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2023
My Year in Books
33,502
pages read
Nick
112
books read
Nick
A Clean Kill by Michael Gilbert
Shortest Book
11
pages
Goebbels by Peter Longerich
Longest Book
964
pages
Average book length in 2023
299
pages
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
2,414,951
people also shelved
A Clean Kill by Michael Gilbert
Least Shelved
1
people also shelved
Nick’s average rating for 2023
4.3
4.3
Thomas Paine -- Collected Writings Common Sense; The Crisis; ... by Thomas Paine
Highest Rated on Goodreads
really liked it
4.00 average
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Nick’s first review of the year

it was amazing
I ran into someone who was going to try Faulkner for the first time and thought they would start with S&F, and I discouraged them, saying As I Lay Dying or Light in August might be better. However, I am ambivalent about those recommendations since S&F was written early in Faulkner's career and shows the stream-of-consciousness obsession he held better than probably any book he wrote.

The four sections of this book describe the id, ego, and supereg ...more
NICK’S 2023 BOOKS
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
it was amazing
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
In the Night Room by Peter Straub
Poetic Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Alfred Kazin
The Moons of Jupiter by Isaac Asimov
Music and Imagination by Aaron Copland
Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn
The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein
it was amazing
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
Feminine Endings by Susan McClary
Goebbels by Peter Longerich
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
This Time Together by Carol Burnett
Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship by Pierre Boulez
War by Sebastian Junger
it was amazing
Idol, Burning by Rin Usami
The Stranger by English Showalter
Zen Shiatsu by Shizuto Masunaga
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan
Sicker in the Head by Judd Apatow
Thomas Paine -- Collected Writings Common Sense; The Crisis; ... by Thomas Paine
Ketotarian by Will Cole
it was amazing
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Conscious Men by John Gray
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Fox by D.H. Lawrence
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
it was amazing
The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow
The Occult Conspiracy by Michael Howard
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Murder on a Yacht by Penelope Sotheby
The Parasite by Ramsey Campbell
Jealousy Filled Donuts by Ginger Bolton
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
Go Back for Murder by Agatha Christie
it was amazing
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Age Is Just a Number by Dara Torres
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
The Siberians by Farley Mowat
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
it was amazing
Zami by Audre Lorde
Flashbacks by Timothy Leary
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
The Coming of the White Man 1492-1848 by Herbert Ingram Priestly
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
New Under the Sun by Nancy Kress
All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace
it was amazing
The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas by Dannie Abse
One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young
Mint Chocolate Murder by Meri Allen
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress
Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill
Horses and Men by Sherwood Anderson
it was amazing
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich
Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
Stalking Ivory by Suzanne Arruda
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Sett... by Colin J. Hemer
Hunter's Horn by Harriette Simpson Arnow
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
Act of Mercy by Peter Tremayne
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
it was amazing
Babylon by Paul Kriwaczek
The Alibi Club by Francine Mathews
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua N. Winn
Champagne for Buzzards by Phyllis Smallman
The Moon of the Caribbees and Six Other Plays of the Sea by Eugene O'Neill
A Clean Kill by Michael Gilbert
it was amazing
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
In the Woods by Tana French
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Sontag by Benjamin Moser
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
A Clean Kill by Michael Gilbert

Nick’s last review of the year

it was amazing
The copy I received from Samuel French over a decade ago is 80 pages in length. It is a full length play.
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