Reading List 2023

Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html

I would recommend the bolded titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the italicized titles but probably wouldn't read them again.

Read in 2023:

0.1.* The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America, by Bill Bryson

1. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days, by Jeanette Winterson

2. An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables, by Deborah Madison

2.1.* Black Pioneers in a White Denomination, by Mark D. Morrison-Reed

3. Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales, by Roberta Simpson Brown 

4. A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan

5. The World Record Book of Racist Stories, by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

6. Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses, by Josephine Caminos Oría

7. Thick, by Tressie McMillan Cottom

8. Rivers of London Vol. 1: Body Work, by Ben Aaronovitch

9. In Love, by Amy Bloom 

10. After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

11. Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl, by Marusya Bociurkiw

12. Peter Darling, by Austin Chant

13. 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, edited by Al Sarrantonio

14. Where the Heart Is, by Jo Knowles

15. Room to Dream, by Kelly Yang

[Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King]

15.1.* Three Keys, by Kelly Yang

16. American Food: A Not-so-Serious History by Rachel Wharton

17. Legends and Lattes, by Travis Baldree

18. My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings, edited by Zosia Mamet

19. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion, by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

20. Liberation Day, by George Saunders

21. Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters

22. The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown

23. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver

24. Yes No Maybe So, by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed

25. Foster, by Claire Keegan

26. The Queen's Price, by Anne Bishop

27. The Game, by Laurie R. King

28. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family, by Kathleen Flinn

29. The Other Half of Happy, by Rebecca Balcárcel

30. The Language of Thorns, by Leigh Bardugo

31. Midnight Chicken and Other Recipes Worth Living For, by Ella Risbridger

32. Straw Bale Gardens Complete, by Joel Karsten 

33. Babel: or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution, by R.F. Kuang

34. The Best at It, by Maulik Pancholy 

35. Mary Jane, by Jessica Anya Blau

36. The House That Lou Built, by Mae Respicio

37. Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work, by Akilah S. Richards 

38. Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud, by Andrew Ramer

39. Double Cheeseburgers, Quiche, and Vegetarian Burritos: American Cooking from the 1920s through Today, by Loretta Frances Ichord

40. Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, by Astrid Lindgren

41. All the Women in My Family Sing, edited by Deborah Santana

41.1.* Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, by Adam Hochschild 

41.2.* Your Four-Year-Old: Wild and Wonderful, by Louise Bates Ames

42. A Spoonful of Promises: Stories and Recipes from a Well-tempered Table, by T. Susan Chang

43. At All Costs, by David Weber

44. She Sheds Style: Make Your Space Your Own, by Erika Kotite

45. Gifts, by Ursula Le Guin

46. A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones

47. If the Creek Don't Rise, by Leah Weiss

48. The Change, by Kirsten Miller

49. Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger, by Lisa Donovan

49.1.* At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson

50. Simon Sort of Says, by Erin Bow

51. Plain Bad Heroines, by Emily M. Danforth

51.1.* We Are All the Same in the Dark, by Julia Heaberlin

52. Take Me with You: A Round-the-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home, by Brad Newsham

53. Betsy-Tacy, by Maud Hart Lovelace

53.1*. Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class, by Jan Whitaker

53.3.* Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, by Andrew F. Smith

54. From the Desk of Zoe Washington, by Janae Marks

55. Caught in the Act, by Joan Lowery Nixon

56. A Dangerous Promise, by Joan Lowery Nixon

57. Keeping Secrets, by Joan Lowery Nixon

58. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please, by Tom Segura

59. Blockade Billy, by Stephen King

60. A Rising Thunder, by David Weber

61. True Biz, by Sara Nović

62. The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin

62.1.* X, by Ilyasah Shabazz

63. We Were the Lucky Ones, by Georgia Hunter

64. The Maid, by Nita Prose

65. The Foundling, by Ann Leary

66. The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell

67. Children of God, by Mary Doria Russell

68. Deathless Divide, by Justina Ireland

[Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott]

69. New From Here, by Kelly Yang

69.1.* Lost Children Archive, by Valerie Luiselli

70. A Half-Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys

71. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender

72. The Old Woman with the Knife, by Gu Byeong-Mo

73. Cassiel's Servant, by Jacqueline Carey
74. I'm Thinking of Ending Things, by Iain Reid

75. The School for Good Mothers, by Jessamine Chan

75.1.* Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors, by Andrea Nguyen

76. The Witch Boy, by Molly Knox Ostertag

77. Blaze, by Richard Bachman
78. The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, by Marie Benedict

79. American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love SPAM, Bananas, and Jell-O, by Christina Ward

80. The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table, by Tracie McMillan 

[The Body, by Stephen King]

[Pet Sematary, by Stephen King]

81. Santa Olivia, by Jacqueline Carey

82. The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas, by Adrian Miller

83. Nettle & Bone, by T. Kingfisher

84. Lockdown, by Laurie R. King

84.1.* Curious Toys, by Elizabeth Hand

84.2.* I Shudder at Your Touch, edited by Michele Slung

85. The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love, by Michelle Maisto

85.1.* Notes from a Young Black Chef, by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein

85.3.* Tiger Daughter, by Rebecca Lim 

86. Homeschool Hacks: How to Give Your Kid a Great Education Without Losing Your Job (or Your Mind), by Linsey Knerl

87. The Baker Street Letters, by Michael Robertson

88. Pirate King, by Laurie R. King

89. Winter's Orbit, by Everina Maxwell

90. Hide, by Kiersten White

91. Ida B., by Karen E. Quinones-Miller

92. Any Other Family, by Eleanor Brown

93. Uncompromising Honor, by David Weber

94. Mommy, I Wish I Could Tell You What They Did to Me in School Today, by Richard Stripp

94.2.* Garment of Shadows, by Laurie R. King

95. Good Neighbors, by Sarah Langan

96. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride