Books Read in 2023

Home, sweet home.

Below are the books I've read this year, in reverse chronological order.  An asterisk indicates that it was an audiobook.  

• The King Who Rained (Fred Gwynne)
• A Christmas Spider's Miracle (Trinka Hakes Noble & Stephen Costanza)
• Click, Clack, Ho! Ho! Ho! (Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin)
• The Stable Where Jesus Was Born (Rhonda Gowler Greene & Susan Gaber)
• The Night Before Christmas (Clement C. Moore, narrated by Meryl Streep)*
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Dr. Seuss)
• Bear Stays Up For Christmas (Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman)
• Is This Anything? (Jerry Seinfeld)*
• Elmo Saves Christmas (Ellen Appleby)
• We Disagree About This Tree (Ross Collins)
• Little Blue Truck's Christmas: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids (Alice Schertle & Jill McElmurry)
• Holidays on Ice (David Sedaris)*
• All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat (Suzy Becker)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson)
• Mirror, Mirror: The Burns Collection Daguerrotypes (Stanley B. Burns)
• The Jones Third Reader (Lewis Henry Jones)
• Whittington (Alan Armstrong)*
• The Testaments (Margaret Atwood)*
• Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)
• The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Midnight Magic (Avi)*
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)*
• Back in the Days (Jamel Shabazz)
• Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues (Gelett Burgess)
• Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut)*
• Camping Out (Heather Amery & Stephen Cartwright)
• The Grand Expedition (Emma Adbåge)
• Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping (Peggy Parish & Lynn Sweat)
• The Little People: Crow Legends of Creation (Flora Hatheway et al)
• Armageddon in Retrospect (Kurt Vonnegut)*
• First Hundred Words in German (Heather Amery
• MaddAddam (Margaret Atwood)*
• Are You There God?  It's Me, Margaret (Judy Blume)
• Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion (Gabrielle Stanley Blair)
• Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children During the Holocaust (Jennifer Roy & Meg Owenson)
• Bite Me (Christopher Moore)
• Interpreter of Maladies (Jhupa Lahiri)*
• The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood)*
• Colors in German: Die Farben (Daniel Nunn)
• Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)*
• Out of Darkness (Ashley Hope Perez)
• Downsiders (Neal Shusterman)
• You Suck (Christopher Moore)
• Butts: A Backstory (Heather Radke)*
• Spill (Leight Fondakowski)*
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Max Brooks)*
• Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books (Nick Hornby)
• Ain't Burned All the Bright (Jason Reynolds)
• The Go-Between (Veronica Chambers)*
• Bloodsucking Fiends (Christopher Moore)
• Vitamania:  Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection (Catherine Price)*
• On A Benediction of Wind: Poems & Photographs from the American West (Charles Finn)
• Holy Cow (David Duchovny)*
• War (Jose Jorge Letria)
• War (Jose Jorge Letria)
• The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles (Maud Petersham & Miska Petersham)
• My Wild Cat (Isabelle Simler)
• Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)*
• Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty (Tim Sandlin)
• Why Not Socialism? (G.A. Cohen)
• A Girl Like That (Tanaz Bhathena)*
• Snoozefest: The Surprising Science of Sleep (Tanya Lloyd Kyi)
• Monstrous Beauty (Elizabeth Fama)*
• The Golden Day (Ursula Dubosarsky)*
• David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium (David Sedaris & Jeffrey Jenkins)
• Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean (Richard Logan &
• Tere Dupperault Fassbender)*
• The Moonlight Child (Karen McQuestion)
• Gassed- The True Story of a Toxic Train Derailment: Book 2 - The Long Haul (R.L. Scholl)
• Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (Meg Medina)*
• Gassed- The True Story of a Toxic Train Derailment: Book 1 - The Spill (R.L. Scholl)
• MaddAddam (Margaret Atwood)*
• The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood)*
• Glory Guitars: Memoir of a 90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl (Gogo Germaine)
• Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
• Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)*
• Das Kleine Ich-Bin-Ich (Mira Lobe & Susi Weigl)
• Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
• Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen (Maurice Sendak)
• Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen (Maurice Sendak)
• Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (Eric Carle)
• Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (Eric Carle)
• Old Babes in the Wood: Stories (Margaret Atwood)
• Shadow of the Fox (Julie Kagawa)*
• Bluebeard (Kurt Vonnegut)
• Before We Eat: From Farm to Table (Pat Brisson & Mary Azarian)
• Happy-Go-Lucky (David Sedaris)*
• Shop Class Hall Pass: Facing the Buried Trauma of Sexual Assault (Karin Martel)
• Good Eating: The Short Life of Krill (Matt Lilley & Dan Tavis)
•  Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria (Songju Ma Daemicke & Lin)
• It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (Jennifer Gardy & Belle Wuthrich)
• The Dude De Ching (The Church of Latter-Dude)
• When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment (Ryan T Anderson)
• Love in the Library (Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Yas Imamura)
• Cloaked in Courage: Uncovering Deborah Sampson, Patriot Soldier (Beth Anderson & Anne Lambelet)
• Maus II - A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman)
• Astray (Emma Donoghue)*
• Fox: A Circle of Life Story (Isabel Thomas & Daniel Egnéus)
• A Dirty Job (Christopher Moore)
• Stolen Science: Thirteen Untold Stories of Scientists and Inventors Almost Written out of History (Ella Schwartz & Gaby D'Alessandro)
• A Is for Bee: An Alphabet Book in Translation (Ellen Heck)
• HeroRat! Magawa, A Lifesaving Rodent (Jodie Parachini, Keiron Ward, & Jason Dewhirst)
• Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (Eric Carle)
• History of Wolves (Emily Fridlund)
• The Story of Little Black Sambo (Helen Bannerman)
• Das Kleine Ich-Bin-Ich (Mira Lobe & Susi Weigl)
• Das Kleine Ich-Bin-Ich (Mira Lobe & Susi Weigl)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
• Maus I - A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman)
• Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (Kieran Setiya)
• Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)*
• Die Kleine Raupe Nimmersatt (Eric Carle)*
• The Summer My Father Was Ten (Pat Brisson & Andrea Shine)
• Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Angela Joy & Janelle Washington)
• They're Heroes Too: A Celebration of Community (Pat Brisson & Anait Semirdzhyan)
• We Were Tired of Living in a House (Liesel Moak Skorpen & Doris Burn)
• Dust (Hugh Howey)
• The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)*
• The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
• Curious George and the Pizza (Margret Rey)
• The Boy Who Loved All Living Things: The Imaginary Childhood Journal of Albert Schweitzer (Sheila Hamanaka)
• Shift (Hugh Howey)
• Lobster (Guillaume Lecasble)
• The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niggenegger)*
• Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States (Warren Binford)
• Endless Nights (Neil Gaiman et al)
• The Dream Hunters (Neil Gaiman et al)