My 2023 Reading List
2 min readDec 23, 2023
Favorites are bolded.
- Sidetripping — Charles Gatewood
- Rabbit Hutch — Tess Gunty
- A Book of Days — Patti Smith
- Mouth to Mouth — Antoine Wilson
- Eight Days in May — Volker Ullrich
- The Train Was On Time — Heinrich Boll
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day — Judith Viorst
- My Last Innocent Year — Daisy Alpert Florin
- Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us — Rachel Aviv
- The Most Precious of Cargoes — Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Bear — Staffan Gnosspelius
- The Devil in the Flesh — Raymond Radiguet
- Why Don’t You Love Me? — Paul B. Rainey
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin
- In Love — Alfred Hayes
- Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret — Judy Blume
- Rikers: An Oral History — by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau
- Dennie — Judy Blume
- Blubber — Judy Blume
- Flamer — Mike Curato
- Forever — Judy Blume
- Then Again, Maybe I Won’t — Judy Blume
- Excellent Advice for Living — Kevin Kelly
- Monsters — Claire Dederer
- The Guest — Emma Cline
- Buddha in Blue Jeans — Tai Sheridan
- The Girls — Emma Cine
- Eastbound — Maylis De Kerangal
- Why the Ramones Matter — Donna Gaines
- How to Say Goodbye — Wendy MacNaughton
- The Theory of Everything Else — Dan Schreiber
- Nuking Alaska — Peter Dunlap-Shohl
- Lying — Sam Harris
- It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth — Zoe Thorogood
- In the Act — Rachel Ingalls
- A Night To Remember — Walter Lord
- Ripe — Sarah Rose Etter
- Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh
- Anatomy of Fascism — Robert O. Paxton
- Waiting to be Arrested at Night — Tahir Hamut Izgil
- Black Hole Survival Guide — Janna Levin
- Diary of a Void — Emily Yagi
- Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. — Russell Davies
- Smart Brevity — Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz
- The confusions of Young Torless — Robert Musil
- The Talk — Darrin Bell
- The Oppermans — Lion Fuechtwagner
- A Shinning — Jon Fosse
- So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men — Claire Keegan
