Monday, 1 January 2024

2023 Books

 The list of books read during 2023.... as usual Canadian authors shown in RED, British authors in BLUE, American authors in GREEN.

JANUARY
The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin
Finding Edward - Sheila Murray
Sea of Tranquillity - Emily St.John Mandel

FEBRUARY
Utopia - Heidi Sopinka (DNF - got as far as page 3)
Make Ink, a Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking - Jason Logan
Ducks, Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton (graphic novel, well worth reading!)
The Glass Hotel - Emily St.John Mandel

MARCH
The Hungry Ghosts - Shyam Selvadurai
Uncertain Kin - Janice Lynn Mather
When We Lost Our Heads - Heather O'Neill (DNF)
Mouth to Mouth - Antoine Wilson
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel

APRIL
The Mystery of Right and Wrong - Wayne Johnstone
The Maid - Nita Prose

MAY
Fayne - Mary Anne MacDonald
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield
Station Eleven - Emily St.John Mandel

JUNE
Spare - Prince Harry
The Finder - Will Ferguson
Miss Benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce
First Snow, Last Light - Wayne Johnstone
Making Handmade Books - Alisa Godden

JULY
The Lindbergh Nanny - Mariah Fredericks
Custodian of Paradise - Wayne Johnstone
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon
Queen's Gambit - Elizabeth Freemantle

AUGUST
The Art Thief - Noah Charney
A Tidy Ending - Joanna Cannon
Three Things about Elsie - Joanna Cannon
Don't Tell Me You're Afraid - Giuseppe Catozzella

SEPTEMBER
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 
Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson
The Juggler's Children - Carolyn Abraham
Big Sky - Kate Atkinson
The Lake House - Kate Morton (DNF - just didn't grab my imagination)

OCTOBER
Cooking for Picasso - Camille Aubray
The Second History - Rebecca Silver Slayter (DNF - not my sort of book)
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson

NOVEMBER
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn

DECEMBER
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter - Hazel Gaynor
The Rose Code - Kate Quinn
After the Bloom - Leslie Shimotakahara

Currently reading: Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood