic, by Ben Smith
  41. Simply the Best, by Karin Kallmaker
  42. Touchwood, by Karen Kallmaker
  43. Portrait of a Thief, by Grace D. Li
  44. Lesbian Death, by Mairead Sullivan
  45. Burn It Down, by Maureen Ryan
  46. The Passage of Power, by Robert Caro
  47. Love & Other Disasters, by Anita Kelly
  48. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser
  49. Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (Audible version)
  50. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier
  51. Austral, by Carlos Fonseca
  52. Vintage Contemporaries, by Dan Kois
  53. Bad Summer People, by Emma Rosenblum
  54. The One Thing, by Gary Keller w/Jay Papasan
  55. Companion Piece, by Ali Smith
  56. Homegrown, by Jeffrey Toobin
  57. American Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson
  58. We Set the Night on Fire, by Martha Shelley
  59. There are the Dawning, by Barbara J. Love
  60. SPQR, by Mary Beard
  61. Becoming Kim Jong Un, by Jung H. Pak
  62. Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World, by John Walsh
  63. A Thread of Violence, by Mark O’Connell
  64. Break-Up: How Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon Went to War, by David Clegg and Kieran Andrews
  65. Country of the Blind, by Christopher Brookmyre
  66. The Book of Evidence, by John Banville (re-read)
  67. The Cold, Cold, Ground, by Adrian McKinty
  68. The Darien Disaster, by John Prebble
  69. I Hear the Sirens in the Street, by Adrian McKinty
  70. The Art of the Idea, by John Hunt
  71. In the Morning I’ll be Gone, by Adrian McKinty
  72. Gun Street Girl, by Adrian McKinty
  73. Rain Dogs, by Adrian McKinty
  74. A True Account, by Katherine Howe
  75. Astor, by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
  76. Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly, by Adrian McKinty
  77. The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron
  78. The Fall: The End of Fox News, by Michael Wolff
  79. Past Lying, by Val McDermid
  80. The Falls, by Ian Rankin
  81. The Detective Up Late, by Adrian McKinty
  82. Lost & Hound, by Rita Mae Brown
  83. Salvation of a Saint, by Keigo Higashino
  84. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Company, by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
  85. One Summer Night, by Gerri Hill
  86. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America, by Roxanna Asgarian
  87. The Vanity Fair Diaries, 1986-1993, by Tina Brown
  88. A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
  89. The Secret Life of John le Carré, by Adam Sisman
  90. The Pigeon Tunnel, by John le Carré
  91. American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton, by Victoria Houseman
  92. After Sappho, by Selby Wynn Schwartz
  93. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wilde Rise & Staggering Fall, by Zeke Faux
  94. The Night Brother, by Rosie Garland
  95. Northern Spy, by Flynn Berry
  96. A Life of My Own, by Claire Tomalin
  97. The Possibility of Life, by Jaime Green (read in October, but inexplicably left off the earlier list)