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
- The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
- A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki*
- Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler*
- Tress of the Emerald Sea – Brandon Sanderson
- Release – Patrick Ness
- Ducks – Kate Beaton
- Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
- Anatomy – Dana Schwartz
- The Mimicking of Known Successes – Malka Older
- Herland – Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
- The Fullness of Time – Kate Wilhelm
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Carmen Maria Machado (Editor)
- Provenance – Ann Leckie
- The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim*, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- The Frugal Wizard’s Guide to Medieval England – Brandon Sanderson
- Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
- Jirel of Jiory – C. L. Moore
- Cala – Laura Legge
- Imaginative Writing – Janet Burroway
- The Decagon House Murders – Yukito Ayatsuji*, Ho-Ling Wong (Translator)
- This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar*, Max Gladstone
- The Biggest Bluff – Maria Konnikova
- Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
- The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons – Sam Keen
- The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin
- Legends and Lattes – Travis Baldree
- Vi – Kim Thúy*
- The Best of Connie Willis – Connie Willis
- Camp Zero – Michelle Min Sterling*
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- Erewhon; Or, Over the Range – Samuel Butler
- The Unexpected Return of Josephine Cox – Claire Gradidge
- Candide – Voltaire
- Arch-Conspirator – Veronica Roth
- The Best of Judith Merril – Judith Merril
- The Terraformers – Annalee Newitz
- The Woman in Me – Britney Spears
- Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- Penric’s Fox – Lois McMaster Bujold
- System Collapse – Martha Wells
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Donut Fall in Love – Jackie Lau*
- The Terminal Experiment – Robert J. Sawyer
- Steering the Craft – Ursula K. LeGuin
- Neuromancer – William Gibson
- The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin
Goal to read by end of 2023
- Brown Girl in the Ring – Nalo Hopkinson*
- Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Polar Vortex – Shani Mootoo*
- The Sunlit Man – Brandon Sanderson Surprise Kickstarter Book #4
- Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold
Saved for 2024
Short Story Collections, average 2 short stories per week
- The Bloody Crown of Conan – Robert E. Howard
- Amazons! – edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Diana Gabaldon (Editor)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Veronica Roth (Editor)
- The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 – John Joseph Adam (Editor), Rebecca Roanhorse (Editor)
- 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)
- Chain-gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah*
- The Pattern Scars – Caitlin Sweet
- Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
- Trouble on Triton – Samuel R. Delany*
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- An Inheritance of Ashes – Leah Bobet
- The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki*
- Children of Ruin – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
Non-Fiction
- Wonderbook – Jeff Vandermeer
- Writing Fiction – Janet Burroway
- 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