Tuesday, January 3, 2023

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

2 comments:

  1. I love McCall Smith's Auden book! Keep it with my Auden poetry.

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  2. I found your blog today while searching for a copy of Letters from Chickadee Hill by Winston Abbott. Wow. I am so grateful for all the book suggestions and reviews. 2024 looks like a good year for reading following your suggestions. I can't wait to explore everything else on your blog.

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