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2023
My Year in Books
20,752
pages read
68
books read


Sword & Spore by Dominica Phetteplace
Shortest Book
32
pages
The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
Longest Book
768
pages

Average book length in 2023
305
pages

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Most Shelved
682,006
people also shelved
Slavery in History by Adam G. de Gurowski
Least Shelved
15
people also shelved

Adam ’s average rating for 2023
3.5
3.5

Night Fears by Eric      Williams
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.89 average

Into the Hills, Young Master by Alex Branson

Adam ’s first review of the year

it was amazing
A young man on the quest to form the perfect opinion. Made me cringe with recognition. A great novel about the internet without really featuring the internet.

ADAM ’S 2023 BOOKS
Into the Hills, Young Master by Alex Branson
it was amazing
The Age of Charles Martel by Paul Fouracre
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
The Ball At Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac
The People Opposite by Georges Simenon
Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
Sleepwalking Into a New World by Chris Wickham
The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney
Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel
it was amazing
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle by Takiji Kobayashi
A Lonely Man by Chris  Power
The Lone Woman by Bernardo Atxaga
Forbidden Rites by Richard Kieckhefer
Sword & Spore by Dominica Phetteplace
A Private Affair by Beppe Fenoglio
it was amazing
The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
Drive My Car by Haruki Murakami
The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock
No Go, the Bogeyman by Marina Warner
Avalon by Nell Zink
it was amazing
Chronicles by Jean Froissart
Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer
The Venice Train by Georges Simenon
The Acadian Exiles by Arthur George Doughty
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Escape from Rome by Walter Scheidel
Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler
Nova Scotia Politics 1945-2020 by Graham Steele
Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham
it was amazing
Nothing But the Night by John  Williams
The Lost Detective by Nathan Ward
Irresistible North by Andrea di Robilant
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
The Road to Middle-Earth by Tom Shippey
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte
The Ruling Clawss by Syd Hoff
Dark Satellites by Clemens Meyer
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin
it was amazing
Valentino / Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan
Slavery in History by Adam G. de Gurowski
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally  Hayden
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West by Jamie Kreiner
The Emperor and the Elephant by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford
If We Burn by Vincent Bevins
it was amazing
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
The Phantom Blooper by Gustav Hasford
Fire Weather by John Vaillant
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
Love by Hanne Ørstavik
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
The Classic Treasury Of Aesop's Fables by Don Daily
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
At the Ocean's Edge by Margaret Conrad
Night Fears by Eric      Williams
it was amazing

Night Fears by Eric      Williams

Adam ’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Three Low Masses by Alphonse Daudet. The first story of the book and already we have something instantly becoming one of my all time favourite stories. The Devil himself infiltrates a church in an effort to get the oafish priest to sin. The central image of (view spoiler) ...more
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