Rusty's 2023 Challenge

[Rusty]

Will try to read as many books on my shelves as I can, both those listed here on physically in my bookcases.

January:

The Laws of Murder by Charles Finch, 1/4/2023
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin, 1/4/2023
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, 1/6/2023
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James, 1/8/2023
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende, 1/9/2023
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides, 1/12/2022
Kopp Sisters on the March197] by Amy Stewart, 1/13/2023
The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon, 1/15/2023
The Quantum Thief by Hanny Rajaniemi, 1/16/2023
The Secret Diary of Anne Bolyn by Robin Maxwell, 1/17/2023
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher, 1/20/2023
Battle Ground by Jim Butcher, 1/22/2023
Freud's Mistress by Karen Mack, 1/23/2023
Proof of Guilt by Charles Todd, 1/26/2023
Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran, 1/26/2023
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie, 1/28/2023
The Haunted Abbot by Peter Tremayne, 1/28/2023
Marc Chagall by Howard Greenfeld, 1/29/2023
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, 1/31/2023
No Shred of Evidence by Charles Todd, 1/31/2023

February

Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr by Emily Carr, 2/2/2023
Atonement by Ian McEwan, 2/4/2023
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware, 2/5/2023
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul, 2/7/2023
The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, DNF, 2/28/2023
Grant Wood & Marvin Cone-87-P by Hazel E. Brown, 2/11/2023
My Brother, Grant Wood by Nan Wood Graham, 2/12/2022
A Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd, 2/15/2023
Erik Satie by Rollo H. Myers, 2/20/2023
The Tapestry by Nancy Bulyeau, 2/18/2023
Peril in Paris by Rhys Bowen, 2/19/2023
The Lady by Anne McCaffrey, 2/22/2023
Willa Cather: A Memoir by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 2/26/2023
Fizzles by Samuel Beckett, 2/27/2023
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett, 2/27/2023
Matchless by Gregory Maguire, 2/28/2023

MARCH

The Queen's Governess by Karen Harper, 3/2/2023
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky, 3/3/2023
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch, 3/4/2023
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch, 3/6/2023
Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, 3/6/2023
Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch, 3/10/2023
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka, 3/10/2023
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather, 3/12/2023
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, 3/16/2023
Winslow Homer in London: A New York Artist Abroad by David Tatham, 3/18/2023
Gunnar's Daughter, by Sigrid Undset, 3/16/2023
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, 3/17/2021
Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art by George Morrison, 3/26/2023
The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda, 3/18/2023
Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday, 3/20/2023
The Time of the Dark by Barbara Hambly, 3/21/2023
A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones, 3/23/2023
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: A Guide to the Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 3/25/2023
In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende, 3/9/2023
The Walls of Air by Barbara Hambly, 3/31/2023

APRIL

Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison by Kay Walkingstick, 4/3/2023
The Armies of Daylight by Barbara Hambly, 4/3/2023
Rosie: My Rufous Hummingbird by Arnette Heidcamp, 4/9/2023
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor, 4/30/2023
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon, 4/10/2023
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini, 4/16/2023
A Useful Woman by Darcie Wilde, 4/20/2023

MAY

Good Time Coming by C.S. Harris, 5/4/2023
A Mind to Murder by P.D. James, 5/7/2023
Ilium by Dan Simmons, 5/9/2023
The Ancestor: A Novel by Danielle Trussonim 5/11/2023
It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State by Jonathan Starr, 5/14/2023
Y by Marjorie Celona, 5/13/2023
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History by by Lewis Buzbee, 5/15/2023
A Desperate Fortune, 5/18/2023
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune, 5/20/2023
False Value by Ben Aaronovitch, 5/22/2023
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos, 5/26/2023
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict, 5/30/2023

JUNE

No Graves As Yet by Anne Perry, 6/2/2023
The Infinity Concerto, 6/3/2023
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni, 6/10/2023
Veracity by Laura Bynum, 6/13/2023
Emily's Ghost by Denise Giardina, 6/13/2023
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis, 6/16/2023
Piranèse by Susanna Clarke, 6/19/2023
What the Devil Knows by by Susanna Clarke, 6/21/2023
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, 6/24/2024
Young PioneersYoung Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane, 6/27/2023
The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear, 6/28/2023

JULY

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick, 7/2/2023
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve, 7/8/2023
Mary Rose by Geoffrey Girard, 7/19/2023
The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks, 7/13/2023
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, 7/14/23]The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley, 7/15/2023
Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers, 7/18/2023
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, 7/23/2023
Passenger by Lisa Lutz, 7/25/2023

AUGUST

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV, 8/2/2023
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo, 8/5/2023
Horse by Geraldine Brooks, 8/7/2023
The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner, 8/13/2023
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli, 8/18/2023
Legend by Marie Lu, 821/2023
The Extraordinaries, 8/28/2023
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, 8/29/2023

SEPTEMBER

Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien, 9/2/2023
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers, 9/3/2023
How to Speak Dog: A Guide to Decoding Dog Language by Aline Alexander Newman, 9/6/2023
Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers, 9/8/2023
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson, 9/10/2023
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman, 9/12/2023
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Ben Mezrich, 9/13/2023
Imager by L.E. Modesitt Jr., 9/19/2023
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, 9/26/2023
Before I Go by Colleen Oakley, 9/28/2023
Becoming Bonnie by Jenni L. Walsh, 9/30/2023

OCTOBER

Tai-Pan by James Clavell, 10/7/2023
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin, 9/9/2023
The Darkest Road by Guy Gavriel Kay,10/12/2023
The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson, 10/14/2023
Winds of Fate by Mercedes Lackey, 10/19/2023
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, 19/22/2023
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian, 10/25/2023
Leaving Lucy Pear by Anna Solomon, 19/28/2023
The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing
Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu, 10/29/2023by Stanisław Lem, 10/2023
Solaris, by, 10/31/2023

NOVEMBER

A Temptation of Angels by Michelle Zink, 11/2/2023
Seven Perfect Things by Catherine Ryan Hyde, 11/4/2023
Castle Shade by Laurie R. King, 11/7/2023
Slow Awakening by Catherine Marchant, 11/9/2023
Heartstone/2023 by C.J. Sansom, 11/14/2023
The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan,11/16/2023
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett, 11/19/2023
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende, 11/21/2023
The Dali Lama's Cat by David Michie, 11/30/2023

DECEMBER

Viperhand by Douglas Niles, 12/3/2023
Of Things Unknown by Seanan McGuire, 12/4/2023
Suffer a Sea-Change by Seanan McGuire, 12/6/2023
The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley, 12/8/2023
The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire, 12/10/2023
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls, 12/11/2023
A Terrible Fall of Angels by Laurell K. Hamilton, 12/12/2023
Guardian of the Gate by Michelle Zink, 12/15/2023The Borgia BrideThe Borgia Bride
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal, 12/17/2023
Weyward by Emilia Hart, 12/21/2023
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel, 12/26/2923
The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis, 12/31/2023

[Juli, Moderator]

Great progress so far! Welcome back!

[Elyse, Moderator]

Rusty wrote: "Will try to read as many books on my shelves as I can, both those listed here on physically in my bookcases.

January:
Peace Talks..."

Someday I'll start The Dresden Files. lol