Books I've read in 2022/2023


I use a 5-star rating system.


Title
Author
Date
Rating
The Jump-Off Creek
Molly Gloss
March
5
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
March
5
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
March
3
Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood
February
2
Honey in the Horn
H.L. Davis
February
5
Cassandra at the Wedding
Dorothy Baker
February
4
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Michaeleen Doucleff
January
5
Bucking the Sun
Ivan Doig
January
3
Cribsheet
Emily Oster
January
4
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
December
4
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
December
4
Fair Play
Tove Jansson
December
4
Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
December
3
The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy
November
4
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
November
4
Expecting Better
Emily Oster
November
4
From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
Scott Meslow
November
4
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
October
4
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
October
3
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
October
4
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
October
5
Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home
Kate Mangino
September
4
Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
September
5
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
September
3
The Soulmate Equation
Christina Lauren
September
4
The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
August
3
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
August
5
The True Deceiver
Tove Jansson
August
5
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
August
5
The Three Brontes
May Sinclair
August
3
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
August
4
Quicksand
Nella Larsen
August
5
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
Ursula K. Le Guin
August
5
Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Hardy
July
4
The Best of R.A. Lafferty
R.A. Lafferty
July
4
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
June
2
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
June
5
Ramon and Julieta
Alana Quintana Albertson
June
2
The Namesake (reread)
Jhumpa Lahiri
June
5
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
June
5
The Captain's Daughter
Alexander Pushkin
May
5
Passing
Nella Larsen
May
5
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
May
5
The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy
Michael Robertson
May
5
Far From the Madding Crowd (reread)
Thomas Hardy
May
5
Conversations with Friends (reread)
Sally Rooney
April
3
Brooklyn (reread)
Colm Toibin
April
5
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett
April
5
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
March
5
Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
Deborah Kennedy
March
1
Free Food for Millionaires (reread)
Min Jin Lee
March
5
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
February
5
Exit Strategy
Martha Wells
February
5
May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian
Suzanne Raitt
January
5
Rogue Protocol
Martha Wells
January
5
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
January
5
The Doomed City
Arkady and Boris Sturgatsky
January
3