2023 was a good year for my reading habits. I always keep a record of the books I’ve read, but this year I thought I’d share the list here. I’ve put a star next to my ten (-ish, I couldn’t narrow it down any more) favourites, but there’s nothing on the list that I didn’t enjoy at all. Most significantly, it’s the year that I started reading Joan Didion’s work. She’d have more stars, but after a point it begins to feel unfair. I just picked my favourite.
- Genius and Discovery: Five Historical Miniatures - Stefan Zweig
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Trust Exercise - Susan Choi
- The White Album - Joan Didion
- My Evil Mother - Margaret Atwood
- The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion ⭐️
- Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean - Joan Didion
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- 5/3/1 - Jim Wendler
- Mistborn: The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson ⭐️
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir ⭐️
- Virtual Light - William Gibson
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- At the Existentialist Café - Sarah Bakewell
- Blue Nights - Joan Didion
- No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
- All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley ⭐️
- Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Katherine Rundell ⭐️
- Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzeneggar
- Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood ⭐️
- Pachinko - Min Jin Lee ⭐️
- Radical Candor - Kim Scott
- Staff Engineer - Will Larson
- A Personal Matter - Kenzaburō Ōe
- The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin ⭐️
- Software Engineering at Google - Assorted people
- Wrath of a Mad God - Raymond Feist
- Sidekiq in Practice - Nate Berkopec
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Jeremy Adler
- Very Good, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse ⭐️
- Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion - Bad Religion and Jim Ruland
- Piranesi - Susanna Clarke ⭐️
- Mistborn: The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson ⭐️
- The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka ⭐️
- Assembly - Natasha Brown
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka ⭐️
