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Favorite books in 2023

My favorite reads this year, in the order I read them:

Nonfiction

  • The Perfectionists, by Simon Winchester
  • The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder
  • First, by Evan Thomas
  • All the President’s Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  • The River of Doubt, by Candice Millard
  • Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Convictions, by John Kroger
  • Indigenous Continent, by Pekka Hämäläinen
  • When the Heavens Went on Sale, by Ashlee Vance
  • Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood, by W. Paul Reeve
  • Leadership, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Avid Reader, by Robert Gottlieb
  • Ways of Being, by James Bridle
  • In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson

Fiction

  • Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Justice of Kings, by Richard Swan
  • The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
  • Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  • The Will of the Many, by James Islington
  • In the Woods, by Tana French
  • Blood Over Bright Haven, by M. L. Wang
  • Cage of Souls, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Memories of Ice, by Steven Erikson
  • The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, by Victoria Goddard
  • Chosen, by Benedict Jacka
  • Made Things, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Favorite books in 2022

My favorite reads last year, in the order I read them (and I won’t go into detail on these because I’ve already written about them in earlier posts):

Nonfiction

  • The Golden Thread, by Kassia St. Clair
  • The Cubans, by Anthony DePalma
  • The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber & David Wengrow
  • Stretching the Heavens, by Terryl L. Givens
  • This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein
  • The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf
  • The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Plantagenets, by Dan Jones
  • How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith
  • Human Errors, by Nathan H. Lents
  • I Wish I’d Been There, edited by Byron Hollinshead
  • Extra Life, by Steven Johnson

Fiction

  • Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark
  • Network Effect, by Martha Wells
  • The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
  • The Hands of the Emperor, by Victoria Goddard
  • Babel, by R. F. Kuang
  • Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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