Read in 2023

In 2022 I read a total of 75 books and I'm going to try and read that many again this year. I’ll be keeping track of what I read in 2023 on this page, so feel free to click on any of the hyperlinks below to read the reviews as the year progresses. You can also check out my reviews alphabetically by visiting my Books By Author page. Wish me luck!

January
Copywrong to Copywriter by Tait Ischia
The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell
Andrew Lloyd Webber's the Phantom of the Opera Companion by Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Death of John Lacey by Ben Hobson
What to Say When You Don't Know What To Say by Davina Bell
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

February
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

On Writing by Stephen King
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry - The Case for Good Apologies by Marjorie Ingall and Susan McCarthy

March
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges

Shoes - An Illustrated History by Rebecca Shawcross

Homecoming by Kate Morton
Storm in a Teacup - The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski

Built to Move by Juliet Starrett & Kelly Starrett

April
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

One Illumined Thread by Sally Colin-James
The Therapist by Hugh Mackay
Personal Effects by Robert A. Jensen
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager

May
Patch Work - A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
Black - The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau
I Am, I Am, I Am - Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
The Book of Eve by Meg Clothier
The Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm

June
Becoming Mrs Mulberry by Jackie French
Back Story by David Mitchell

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
The Terrible Event by David Cohen
Perv by Jesse Bering
Almost Lost Arts by Emily Freidenrich
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

July
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Bizarre by Marc Dingman
The Dirt on Clean - An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs
Zero Days by Ruth Ware
Care Packages by Michelle Mackintosh
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

August
The Widow of Walcha by Emma Partridge
The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes
Badness by Gary Jubelin
Eartheater by Dolores Reyes
Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper
And Away by Bob Mortimer
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

September
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Boy Under the Table by Nicole Trope
The Book of the Raven - Corvids in Art & Legend by Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
Don't Hang Up by Benjamin Stevenson
The Widow of Pale Harbour by Hester Fox
Bone Rites by Natalie Bayley

October
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall
This Mortal Coil - A History of Death by Andrew Doig
RecipeTin Eats Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
Maphead - Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings
What Lies Beneath - My life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert by Peter Faulding
The Armour of Light by Ken Follett

November
The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters
Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
Retro Sydney - 1950-2000 by Nathan Mete
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Fierce Love by Susan Scott
Kill Your Husbands by Jack Heath

December
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
You're All Talk by Rob Drummond
Thinking with Your Hands by Susan Golden-Meadow
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Secret History of Christmas by Bill Bryson