ALL THE BOOKS I READ
in 2023
Welcome to the Sunday post.
ALL THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023
((This list makes me realize I need way more poetry in my life: a goal for 2024.))
((This list does not include books that I am long-term reading—I read several books at once, and some, particularly nonfiction/research books are books I read over the course of a year or two and will appear on my list when finished. One marvelous book of poetry I paused reading only because I wanted it fresh in my mind for a conversation, which was then postponed, so it’ll appear on my 2024 list.))
((This list is in the order I read them over the course of the year.))
((You could read this as my “Best Books of 2023” as much as “Books Read in 2023” because there were at least a dozen books I started reading and abandoned and there are only three books on my list that I finished ambivalently. Some of the books I abandoned have of course appeared on various other “Best of” lists.))
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Acíman
Oh, You Thought This Was A Date?! Apocalypse Poems by C. Russell Price
Don’t Nobody Give A Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Witches by Brenda Lozano, translated by Heather Cleary
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
Identitti by Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L. Price
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin
My Pinup: A Paean to Prince by Hilton Als
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
The Red-Headed Pilgrim by Kevin Maloney
La Movida by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Discalculation by Camonghne Felix
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
The Trees by Percival Everett
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
ante body by Marwa Halal
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Those Who Knew by Idra Novey
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
This Story Will Change by Elizabeth Crane
King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite
Fidelitoria: Fixed Or Fluxed by Candice Wuehle
The Guest by Emma Cline
I Thought You Loved Me by MariNaomi
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
