2023 reading
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white_hartBooks read in 2023:
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter - Alexis Hall
Till Human Voices Wake Us - Victoria Goddard
Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults - Dr Luke Beardon
The Flow - Amy-Jane Beer
O Human Star - Blue Delliquanti
The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Saga Compendium 1 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Stargazy Pie - Victoria Goddard
Castle Charming - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Castle Ever After - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Bee Sting Cake - Victoria Goddard
To the Chapel Perilous - Naomi Mitchison
How Long 'Til Black Future Month - N.K. Jemisin
Whiskeyjack - Victoria Goddard
The Spare Man - Mary Robinette Kowal
Hani and Ishu's Guide To Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
The Thief on the Winged Horse - Kate Mascarenhas
Blackcurrant Fool - Victoria Goddard
Even Though I Knew The End - C.L. Polk
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows
To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers
Dangerous Flames - Stephanie Burgis
Love-in-a-Mist - Victoria Goddard
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
Enchanted Glass - Diana Wynne Jones
Half a Soul - Olivia Atwater
Death: The High Cost of Living - Neil Gaiman
Plum Duff - Victoria Goddard
Miranda in Milan - Katharine Duckett
The Outskirter's Secret - Rosemary Kirstein
Power and Majesty - Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Saint of the Bookstore - Victoria Goddard
Across a Field of Starlight - Blue Delliquanti
The Green Man's Silence - Juliet E. McKenna
Station Eternity - Mur Lafferty
Enchantment - Katherine May
The Dyke and the Dybbuk - Ellen Galford
Flight of Magpies - K.J. Charles
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Have Spirit, Will Duchess - Tansy Rayner Roberts
One Woman Walks Wales - Ursula Martin
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Bride of the Blue Wind - Victoria Goddard
Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity - Devon Price
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorne
The Shattered City - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Into the Riverlands - Nghi Vo
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
Something Spectacular - Alexis Hall
Paladin's Grace - T Kingfisher
Derring-do For Beginners - Victoria Goddard
The Iron Children - Rebecca Fraimow
Glitterland - Alexis Hall
Eating Dormice - Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Moon-spinners - Mary Stewart
Management Lessons from Game of Thrones - Fiona Moore
The Outside - Ada Hoffmann
The Lord Sorcier - Olivia Atwater
Rosemary and Rue - Seanan McGuire
Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Warrior of the Third Veil - Victoria Goddard
Adrift - Helen Babbs
The Four Profound Weaves - R.B. Lemberg
The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard
Féonie and the Islander Regalia - Victoria Goddard
Petty Treasons - Victoria Goddard
A Restless Truth - Freya Marske
At the Feet of the Sun - Victoria Goddard
Rose Knot - Kari Sperring
Witch King - Martha Wells
Redressed - Cat Sebastian
Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
Clary Sage - Victoria Goddard
Reign of Beasts - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Claws and Contrivances - Stephanie Burgis
Diplomatic Immunity - Lois McMaster Bujold
Death Among the Dons - Janet Neel
Twelve Percent Dread - Emily McGovern
Findings - Kathleen Jamie
A Mirror Mended - Alix E Harrow
The Latch Key - Olivia Atwater
Babel - RF Kuang
Terec and the Wild - Victoria Goddard
Where the Drowned Girls Go - Seanan McGuire
Meru - S.B. Divya
Aurelius (to be called) Magnus - Victoria Goddard
Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey
The Oleander Sword - Tasha Suri
The Mimicking of Known Successes - Malka Older
Nettle and Bone - T Kingfisher
Stone Speaks to Stone - Victoria Goddard
Gwen and Art Are Not In Love - Lex Croucher
Practical Witching - Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall
How To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster) - Marie Cardno
A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys
What Moves The Dead - T Kingfisher
The Thousand Eyes - A.K. Larkwood
Compass Rose - Anna Burke
The Green Man's Challenge - Juliet E. McKenna
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna
Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain - Charlotte Higgins
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby
A Coup of Tea - Casey Blair
When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
The Bruising of Qilwa - Naseem Jamnia
Null States - Malka Older
The Body in the Blitz - Robin Stevens
The Game of Courts - Victoria Goddard
The Thirteen-Gun Salute - Patrick O'Brian
A Local Habitation - Seanan McGuire
10 Things That Never Happened - Alexis Hall
12 Days of Witchmas - Tansy Rayner Roberts
In the Realms of Gold - Victoria Goddard
Love and War in the Apennines - Eric Newby
Game of Scones - Kim M. Watt
The Personality Brokers - Merve Emre
A Power Unbound - Freya Marske
System Collapse - Martha Wells
An Artificial Night - Seanan McGuire
Penelope Pops The Question - Kate Healey
The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag
Heartstopper vol 5 - Alice Oseman
Steeple - John Allison
Full Tilt - Dervla Murphy
Rivers of London: Here Be Dragons - Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Caramel, James Swallow
Chaos Terminal - Mur Lafferty
How To Wild Swim - Ella Foote
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
The Secret Lives of Colour - Kassia St Clair
134 books.
16 by men, 108 by women, 11 by non-binary authors.
93 white, 11 PoC (some I didn't know).
30 by writers I know are some flavour of queer, 2 by trans authors
9 by writers with disabilities that I am aware of.
Most-read genre was fantasy (78). 21 SF, 2 historical, 17 romance, 2 contemporary fiction, 6 mystery, 19 non-fiction.
72 novels, 23 novellas, 8 novelettes, 2 short story collections, 9 graphic novels.
Most read author by some way Victoria Goddard (21 books). Other people I read more than one book by: Tansy Rayner Roberts (8); Alexis Hall (5); Olivia Atwater, T Kingfisher and Seanan McGuire (3 each); Blue Delliquanti, Stephanie Burgis, Eric Newby, Juliet E McKenna, Mur Lafferty and Freya Marske (2 each).
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter - Alexis Hall
Till Human Voices Wake Us - Victoria Goddard
Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults - Dr Luke Beardon
The Flow - Amy-Jane Beer
O Human Star - Blue Delliquanti
The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Saga Compendium 1 - Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Stargazy Pie - Victoria Goddard
Castle Charming - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Castle Ever After - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Bee Sting Cake - Victoria Goddard
To the Chapel Perilous - Naomi Mitchison
How Long 'Til Black Future Month - N.K. Jemisin
Whiskeyjack - Victoria Goddard
The Spare Man - Mary Robinette Kowal
Hani and Ishu's Guide To Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
The Thief on the Winged Horse - Kate Mascarenhas
Blackcurrant Fool - Victoria Goddard
Even Though I Knew The End - C.L. Polk
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows
To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers
Dangerous Flames - Stephanie Burgis
Love-in-a-Mist - Victoria Goddard
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
Enchanted Glass - Diana Wynne Jones
Half a Soul - Olivia Atwater
Death: The High Cost of Living - Neil Gaiman
Plum Duff - Victoria Goddard
Miranda in Milan - Katharine Duckett
The Outskirter's Secret - Rosemary Kirstein
Power and Majesty - Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Saint of the Bookstore - Victoria Goddard
Across a Field of Starlight - Blue Delliquanti
The Green Man's Silence - Juliet E. McKenna
Station Eternity - Mur Lafferty
Enchantment - Katherine May
The Dyke and the Dybbuk - Ellen Galford
Flight of Magpies - K.J. Charles
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Have Spirit, Will Duchess - Tansy Rayner Roberts
One Woman Walks Wales - Ursula Martin
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Bride of the Blue Wind - Victoria Goddard
Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity - Devon Price
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorne
The Shattered City - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Into the Riverlands - Nghi Vo
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
Something Spectacular - Alexis Hall
Paladin's Grace - T Kingfisher
Derring-do For Beginners - Victoria Goddard
The Iron Children - Rebecca Fraimow
Glitterland - Alexis Hall
Eating Dormice - Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Moon-spinners - Mary Stewart
Management Lessons from Game of Thrones - Fiona Moore
The Outside - Ada Hoffmann
The Lord Sorcier - Olivia Atwater
Rosemary and Rue - Seanan McGuire
Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto
The Warrior of the Third Veil - Victoria Goddard
Adrift - Helen Babbs
The Four Profound Weaves - R.B. Lemberg
The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard
Féonie and the Islander Regalia - Victoria Goddard
Petty Treasons - Victoria Goddard
A Restless Truth - Freya Marske
At the Feet of the Sun - Victoria Goddard
Rose Knot - Kari Sperring
Witch King - Martha Wells
Redressed - Cat Sebastian
Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
Clary Sage - Victoria Goddard
Reign of Beasts - Tansy Rayner Roberts
Claws and Contrivances - Stephanie Burgis
Diplomatic Immunity - Lois McMaster Bujold
Death Among the Dons - Janet Neel
Twelve Percent Dread - Emily McGovern
Findings - Kathleen Jamie
A Mirror Mended - Alix E Harrow
The Latch Key - Olivia Atwater
Babel - RF Kuang
Terec and the Wild - Victoria Goddard
Where the Drowned Girls Go - Seanan McGuire
Meru - S.B. Divya
Aurelius (to be called) Magnus - Victoria Goddard
Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey
The Oleander Sword - Tasha Suri
The Mimicking of Known Successes - Malka Older
Nettle and Bone - T Kingfisher
Stone Speaks to Stone - Victoria Goddard
Gwen and Art Are Not In Love - Lex Croucher
Practical Witching - Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall
How To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster) - Marie Cardno
A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys
What Moves The Dead - T Kingfisher
The Thousand Eyes - A.K. Larkwood
Compass Rose - Anna Burke
The Green Man's Challenge - Juliet E. McKenna
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna
Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain - Charlotte Higgins
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby
A Coup of Tea - Casey Blair
When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
The Bruising of Qilwa - Naseem Jamnia
Null States - Malka Older
The Body in the Blitz - Robin Stevens
The Game of Courts - Victoria Goddard
The Thirteen-Gun Salute - Patrick O'Brian
A Local Habitation - Seanan McGuire
10 Things That Never Happened - Alexis Hall
12 Days of Witchmas - Tansy Rayner Roberts
In the Realms of Gold - Victoria Goddard
Love and War in the Apennines - Eric Newby
Game of Scones - Kim M. Watt
The Personality Brokers - Merve Emre
A Power Unbound - Freya Marske
System Collapse - Martha Wells
An Artificial Night - Seanan McGuire
Penelope Pops The Question - Kate Healey
The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag
Heartstopper vol 5 - Alice Oseman
Steeple - John Allison
Full Tilt - Dervla Murphy
Rivers of London: Here Be Dragons - Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Caramel, James Swallow
Chaos Terminal - Mur Lafferty
How To Wild Swim - Ella Foote
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
The Secret Lives of Colour - Kassia St Clair
134 books.
16 by men, 108 by women, 11 by non-binary authors.
93 white, 11 PoC (some I didn't know).
30 by writers I know are some flavour of queer, 2 by trans authors
9 by writers with disabilities that I am aware of.
Most-read genre was fantasy (78). 21 SF, 2 historical, 17 romance, 2 contemporary fiction, 6 mystery, 19 non-fiction.
72 novels, 23 novellas, 8 novelettes, 2 short story collections, 9 graphic novels.
Most read author by some way Victoria Goddard (21 books). Other people I read more than one book by: Tansy Rayner Roberts (8); Alexis Hall (5); Olivia Atwater, T Kingfisher and Seanan McGuire (3 each); Blue Delliquanti, Stephanie Burgis, Eric Newby, Juliet E McKenna, Mur Lafferty and Freya Marske (2 each).
