Reading Log: 2023

 A Year of Books

Books From My Past: photo by Cliff Hutson

The past year was a slow one in terms of the number of books that I read, a total of a mere fifty. This paled in comparison to local writer David Allen who's total was 63 books: 33 fiction, 30 nonfiction. However, I’m apparently in the top 1% of people in the USA as a reader of 50 books or more. So, I seem to be noteworthy after all.

The reader of this blog will already have noted that each month I post a "log" of the books I read in the prior month. What follows is a unified list:

1. "Zone One," Colson Whitehead 
2. "Dignity," Ken Layne
3. "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator," Edwin Lefèvre 
4. "The Old Gringo," Carlos Fuentes 
5. "Sea of Tranquility," Emily St. John Mandel
6. "The Plot," Jean Hanff Korelitz 
7. "Gaia," James Lovelock
8. "The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us," Dr. Lucy Jones
9. "The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less,' Christine Platt
10. "The Forgotten Man." Robert Crais
11. "Racing the Light," Robert Crais
12. "Baseline Road," Orlando Davidson
13. "Myth America," edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
14. "Rugby for Dummies," Mathew Brown, Patrick Guthrie, Greg Growden 
15. "The Unknown American Exodus," Natalie Goodrich Amato 
16. "The Moving Target," Ross Macdonald
17. "No Plan B," Lee Child and Andrew Child
18. "Picnic in the Ruins," Todd Robert Petersen 
19. "Swamp Story," Dave Barry
20. "The Drowning Pool," Ross Macdonald
21. "Soccer for Dummies," Tom Dunmore and Scott Murray
22. "Chasing Giants," Zeb Hogan and Stefan Lovgren 
23. "Clean," James Hamblin 
24. "The Empty Copper Sea," John D. MacDonald
25. "Righteous Prey," John Sandford
26. "Black in White Space," Elijah Anderson
27. "IQ," Joe Ide
28. "The Green Ripper," John D. MacDonald
29. "Free Fall in Crimson," John D. MacDonald
30. "Cinnamon Skin,"  John D. MacDonald
31. "The Lonely Silver Rain,"  John D. MacDonald
32. "Harlem Shuffle," Colson Whitehead
33. "The History of White People," Nell Irvin Painter
34. "The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings," John A. Keel
35. "Crook Manifesto," Colson Whitehead
36. "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law," Mary Roach
37. "Judgement Prey," John Sandford
38. "Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science," Carol Kaesuk Yoon
39. "War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires," Peter Turchin
40. "The Ninth Inning," A.J. Stewart
41. "Big Thaw," A.J. Stewart
42. "Devil's Backbone," A.J. Stewart
43. "Below the Belt," A.J. Stewart
44. "Making the Drop,"  A.J. Stewart
45. "Chasing the Ghost Bear: on the Trail of America's Lost Super Beast," Mike Stark
46. "The Gods of Guilt," Michael Connelly
47. "True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America," Betsy Gaines Quammen
48. "Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains," Bethany Brookshire
49. "Hondo," Louis L'Amour 
50. "Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV," Ariel Waldman 

How was your own year in reading? What are your reading goals for 2024? Comment if you like. I'm listening.