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