Books of the Year 2023

According to Goodreads, I read 80 books in 2023. I was also given a wonderful bedside revolving-bookshelf-cabinet, shown above, as my birthday present from Gill. It fits the best part of 100 books. I have a shelf full of poetry books to dip into, another full of books of short stories and essays, again for random dives, another shelf of “in progress” reads, and the rest is “to read”. Or sometimes I just gaze at she shelves contentedly.

In recent years I have tended to read far more non-fictio...