Books read in 2023

[sophia_sol]

WHAT, how is it already the next year, I'm not ready to be done with my 2023 reading list! This year I read 73 books, which is my lowest total since 2016. I got so distracted by just thinking about Heaven Official's Blessing constantly that I did hardly any reading of anything else for the last several months of the year!

If you want to ask me anything about any of the books I read, please feel free! I'm always happy to talk books!!

Italics indicate a reread. Each book is rated from one to five stars according to my personal reaction to it, rather than my judgement of its objective worth.


January

***** A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf - nf

*** Wild Rain, by Beverly Jenkins

**** The Desert is Fertile, by Hélder Câmara, translated by Dinah Livingstone - nf

***** When the Angels Left the Old Country, by Sacha Lamb

*** Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix, by Anna-Marie McLemore

*** Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski - nf

**** Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe - nf

**** Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your TIme, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, by Christy Harrison - nf

***** How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, by Jason Stanley - nf

*** The Twelve Points of Caleb Canto, by Sam Starbuck

*** Spellcast, by Barbara Ashford

**** Defekt, by Nino Cipri 


February

***** Point of Hopes, by Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett

*** Rabbit Chase, by Elizabeth LaPensée

*** Shelterbelts, by Jonathan Dyck

*** A Restless Truth, by Freya Marske


March

**** Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay, by Merilyn Simonds - nf

*** Volume 1 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

**** The Perilous Gard, by Elizabeth Marie Pope

*** Spear, by Nicola Griffith.

**** How Long ‘til Black Future Month?, by N. K. Jemisin

*** Hello, Melancholic!, by Ohsawa Yayoi

**** The Monsters We Defy, by Leslye Penelope


April

**** The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated and edited by Jack Zipes

*** The Stand-In, by Lily Chu

*** A Half-Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys

**** Volume 2 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

**** A Garter as a Lesser Gift, by Aster Glenn Gray

**** Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

**** Magical Boy, Volume 1, by The Kao

**** Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, by Chuck Tingle

*** Welcome to St Hell, by Lewis Hancox - nf

***** The Iron Children, by Rebecca Fraimow

**** A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird, by Rosemary Mosco – nf


May

*** Volume 3 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

*** Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**** We Ride Upon Sticks, by Quan Barry

**** Surviving Romance, Season 1, by Lee Yone

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 1, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu


June

**** Volume 4 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

**** Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh

**** Enemies to Lovers, by Aster Glenn Gray

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 2, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu


July

***** To Shape A Dragon’s Breath, by Moniquill Blackgoose

**** Volume 1 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

**** Under Fortunate Stars, by Ren Hutchings

**** Honeytrap, by Aster Glenn Gray

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, Volume 1, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

*** Bloodmarked, by Tracy Deonn


August

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 3, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

**** Volume 2 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 4, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 5, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

** The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal

***** The Sleeping Soldier, by Aster Glenn Gray

**** The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, by Desmond Cole – nf

**** Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher


September

*** The Lies of the Ajungo, by Moses Ose Utomi

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 1, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 2, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 3, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu


October

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 4, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

**** Volume 3 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

**** Volume 4 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 5, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 6, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

*** The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, volume 1, by Kazuki Irodori ; original story, Yatsuki Wakatsu


November

**** Volume 5 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 7, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 8, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu


December

**** The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, volume 2, by Kazuki Irodori ; original story, Yatsuki Wakatsu

**** Volume 1 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 2, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Comments

[rigormorphis]

Opening a bunch of tabs and making a BUNCH of notes for my TBR list, thank you for the indirect recs. <3

[sophia_sol]

muahahaha my plan is WORKING <3 I hope you enjoy the books you try!

[chestnut_pod]

Oh geez, was when we talked about Self-Made Boys already all the way back in the beginning of last year? Oy!

What does "nf" stand for here?

[sophia_sol]

time is so meaningless!!!! tbh january 2023 feels like a lifetime ago in some ways and yet at the same time didn't I read those books just the other week?

ah, nf means nonfiction, sorry!

[chestnut_pod]

Oh, thanks! Ha, makes total sense now I look at it.