Books read in 2023

Hawk Mountain (Connor Habib; 2022. Fiction.) LIB
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Kate Beaton; 2022. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
Babysitter (Joyce Carol Oates; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World (Will Buckingham; 2021. Fiction.) RFS
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Herman Melville; 1851. Fiction.) RFS *
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (Maryanne Wolf; 2018. Non-fiction.) RFS
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In (C.L.R. James; 1953. Non-fiction.) ATY
Bloodbath Nation (Paul Auster; 2023. Non-fiction.) LIB
Gender Queer (Maia Kobabe; 2019. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
The Odyssey (Homer. (Translated by Emily Wilson; 2017.) Poetry.) RFS *
New Kid (Jerry Craft; 2019. Graphic fiction.) LIB
Salvador Dali (Mike Venezia; 2016. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
This Is Dalí (Catherine Ingram; 2014. Non-fiction.) LIB
Welcome to the New World (Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan; 2020. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
The Mad, Mad World of Salvador Dalí (Angela Wenzel; 2003. Non-fiction.) LIB
Salvador Dalí: Exploring the Irrational (Edmund Swinglehurst; 1996. Non-fiction.) LIB
A Study in Scarlet (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; 1887. Fiction.) RFS *
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Jul Maroh; 2013. Graphic fiction.) LIB
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Derf Backderf; 2020. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
The Midcoast (Adam White; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal (E. Jean Carroll; 2019. Non-fiction.) LIB
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Jenny Odell; 2019. Non-fiction.) LIB
Like (A.E. Stallings; 2018. Poetry.) LIB
Pompeii: Unearthing Ancient Worlds (Liz Sonneborn; 2008. Non-fiction.) LIB
Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village (Mary Chamberlain; 1975. Non-fiction.) RFS
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky; 1866. (Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; 1992.)) Fiction.) RFS
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus. (Translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1831.)) Drama / Poetry.) OTH
The Winter’s Tale (William Shakespeare; 1611. Drama.) RFS *
The Dead (James Joyce; 1611. Fiction.) RFS *
A World of Curiosities (Louise Penny; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
The Return of Martin Guerre (Natalie Zemon Davies; 1983. Non-fiction.) ATY
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life (Charles J. Shields; 2011. Non-fiction.) RFS
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent―and Reinvent―Our Identities (Gregory Berns; 2022. Non-fiction.) LIB
The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare; 1594. Drama.) RFS *
The Lemming Condition (Alan Arkin; 1976. Fiction.) RFS
I Have Some Questions for You (Rebecca Makkai; 2023. Fiction.) ATY
King Lear (William Shakespeare; 1606. Drama.) RFS *
The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni; 1827. (Translated by Michael F. Moore; 2023.)) Fiction.) ATY
Little Monsters, Vol. 1 (Jeff Lemire; 2022. Graphic fiction.) LIB
Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier (Jim Ottaviani; 2020. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy (Paula Marantz Cohen; 2021. Non-fiction.) RFS
The Emigrants (W.G. Sebald; 1992/1996. Fiction.) RFS *
Gilgamesh the King (Ludmila Zeman; 1992. Fiction.) LIB
The Revenge of Ishtar (Ludmila Zeman; 1993. Fiction.) LIB
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes; 1605/1615. (Translated by Edith Grossman; 2003.) Fiction.) RFS
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (Patrick Bringley; 2023. Non-fiction.) ATY
Project Hail Mary (Andrew Weir; 2021. Fiction.) RFS
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (Ludmila Zeman; 1998. Fiction.) LIB
Watership Down (Richard Adams; 1972. Fiction.) RFS
Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
All We Can Ever Know (Nicole Chung; 2018. Non-fiction.) RFS
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies (Michael Ausiello; 2017. Non-fiction.) RFS
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Elizabeth Kolbert; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt; 2022. Fiction.) ATY
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia (Emma Copley Eisenberg; 2020. Non-fiction.) RFS
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (J.K. Rowling; 1997. Fiction.) RFS *
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling; 1998. Fiction.) RFS *
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling; 1999. Fiction.) RFS *
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling; 2000. Fiction.) RFS *
August: Osage County (Tracey Letts; 2007. Drama.) RFS
Beware the Woman (Megan Abbott; 2023. Fiction.) ATY
Every Good Boy Does Fine (Jeremy Denk; 2022. Non-fiction.) RFS
Lazarus, Vol. 7 (Greg Rucka; 2022. Graphic fiction.) OTH
The Beatryce Prophecy (Kate DiCamillo; 2022. Fiction.) ATY
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling; 2003. Fiction.) RFS *
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling; 2005. Fiction.) RFS *
My Murder (Katie Williams; 2023. Fiction.) ATY
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Patrick Radden Keefe; 2021. Non-fiction.) RFS
Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers (Jeff Lemire; 2023. Graphic fiction.) OTH
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling; 2007. Fiction.) RFS *
The Fold (Peter Clines; 2015. Fiction.) RFS
The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman; 2020. Fiction.) RFS
The Man Who Died Twice (Richard Osman; 2021. Fiction.) RFS
The Bullet That Missed (Richard Osman; 2022. Fiction.) LIB
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language (Nicola Gardini; 2019. Non-fiction.) RFS
The Guest (Emma Cline; 2023. Fiction.) LIB
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (R.F. Kuang; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
All Systems Red (Martha Wells; 2017. Fiction.) LIB *
The School for Whatnots (Margaret Peterson Haddix; 2022. Fiction.) ATY
The Republic (Plato; 375 BCE. Non-fiction.) RFS
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy; 1874. Fiction.) RFS
Prom Mom (Laura Lippmann; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
A Living Remedy (Nicole Chung; 2023. Non-fiction.) ATY
Nights of Plague (Orhan Pamuk; 2021. Fiction.) RFS
Little Monsters (Adrienne Brodeur; 2023. Fiction.) LIB
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner; 1936. Fiction.) RFS
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (Pádraig Ó Tuama; 2022. Poetry.) RFS
A Heart That Works (Rob Delaney; 2022. Non-fiction.) LIB
The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins; 1868. Fiction.) RFS
Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White; 1952. Fiction.) RFS *
The Story of Charlotte’s Web: E. B. White’s Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic (Michael Sims; 2011. Non-fiction.) RFS
The House (Paco Roca; 2019. Graphic fiction.) LIB
The Last Devil to Die (Richard Osman; 2023. Fiction.) LIB
Ballad for Sophie (Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia; 2021. Graphic fiction.) LIB
The Waiting (Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; 2021. Graphic fiction.) LIB
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie; 1926. Fiction.) RFS *
Necessary Trouble (Drew Gilpin Faust; 2023. Non-fiction.) ATY
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury; 1953. Fiction.) RFS *
Seedfolks (Paul Fleischman; 1997. Fiction.) ATY
Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl; 2006. Drama.) ATY
Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best: Bedtime Stories for Trying Times — A Parody (Jennie Egerdie; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America (Navied Mahdavian; 2023. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson; 1959. Fiction.) RFS *
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation (Miles Hyman; 2016. Graphic fiction.) RFS
Wrinkles (Paco Roca; 2016. Graphic fiction.) LIB
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope; 1875. Fiction.) RFS
Stuart Little (E.B. White; 1945. Fiction.) RFS *
The Shining (Stephen King; 1977. Fiction.) RFS *
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg; 1945. Fiction.) RFS *
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë; 1847. Fiction.) RFS *
Our Missing Hearts (Celeste Ng; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
Saga, Vol. 11 (Brian K. Vaughan; 2023. Graphic fiction.) OTH
New Grub Street (George Gissing; 1891. Fiction.) RFS
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins; 1859. Fiction.) RFS
Missing May (Cynthia Rylant; 1992. Fiction.) ATY
The Trumpet of the Swan (E.B. White; 1970. Fiction.) ATY
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Michiko Aoyama; 2020/2023. Fiction.) ATY
The Lion in Winter (James Goldman; 1966. Drama.) RFS
The Odd Women (George Gissing; 1893. Fiction.) RFS
To Name the Bigger Lie (Sarah Viren; 2023. Non-fiction.) ATY
A Guest in the House (Emily Carroll; 2023. Graphic fiction.) LIB
Chain Gang All-Stars (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; 2023. Fiction.) ATY
The Changeling (Victor Lavalle; 2017. Fiction.) RFS
Prophet Song (Paul Lynch; 2023. Fiction.) ATY
Patient Zero (Jonathan Maberry; 2009. Fiction.) RFS
Yellowface (R.F. Kuang; 2023. Fiction.) ATY
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin; 2022. Fiction.) RFS
Dark Matter (Michelle Paver; 2010. Fiction.) RFS
Almost Invisible (Mark Strand; 2012. Poetry.) LIB
Blame (Michelle Huneven; 2009. Fiction.) RFS
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RFS read from shelves
ATY acquired this year
LIB library (including Hoopla and Libby)
OTH other
* Denotes a reread