Books Read 2023

Books Read in 2023

I am simplifying - no more book facts or Tom's books.

I went back to 2022, and eliminated them from that year as well because they were incomplete. Also, I am no longer listing exact date I finished a book. It is enough to know the month.

January - 3

1. A Winter Away

by Elizabeth Fair

fiction 1957

Kindle

2. What W. H. Auden Can Do For You

by Alexander McCall Smith 

nonfiction 2013

Kindle

3. The House That is Our Own

by O. Douglas

fiction 1940

Kindle

February - 6

4. Three Witnesses - book 27 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1956

re-read

Kindle

5. As They Slept (A Year in the Life of a London Commuter) 

book 1 of 4

by Andy Leeks

nonfiction 2013

Kindle

6. Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop

by Roselle Lim

fiction 2020

library book

print

7. Danger at the Drawbridge - book 4 in the Penny Parker series

by Mildred Wirt

Young adult mystery 1940

re-read

Kindle

8. Almost American Girl

by Robin Ha

An Illustrated Memoir 2020

Print

9. The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax - book 3 in the Mrs. Pollifax series 

by Dorothy Gilman

mystery 1971

re-read

Kindle

March - 6

10. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax - book 2 in the Mrs. Pollifax series

by Dorothy Gilman

mystery 1970

re-read

Kindle

11. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

fiction 2008

re-read

print

12. A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax - book 4 in the Mrs. Pollifax series 

by Dorothy Gilman

mystery 1973

re-read

Kindle

13. Mrs. Pollifax on Safari - book 5 in the Mrs. Pollifax series

by Dorothy Gilman

mystery 1976

re-read

Kindle

14. Hippie Food

by Jonathan Kauffman

nonfiction 2018

print

15. Crocodile on the Sandbank - book 1 in the Amelia Peabody series

by Elizabeth Peters

mystery 1975

re-read

Kindle

April - 2

16. Something Fresh - book 1 in the Blandings series

by P.G. Wodehouse

fiction 1915

re-read

Kindle

17. Titanic Town

by Mary Costello

fiction 1992

print

May - 

18. Lord James Harrington and the Spring Mystery - book 2 in the Lord James Harrington series

by Lynn Florkiewicz

mystery 2013

Kindle

19. In My Mind's Eye

by Jan Morris

nonfiction 2018

print 

20. Silent Witness - book 2 in the Patrick Grant series 

by Margaret Yorke

mystery 1972

Kindle

21. Still Life at Eighty

the next interesting thing

by Abigail Thomas

nonfiction 2023

print

22. Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

nonficition memoir  2021

print

23. The Lighthearted Quest - book 1 in the Julia Probyn series

by Ann Bridge

mystery 1956

reread

Kindle