What I read in 2023, the list.
How to read this list:
* = Recommend
** = Really recommend
NC = No comment (or, really, do not bother)
RR = Re-read
F = Fiction
NF = Non-fiction
P = Plays
Titles and micro-reviews of what I read over the last year. Not many great ones, but a few interesting gems amidst the mid for sure,
Previous lists can be found here and here and here and here.
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (F **)
- Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace (F**)
- Crossroad – Jonathan Franzen (F)
- It’s Mine – Steven Sidley (NF*)
- Essays – Emmerson (NF*)
- The Pale King – David Foster Wallace (F*)
- Why Visit America – Matthew Baker (F**)
- Piranesi – Susanna Clark (F)
- Black Hole – Charles Burns (F)
- The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles (F*)
- Shame – Salmon Rushdie (F)
- Under the Jaguar Sun – Italo Calvino (F)
- Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon (F)
- Pygmy – Chuck Palahniuk (F*)
- The Promise – Damon Galgut (F)
- Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart (F)
- Falling Man – Don Delillo (F*)
- Briar Rose – Jane Yolen (F)
- The Boy the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackery (F)
- Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatjie (F)
- Debt, the 1st 5,000 years – David Greaber (NF**)
- Kariba – Daniel and James Clark (F)
- A Stroke of the Pen – Terry Pratchett (F*)
- Tree and Leaf – Tolkien (F*)
- H is for Hawk – Helen McDonald (F*)
- Wild – Cheryl Strayed (NF)
- Tank Girl – Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett (F)
- Love – Tony Morrison (F**)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway (F*)
- Jung’s Circle of Women – Maggy Anthony (NF)
- Where Did You Go, Bernadette? – Maria Semple (F*)
- African Salad – Stan Engelbrecht and Tamsen de Beer
- Blindness – José Saramago (F)
- Bad Behaviour – Mary Gatskill (F*)
- The Time Regulation Institute – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (F)
- Genius – Bruce Whitfield (NF)
- The Managerial Revolution – James Burnham (NF)
- The Good the Bad and the Ugly Scenarios – Ray Hartley & Greg Mills (NF)
- What’s Our Problem? – Tim Urban (NF)
- Superabundance – Marian Tupy and Gale Pooly (NF)
- Future Cultures – Scott Smith and Susan Coxx Smith (NF)
- The Palliative Society – Byung-Chul (NF)
- Citizens – Ariane Conrad and Jon Alexander (NF)
- A Tale of Two Agricultures – Wandile Sihlobo (NF)
- The Confidence Map – Peter Atwater (NF)
- This Changes Everything – Naomi Klein (NC -NF)
- Tom Woolf – From Bauhaus to Our House (NF**)
- Man and Technics – Oswald Spengler (NF)
- Small Business, Big Plans – Catherine Black and Belinda Mountain (NF)
- Profiler Diaries – Gerard Labaschange (NF)
- Clare – Christopher Clarke (NF)
- Samurai Sword Murder – Nicole Engenbracht (NF)
- Daisy De Melker – Ted Botha (NF*)
- The Plot to Save South Africa – Justice Malala (NF*)
- Manifesto – Songezo Zibi
- Rescuing Our Republic – Bronwyn Williams and Ludwig Raal (NF** 😉