Books Read 2023 Table

Literary Fiction	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark) The Exhibitionist (Charlotte Mendelson) 10:04 (Ben Lerner) The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro) Crook Manifesto (Colson Whitehead) I Married a Communist (Philip Roth) Hello Beautiful (Ann Napolitano) Stella Maris (Cormac McCarthy) Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather) Trust (Hernan Diaz) Shrines of Gaiety (Kate Atkinson) Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard) The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead) The Vegetarian (Han Kang) Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver) Tracy Flick Can't Win (Tom Perrotta) An Unnecessary Woman (Rabih Alameddine)
Horror / Thriller / Mystery	Mr. Mercedes (Stephen King) Fairy Tale (Stephen King) Holly (Stephen King) Billy Summers (Stephen King) The Only One Left (Riley Sager) The House Across the Lake (Riley Sager) One by One (Ruth Ware) The Twist of a Knife (Anthony Horowitz) Persuader (Lee Child)
Poetry	Come, Thief (Jane Hirshfield) The Beauty (Jane Hirshfield) Ledger (Jane Hirshfield) Given Sugar, Given Salt (Jane Hirshfield) Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light (Joy Harjo) Special Orders (Edward Hirsch) Above Ground (Clint Smith) Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (Maya C. Popa)
Memoir / Biography	World Within a Song (Jeff Tweedy) Tom Stoppard: A Life (Hermione Lee) Dickens and Prince (Nick Hornby) Left Bank (Agnès Poirier) Building (Mark Ellison) The Empathy Diaries (Sherry Turkle)
Philosophy / Spirituality / Wisdom	The Zen of Seeing (Frederick Franck) How to Live (Sarah Bakewell) The Pocket Pema Chodron (Pema Chödrön) The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh (Thich Nhat Hanh) Jung's Map of the Soul (Murray Stein) Falling Upward (Richard Rohr)
Social Science / Nonfiction	Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari) Behave (Robert Sapolsky) The Voltage Effect (John A. List) Sounds Wild and Broken (David George Haskell) Poverty, by America (Matthew Desmond) How to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell) Wildland (Evan Osnos) If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal (Justin Gregg) An Immense World (Ed Yong) Imaginable (Jane McGonigal)