Total books read in 2023: 78
Advance reader copies: 23
Library books: 27
Owned: 18
Digital/ebook editions: 77
Physical copies: 1
Women authors: 34
Men authors: 6
Trans or nonbinary authors: 9
Queer authors: 19
POC authors: 17
Fiction: 78
Anthologies: 2
Written by Seanan McGuire: 15
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Happy New Year @bookstodon
Here are the #books I enjoyed most in 2023:
1. Becky Chambers - A Closed and Common Orbit
2. Brian Johnson - The Lives of Brian
3. Katherine Addison - The Grief of Stones
4. Edward Ashton - Mickey7
5. Martha Wells - All Systems Red
6. Helene Wecker - The Golem and the Jinni
All 54 books I read last year: https://bit.ly/cbcrypto-reads-2023
2022 README Goodreads export; sorted by reading date; I rate only books that I finish; my favorites this year are marked in yellow. Self-link: <a href="http://bit.ly/cbcrypto-reads-2022">bit.ly/cbcrypto-reads-2022</a>; Comments / suggestions: @[email protected] Book Id,Title,Author,ISBN,My R...
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November: The Lady from the Black Lagoon (Mallory O'Meara), Fat Kid Rules the World (K. L. Going)
December: The Once and Future Witches (Alix E. Harrow), Even Though I Knew the End (C. L. Polk)
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I see several posts on best books they read in 2023:
January: Nevermoor (Jessica Townsend), Light from Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki)
February: A Mirror Mended (Alix E. Harrow)
March: Into the Riverlands (Nghi Vo), The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
April: Dinosaurs Rediscovered (Michael J. Benton), The Scavenger Door (Suzanne Palmer)
May: The Thickety (J. A. White), Story Thieves (James Riley)
June: Ghost (Jason Reynolds)
July: The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead), Into the Windwracked Wilds (A. Deborah Baker), Lost in the Moment and Found (Seanan McGuire), Dracopedia Field Guide (William O'Connor), The Body (Stephen King), How It Unfolds (James S. A. Corey)
August: Pet Sematary (Stephen King)
September: Rise (Mira Grant), The Storyteller's Handbook (Elise Hurst)
October: To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Moniquill Blackgoose), The Mist (Stephen King)
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Books 73-78 read in 2023.
The last reading roundup of the year.
LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND by Seanan McGuire
MISLAID IN PARTS HALF-KNOWN by Seanan McGuire
The great 2023 Reread of the ENTIRE Wayward Children series was so much fun. I see so much of myself & my loves in these books, which is, I think, the entire point.
THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei
A Very Queer, Who Done It, Locked Room, in Deep Space. Delightful.
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Books 49-54 read in 2023.
The Up-and-Under Series by A. Deborah Baker:
• OVER THE WOODWARD WALL
• ALONG THE SALTWISE SEA
• INTO THE WINDWRACKED WILDS
• UNDER THE SMOKESTREWN SKY
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THORNHEDGE by T. Kingfisher
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SILVER NITRATE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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@bookstodon Are you in the mood to read something which plays with form and style? HANGMAN, by Maya Binyam might be for you. It is one of those novels where you both wonder what the heck is going on, and where in the world you're headed, until it all comes together. I really enjoyed it, like nothing else I've read this year. And it's under 200 pages.
My full review: This novel is deftly, smartly written, and demonstrates a paradox about the nature of life itself, which is that it is equally obscured when the lens is too wide, as it is when the lens is too close to its subject.
The story is told via the narrator's journey, but that's not really the heart of this story. The author's delivery has a funhouse, "there but not there," stretched and surreal feel. There are very real observations, however, and they are all deeply political. It's like a mashup of Kathryn Davis and Helen Oyeyemi books, with an even deeper level of social commentary.
I enjoyed the experimental nature of this short, but impactful novel.
And that ending?!? I'm so glad I didn't put it together until the last minute.
This book satisfied my need for something completely different, where the author takes chances. I will gladly read anything Maya Binyam writes.
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Book Read in 2023 #43 “Ex Libris “ by Matt Madden .
An intriguing and interesting metaphysical examination of the power of comics.
The unseen narrator finds themselves holed up in a room with a single bookcase full of comics and begins a journey of discovery. Each story they read speaks to them on different levels as they slowly come to the realization that to move on they must become their own storyteller.
Book no. 28: The Readers' Room, by Antoine Laurain, translated from French by Jane Aitken, Emily Boyce & Polly Mackintosh.
A great Parisian literary mystery!
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Book no 27: A Town Called Solace, by Mary Lawson.
Story set in small town in Canada, told from the perspective of a young girl, whose sister is missing, her elderly neighbour, who is in hospital, and the man living in her house. Enjoyed it very much. Shout out to Moses the cat!
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