2023 Reading Challenge

Initiated in this blog post, then revised in this one. This describes the code for the graph.

Slowing down at the end of September.

Books Read in 2023 So Far

Read

  1. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
  2. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  3. A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki*
  4. Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler*
  5. Tress of the Emerald Sea – Brandon Sanderson
  6. Release – Patrick Ness
  7. Ducks – Kate Beaton
  8. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
  9. Anatomy – Dana Schwartz
  10. The Mimicking of Known Successes – Malka Older
  11. Herland – Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
  12. The Fullness of Time – Kate Wilhelm
  13. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Carmen Maria Machado (Editor)
  14. Provenance – Ann Leckie
  15. The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim*, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
  16. The Frugal Wizard’s Guide to Medieval England – Brandon Sanderson
  17. Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
  18. Jirel of Jiory – C. L. Moore
  19. Cala – Laura Legge
  20. Imaginative Writing – Janet Burroway
  21. The Decagon House Murders – Yukito Ayatsuji*, Ho-Ling Wong (Translator)
  22. This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar*, Max Gladstone
  23. The Biggest Bluff – Maria Konnikova
  24. Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
  25. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons – Sam Keen
  26. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin
  27. Legends and Lattes – Travis Baldree
  28. Vi – Kim Thúy*
  29. The Best of Connie Willis – Connie Willis
  30. Camp Zero – Michelle Min Sterling*
  31. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  32. Erewhon; Or, Over the Range – Samuel Butler
  33. The Unexpected Return of Josephine Cox – Claire Gradidge
  34. Candide – Voltaire
  35. Arch-Conspirator – Veronica Roth
  36. The Best of Judith Merril – Judith Merril
  37. The Terraformers – Annalee Newitz
  38. The Woman in Me – Britney Spears
  39. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
  40. Penric’s Fox – Lois McMaster Bujold
  41. System Collapse – Martha Wells
  42. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  43. Donut Fall in Love – Jackie Lau*
  44. The Terminal Experiment – Robert J. Sawyer
  45. Steering the Craft – Ursula K. LeGuin
  46. Neuromancer – William Gibson
  47. The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin

Goal to read by end of 2023

  1. Brown Girl in the Ring – Nalo Hopkinson*
  2. Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
  3. Polar Vortex – Shani Mootoo*
  4. The Sunlit Man – Brandon Sanderson Surprise Kickstarter Book #4
  5. Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold

Saved for 2024

Short Story Collections, average 2 short stories per week

  1. The Bloody Crown of Conan – Robert E. Howard
  2. Amazons! – edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  3. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Diana Gabaldon (Editor)
  4. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Veronica Roth (Editor)
  5. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Rebecca Roanhorse (Editor)
  6. The New Women of Wonder – Pamela Sargent (Editor)

Novels

All Year:
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas*

Novels: average 1 per month (paper or ebook, not counting Audiobooks from the library)

  1. Chain-gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah*
  2. The Pattern Scars – Caitlin Sweet
  3. Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
  4. Trouble on Triton – Samuel R. Delany*
  5. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
  6. An Inheritance of Ashes – Leah Bobet
  7. The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki*
  8. Children of Ruin – Adrian Tchaikovsky
  9. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

Non-Fiction

  1. Wonderbook – Jeff Vandermeer
  2. Writing Fiction – Janet Burroway
  3. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat – Samin Nosrat*

Italics indicates a female or non-binary identifying author
Bold indicates a Canadian author
* indicates an author of colour