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
