2023 Reading List

I really enjoy keeping a record of what I read each year.

Titles marked with an * indicate it is designated as a censored or banned book in certain counties and states and at certain times.

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
The Last Days of Dog Town by Anita Diamant
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Spare by Prince Harry
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner
Carry by Toni Jensen
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum
Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Only Wet Babies Like Change by Dr. Mary-Frances Winters
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Sam by Allegra Goodman
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: a Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie by Lisa Napoli
The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity and Tradition ed by Elizabeth Mandel with JGirls Magazine
The Awakening by Kate Chopin*
The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice by Trevor Corson
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
Making Shabbat: Celebrating and Learning at American Jewish Summer Camps by Joseph Reimer
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Native Son by Richard Wright*
Drawing in the Dust by Zoe Klein
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
A Place Called Home by David Ambroz*
Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader
The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.*
And the Bride Closed the Door by Ronit Matalon
Without You There is No Us by Suki Kim
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan*
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
The Forgiving Kind by Donna Everhart
Congregation by Raphael Silver
The First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg
Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Judaism, Education and Social Justice: Towards a Jewish Critical Pedagogy by Matt Plen
Dialogue in Teaching by Nathan C. Burbules
The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith and the Talmud by Maggie Anton
House of Rain by Craig Childs
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
Ready or Not (All-American Girl #2) by Meg Cabot