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 - 7

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

24. The Summer Mystery - book 3 in the Lord James Harrington series

by Lynn Florkiewicz

mystery 2013

Kindle

June - 5

25. Mr. Lynch's Holiday

by Catherine O'Flynn

fiction 2013

reread

Kindle

26. 84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

nonfiction 1970

reread - looks like the last time was 2007

print

27. This Hill, This Valley

by Hal Borland

nonfiction 1957

Kindle

28. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

by Helene Hanff

nonfiction 1973

print

29. Q's Legacy

by Helene Hanff

nonfiction 1985

print

July - 5

30. An English Murder aka The Christmas Murder

by Cyril Hare 

mystery 1951

re-read

Kindle

31. With A Bare Bodkin - book 2 in the Francis Pettigrew series 

by Cyril Hare

mystery 1946

Kindle

32. Virginia Woolf At Home

by Hilary Macaskill

nonfiction 2019

print

33. Tragedy at Law - book 1 in the Francis Pettigrew series

by Cyril Hare

mystery 1942

Kindle

34. Tenant For Death - book 1 in the Inspector Mallett series

by Cyril Hare

mystery 1937

Kindle

August - 2

35. Fer-De-Lance - book 1 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1934

re-read

Kindle

36. Some Buried Caesar - book 6 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1939

re-read

Kindle

September - 4

37. The League of Frightened Men - book 2 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1935

re-read

Kindle

38. Confessions of a Bookseller - second in The Diary of a Bookseller series

by Shaun Bythell

nonfiction 2019

library book - ILL

print

39. The Bloomsbury Cookbook

Recipes for Life, Love and Art

by Jans Ondaatje Rolls

nonfiction 2014

print

40. The Rubber Band - book 3 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1936

Kindle 

October - 4

41. The Red Box - book 4 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1937

Kindle

42. Too Many Cooks - book 5 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1938

Kindle

43. The Mirror Crack'ed -  book 8 in the Miss Marple series

by Agatha Christie

mystery 1962

ILLed from the library

print

44. Over My Dead Body - book 7 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1939

Kindle

45. What you are looking for is in the library

by Michiko Aoyama

translated from Japanese by Alison Watts

fiction 2020

library book

print

November - 3

46. Where There's A Will - book 8 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1940

Kindle

47. Black Orchids - book 9 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1942

Kindle

48. Not Quite Dead Enough - book 10 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1944

Kindle

December - 4

49. The Silent Speaker - book 11 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1946

Kindle

50. 18 Tiny Deaths

The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

by Bruce Goldfarb

nonfiction 2020

library book

print

51. Too Many Women - book 12 in the Nero Wolfe series 

by Rex Stout

mystery 1947

Kindle

52. And Be A Villain - book 13 in the Nero Wolfe series

by Rex Stout

mystery 1948

Kindle