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Book Masterlist 2023

Here is where you can see a list of everything I read in 2023 and find links to any blog posts mentioning those books. To see my 2022 list, go here

January

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Observations by Gaslight 

Hither, Page [Page & Sommers 1]

A Dead Djinn in Cairo [The Dead Djinn Universe 1]

The Honjin Murders [Detective Kosuke Kindaichi 1]

The Missing Page [Page & Sommers 2]

The Factory Witches of Lowell 

All Systems Red [The Murderbot Diaries 1]

Our Wives Under the Sea  [1]

Curtsies & Conspiracies [Gail Carriger's Finishing School 2

Britt-Marie Was Here

Paris Dalliencourt is About to Crumble [Winner Bakes All 2] 

The Dictator's Wife

February

Tuesday Mooney Wore Black 

Paladin's Grace [Saint of Steel 1]

A Natural History of Dragons [Lady Trent 1]

Every Heart a Doorway [Wayward Children 1]

The Haunting of Tram Car 015  [The Dead Djinn Universe 2]

The Cat Who Saved Books

Tea and Sympathetic Magic [Teacup Magic 1]

When Women Were Dragons

Gideon the Ninth [Locked Tomb 1]

The Shepherd's Crown [Discworld 41]

The Fairie Hounds of York 

March

Notes on an Execution 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 

Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village 

To the Land of Long Lost Friends [No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 20]

The Hierarchies 

A Certain Hunger

April

The Binge Code

How to Sell a Haunted House 

Paladin's Strength [Saint of Steel 2]

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires  [1]

The King's Killer [Kings of Men 1]

How High We Go in the Dark 

[Re-read] Going Postal [Discworld 33]

Jumping Jenny [Roger Sheringham 9]

The Empress of Salt and Fortune [Singing Hills Cycle 1]

May

The Harpy 

The Botanist's Apprentice [Flos Magicae 1]

All Creatures Great and Small 

[Re-read] Making Money [Discworld 36]

[Re-read] Men at Arms  [Discworld 15]

Murder on the Intergalactic Railway [Ritchie & Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries 1]

Not All Himbos Wear Capes [Villainous Things 1]

June

Swordheart 

The Dance Tree 

Death of a Bookseller

July

Space Opera

Vesuvius by Night

A Marvellous Light

The Silver Pigs [Falco 1]

Several People Are Typing

We Had to Remove This Post 

August

Pompeii: Life in a Roman Town

Hen Fever

Goodbye to Berlin [Berlin Novels 2]

Prosper's Demon [Prosper's Demon 1]

A Terrible Kindness

Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Doctor John H. Watson

September

The Mercies

Inside Man [Prosper's Demon 2]

Women Talking

Somewhere Only We Know

This is How You Lose the Time War

Hide

October

Ring Shout

[Re-read] Feet of Clay [Discworld 19]

Mister Magic

Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

November

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors [Cthulhu Casebooks 4] [1]

Gentlemen Prefer Villains [Villainous Things 2]

The Cherry Robbers

Bloodlust & Bonnets 

The Book of Magic [Practical Magic 2]

The Watches of the Night

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Pine [1]

The Northern Lights Lodge

A Taste of Gold and Iron

Blue Ticket

We Sold Our Souls

Motherthing

Perfect Nonsense [Play]

Men Who Hate Women

Doctor Who: The Wonderful Doctor of Oz 

December

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

The Solstice Cabin [Flos Magicae 4]

The Windsor Knot

Mortal Follies 

The Appeal [The Appeal 1]

Hercule Poirot's Christmas  

Father Christmas's Fake Beard

The Christmas Appeal [The Appeal 1.5]

Let Your Hearts Be Light 

Murder for Christmas 

The Maidens

Murder Under the Christmas Tree 

Penance

O Little Town of Deathlehem

Icelandic Folktales 

My Life as a White Trash Zombie 

[Re-read] The Inimitable Jeeves

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Ghost Stories 


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