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READING 2023
Attached is a list of the books I read so far
in 2023. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books
of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country
and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the
complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
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January
1 Gwen Kirby 1 Shit
Cassandra Saw AMERICAN 21st 1 STORIES 1
2 Kate Atkinson 4 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 1
3 Homer The Iliad, Lattimore translation GREEK
BC 1 NOVEL 2
4 John Barth 6 Lost in the Funhouse AMERICAN 20th 1
NOVEL 3
5 Sophocles Philoctetes (second time) GREEK BC 2 PLAY
1
6 Kate Atkinson 5 Shrines of Gaiety BRTISH 21st 1 NOVEL 4
7 Richard Bernstein 1 Pragmatic Naturalism
AMERICAN 21st 2 PHILOSOPHY 1
February
8 John Dewey Human Nautre and Conduct (second time) AMERICAN
20th 2 PHILOSOPHY 2
9 Colm Toibin 3 House of Names IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 5
10 A. E. Stallings 1 Archaic Smile AMERICAN 21st 2 POETRY 1
11 Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary [in French] FRENCH
19th 1 NOVEL 6
12 Irvin Yalom 1 When Nietzsche Wept AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 7
13 Donna Morrissey 1 ***Kit's Law CANADIAN 20th 3 NOVEL 8
March
14 Alison McBain The New Empire 21st
3 NOVEL 9
15 A. E. Stallings This After Life
AMERICAN 21st 4 POETRY 2
16 Dictys The Trojan War by Dictys
ANCIENT GREEK 1 HISTORY 1
17 Barry Strauss The Trojan War AMERICAN
21st 5 HISTORY 2
18 Charles Dickens Great Expectations
BRITISH 19th 1 NOVEL 10
April
10 Anthology My First Book of Haiku
Poems
11 Gabi Coatsworth A Beginner's Guide
to Starting Over
12 Annie Ernaux 1 L'Evenement FRENCH 21st 1
NOVEL 12
13 Framcis Bacon The Great
Instauration BRITSH 17th SCIENCE 1
14 Francis Bacon The New Atlantis
BRITISH 17th POLITICAL SCIENCE 1
15 John Dewey Reconstruction in
Philosophy
16 Charles Dickens David Copperfield
BRITISH 19th 2 NOVEL 13
17 J. D. Salinger Frannie and Zooey
AMERICAN 20th 4 NOVEL 14
May
19 Annie Ernaux 2 Memoire de Fille FRENCH
21st 2 NOVEL 16
20 Richard Feynman 2 Six Easy Pieces
AMERICAN 20th 5 SCIENCE 2
21 Heidi Heilig The Girl from
Everywhere AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 17
22 Lizzie Pook Moonlight and the
Pearler's Daughter AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 18
June
24 Jane Smiley The
Questions that Matter Most AMERICAN 21st 9 ESSAYS 1
25 Anita Diamant 2Good Harbor
AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 19
26 Eric J. Lerner The Big Bang Never
Happened AMERICAN 20th 6 SCIENCE 3
27 Tom Quinn Delivering Greatness
AMERICAN 21st 9 ESSAYS 2
28 Anita Diamant 3 The Last Days of Dogtown AMERICAN 21st 10
NOVEL 20
29 Anita Diamant 4 The Boston Girl AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 21
30 Anita Diamant 5 Day After Night AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 22
July
31 Alice Hoffman 2 The Dovekeepers AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 23
32 Athina Veloudou 1 Adventure in Greece (bilingual) Book 1 GREEK 21st 1 LANGUAGE 1
33 Athina Veloudou 2 Adventure in Greece (bilingual) Book 2 GREEK 21st 2 LANGUAGE 2
34 Gustave Flaubert 4 Salammbo FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 24
35 Victor Hugo 8 The Man Who Laughed FRENCH 19th 2 NOVEL 25
36 Olga Tokarczuk 3 ****The Books of Jacob POLISH 21st 1 NOVEL 26
August
37 Kevin Wilson 1 Nothing to See Here AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 27
38 Jessie Inchaspe 1 Glucose Revolution
AMERICAN 21st 15 SCIENCE 4
39 Loren Graham 1 and Jean-Michel Kantor Naming Infinity
AMERICAN 21st 16 SCIENCE 5
40 Amor Towles 1 A Gentleman from Moscow AMERICAN 21st 17
NOVEL 28
41 Sonya Kovalevsky 1 Recollections of Childhood RUSSIAN 19th
1 BIOGRAPHY 1
42 Sonya Kovalevsky 2 Girl Nihilist RUSSIAN 19th 2 NOVEL 29
September
43 Don Kennedy 1 Little Sparrow: a Portrait of Sophia
Kovalevsky AMERICAN 20th 7 BIOGRAPHY 2
44 Kevin Wilson 2 Now Is Not the Time to Panic AMERICAN 21st
18 NOVEL 30
October
45 Granta #163 Best of Young British Novelists BRITISH 21st MAGAZINE 1
46 Peter Attia 1 Outlive AMERICAN 21st 20 HEALTH 1
47 Dmitry Davidov 1 The Theological Views of St. John of Kronstadt RUSSIAN 21st 1 RELIGION 1
48 Diana Athill 1 Somewhere Toward the End AMERICAN 21st 19 BIOGRAPHY 3
49 Thomas Mann 6 The Holy Sinner GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL 31
50 Fyodor Dostoevksy 16 Notes from a Dead House RUSSIAN 19th 3 NOVEL 32
November
51 Fyodor Dostoevsky White Nights RUSSIAN 19th 4 NOVEL 33
52 Fyodor Dostoevsky The Eternal Husband RUSSIAN 19th 5 NOVEL 34
53 Carlo Rovelli ***White Holes ITALIAN 21st 1 SCIENCE 5
54 Fyodor Dostoevsky 17 A Gentle Creature RUSSIAN 19th 6 NOVEL 35
55 Fyodor Dostoevsky Diary of a Ridiculous Man RUSSIAN 19th 7 NOVEL 36
56 Fyodor Dostoevsky The Landlady RUSSIAN 19th 8 NOVEL 37
57 Fyodor Dostoevsky The Gambler RUSSIAN 19th 9 NOVEL 38
58 Fyodor Dostoevsky The Double
RUSSIAN 19th 10 NOVEL 39
59 Thomas Mann 7 The Transposed Heads GERMAN 20th 2 NOVEL 40
60 Riku Onda 1 **** Honeybees ad Distnt Thunder JAPANESE 21st 1 NOVEL 41
61 Riku Onda 2 Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight JAPANESE 21st 2 NOVEL 42
December
62 Anthony Doerr 3 ****About Grace AMERICAN 21st 20 NOVEL 43
63 Anthony Doerr 4 ****Memory Wall AMERICAN
21st 21 STORIES 2
64 Anthony Doerr 5 ***Shell Collector AMERICAN 21st 22 STORIES 3
65 Anthony Doerr 6 **Four Seasons in Rome AMERICAN 21st 23 BIOGRAPHY 4
66 Riku Onda 3 The Aosawa Murders JAPANESE
21st 3 NOVEL 44
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