2023: The Year in Books

Here is a list of books (or other long-form works) that I have read for the year. They will come in many formats (paper or pBooks; electronic or eBooks; audio or aBooks). I may mix format (I tend to maximize reading by synchronizing audiobooks and electronic books), the format totals at the end of this entry tell you what format I read for the majority of a particular title.

Number of books read (as of December 31, 2023): 206.

Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within an author, editor or authors or editors). 

Poul Anderson: The Broken Sword (eBook) (December). 

William Ashbless with Tim Powers and James Blaylock: On Pirates (pBook) (February). 

Iain M. Banks: The Culture 01—Consider Phlebas (eBook) (July). The Culture 02—Player of Games (eBook) (July). The Culture 03—Use of Weapons (eBook) (July). The Culture 04—The State of the Art (pBook) (August). The Culture 08—Matter (pBook) (November). 

Alfred A. Bell, Jr.: The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 04—Death in the Ashes (eBook) (April). The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 05—The Eyes of Aurora (eBook) (April). The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 06—Fortune's Fool (eBook) (December). 

Jorge Luis Borges: On Argentina (aBook) (July). On Writing (aBook) (July). The Sonnets (aBook) (October). A Universal History of Iniquity (aBook) (December). 

Ben Bova: Mars, Inc.—The Billionaire's Club (eBook) (May). 

Mark Bowden: Hue 1968—A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam (aBook) (February). 

Leigh Brackett: Stark 01—Ginger Star (eBook) (June). 

David Brin: Uplift 01—Sundiver (eBook) (October).

Bertrand R. Brinley: The Mad Scientists' Club 01—The Mad Scientists' Club (eBook) (June). The Mad Scientists' Club 02—The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club (eBook) (June). The Mad Scientists' Club 03—The Big Kerplop! (eBook) (June)

Kenneth Brower: The Starship & the Canoe (eBook) (June). 

Gaius Julius Caesar: The Conquest of Gaul (eBook) (December). 

Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others (eBook) (June).

Arthur C. Clarke: Space Odyssey 02—2010: Odyssey Two (eBook) (October). 

Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener: Atomic Robo 01—The Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne (eBook) (December). Atomic Robo 02—The Dogs of War (eBook) (December). Atomic Robo 03—Atomic Robo and The Shadow From Beyond Time (eBook) (December). Atomic Robo 04—Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness (eBook) (December). Atomic Robo 05—Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science (eBook) (December). Atomic Robo 06—Atomic Robo and The Ghost of Station X (eBook) (December). Atomic Robo 05—Atomic Robo and The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific (eBook) (December). 

Samuel R. Delany: Nova (eBook) (June). 

Scott Dickerson: Tom Swift Lives! 01—Tom Swift Reimagined—Flying Lab (eBook) (April). 

Ruth Downie: Gaius Petreius Ruso 01—Medicus (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 02—Terra Incognita (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 03—Persona Non Grata (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 04—Caveat Emptor (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 05—Semper Fidelis (ebook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 06—Tabula Rasa (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 07—Vita Brevis (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 08—Memento Mori (eBook) (December). Gaius Petreius Ruso 08.5—Prima Facie (eBook) (December). 

David Drake: At Any Price (eBook) (February). Rolling Hot (eBook) (February). Counting the Cost (eBook) (February). The Sharp End (eBook) (March). Paying the Piper (eBook) (March). The Complete Hammer's Slammers 1 (eBook) (April). The Complete Hammer's Slammers 2 (eBook) (May). The Complete Hammer's Slammers 3 (eBook) (May). 

George Dyson: Analogia—The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control (eBook) (September). 

Alex Finley: Victor Caro 01—Victor in the Rubble (eBook) (August). 

Kenneth F. Gantz: Not in Solitude (eBook) (June).

Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (aBook) (January). 

Max Hastings: Vietnam—An Epic Tragedy: 1945–1975 (eBook) (May).

Homer: The Iliad (Robert Fagles, Translator) (eBook) (November). 

Robert E. Howard: Bran Mak Morn—The Last King (eBook) (July). 

Barry Hughart: The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox (omnibus) 01—Bridge of Birds (eBook) (June). 02—The Story of the Stone (eBook). 03—Eight Skilled Gentlemen (eBook).

Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men (Omnibus) 01—Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (eBook) (August). 02—Three Men on the Bummel (eBook) (August). 

Raymond F. Jones: This Island Earth (eBook) (June).

Avigdor Kahalani: The Heights of Courage—A Tank Leader's War on the Golan (pBook) (October). 

Caitlin R. Kiernan: Tinfoil Dossier 01—Agents of Dreamland (eBook) (April) (December). Tinfoil Dossier 02—Black Helicopters (eBook) December). Tinfoil Dossier 03—The Tindalos Asset (eBook) (December). 

Michael Lewis: The Big Short—Inside the Doomsday Machine (eBook) (September). The Premonition—A Pandemic Story (eBook) (September). The Fifth Risk—Undoing Democracy (eBook) (September). Moneyball—The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (eBook) (September). 

R. A. MacAvoy: Black Dragon 01—Tea with the Black Dragon (aBook) (June). 

George R. R. Martin (editor): Wild Cards 01—Wild Cards (eBook) (December). 

Dave McKean: Dream States—The Collected Dreaming, Sandman Presents and Sandman Overture Covers 1997–2014. (pBook) (January). 

Nicholas Meyer: The West End Horror (pBook) (March). The Canary Trainer (pBook) (March).

Sergio Miller: In Good Faith—A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1—1945-64 (eBook) (July). 

Michael Moorcock: Elric 01 (Gallery/Saga Press Omnibus Collections 01)—Elric of Melnibone (omnibus edition; counted as four separate books) (eBook) (May).  Elric 02 (Gallery/Saga Press Omnibus Collections 02)—Stormbringer (omnibus edition; counted as four separate books) (eBook) (November). Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone 01—Elric: The Stealer of Souls (omnibus editon; counted as two separate books) (eBook) (November). The Elric Saga 013—The Citadel of Forgotten Myths (eBook) (December). 

Annalee Newitz: The Terraformers (eBook) (March). 

Larry Niven: A Hole in Space (eBook) (December). 

Alice Mary Norton  (writing as Andre Norton or Andrew North or Allen Weston): Solar Queen 01—Sargasso of Space (eBook) (January). Warlock (Omnibus): Forerunner 01—Storm Over Warlock (eBook) (January); Forerunner 02—Ordeal in Otherwhere (eBook) (February); Forerunner 03—Forerunner Foray (eBook) (July). Pax/Astra 01—The Stars Are Ours! (pBook) (January). Pax/Astra 02—Star Born (pBook) (January). Solar Queen 02—Plague Ship (eBook) (June). Moonsinger (Omnibus): Moonsinger 01—Moon of Three Rings (eBook) (July); Moonsinger 02—Exiles of the Stars (eBook) (July). Search for the Star Stones 01—The Zero Stone (eBook) (December). Search for the Star Stones 02—Uncharted Stars (eBook) (December). 

Alan E. Nourse: Raiders from the Rings (eBook) (July). Scavengers in Space (eBook) (July). Rocket to Limbo (eBook) (July). 

Malka Older: Mossa and Pleiti 01—The Mimicking of Known Successes (eBook) (March). 

Jay Parini: Borges  and Me (eBook) (June). 

K.J. Parker: Siege 03—A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (eBook) (April). Corax 01—Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (eBook) (December). 

Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody 07—The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (eBook) (March). Amelia Peabody 08—The Hippopotamus Pool (eBook) (May). 

Tim Powers: Medusa's Web (pBook) (January). The Anubis Gates (pBook) (January). The Stress of Her Regard (pBook) (January). Hide Me Among the Graves (pBook) (January). On Stranger Tides (pBook) (January). Down and Out in Purgatory (pBook) (February). Declare (pBook) (February). Fault Lines 01—Last Call (pBook) (October). 

Terry Pratchett: Discworld 02—The Light Fantastic (eBook) (April). Discworld 03—Equal Rites (eBook) (April). Discworld 04—Mort (eBook) (April). Discworld 05—Sourcery (eBook) (April). Discworld 06—Wyrd Sisters (eBook) (April). Discworld 07—Pyramids (eBook) (April). Discworld 08—Guards! Guards! (eBook) (May). Discworld 09—Eric (eBook) (May). Discworld 10—Moving Pictures (eBook) (June). Discworld 11—Reaper Man (eBook) (June). Discworld 12—Witches Abroad (eBook) (June). Discworld 13—Small Gods (eBook) (June). Discworld 14—Lords and Ladies (eBook) (August). Discworld 15—Men at Arms (eBook) (August). Discworld 16—Soul Music (eBook) (August). Discworld 17—Interesting Times (eBook) (August). Discworld 18—Maskerade (eBook) (September). Discworld 19—Feet of Clay (eBook) (September). Discworld 20—Hogfather (eBook) (September). Discworld 21—Jingo (eBook) (October). Discworld 22—The Last Continent (eBook) (October). Discworld 23—Carpe Jugulum (eBook) (October). A Blink at the Screen—Collected Shorter Fiction (eBook) (November). Discworld 24—The Fifth Elephant (eBook) (November). Discworld 25—The Truth (eBook) (November). Discworld 29—Night Watch (eBook) (December). 

Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (eBook) (August). 

John Maddox Roberts: SPQR 01—The King's Gambit (eBook) (May). 

Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu (eBook) (August). The Three Californias 01—The Wild Shore (eBook) (August). 

Steven Saylor: Roma Sub Rosa 01—Roman Blood (eBook) (May). 

P.W. Singer and August Cole: Ghost Fleet—A Novel of the Next World War (eBook) (August).

Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 04—The Maze of the Enchanter (eBook) (October).

E. E. "Doc" Smith: Lensman 01—Triplanetary (pBook) (March). Lensman 02—First Lensman (pBook) (May). Lensman 03—Galactic Patrol (pBook) (June). 

Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men (eBook) (July). 

Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (aBook) (June).

Charles Stross: The Laundry File 001—The Atrocity Archives (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 002—The Jennifer Morgue (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 003—The Fuller Memorandum (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 004—The Apocalypse Codex (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 005—The Rhesus Chart (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 006—The Annihilation Score (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 007—The Nightmare Stacks (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 008—The Delirium Brief (eBook) (February). Accelerando (eBook) (February).  Halting State 01—Halting State (eBook) (June). Halting State 02—Rule 34 (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 009—The Labyrinth Index (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 010—Dead Lies Dreaming (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 011—Quantum of Nightmares (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 012—Season of Skulls (eBook) (July).

Sun Tzu: The Art of War (eBook) (December). 

E.C. Tubb: Dumarest 04—Kalin (eBook) (December). Dumarest 05—The Jester at Scar (eBook) (December). Dumarest 06—Lallia (eBook) (December). Dumarest 07—Technos (eBook) (December). Dumarest 07—Veruchia (eBook) (December).

Jack Vance: The Demon Princes 01—The Star King (aBook) (March). The Demon Princes 02—The Killing Machine (aBook) (March). The Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth (aBook) (April). The Dying Earth 02—The Eyes of the Overworld (aBook) (April). Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga (aBook) (April). Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvelous (aBook) (April). The Demon Princes 03—The Palace of Love (aBook) (December). The Demon Princes 04—The Face (aBook) (December). The Demon Princes 05—The Book of Dreams (aBook) (December)

John Varley: Eight Worlds 01—The Ophiuchi Hotline (eBook) (June). 

James Webb: Fields of Fire (eBook) (May). 

Martha Wells: The Murderbot Diaries 01—All Systems Red (eBook) (December). The Murderbot Diaries 02—Artificial Condition (eBook) (December). The Murderbot Diaries 03—Rogue Protocol (eBook) (December). The Murderbot Diaries 04—Exit Strategy (eBook) (December). The Murderbot Diaries 05—Fugitive Telemetry (eBook) (December). The Murderbot Diaries 06—Network Effect (eBook) (December). The Murderbot Diaries 07—System Collapse (eBook) (December).

Andrew Wiest: The Vietnam War—1956-1975 (eBook) (February). 

Kate Wilhelm: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (aBook) (June). 

Walter Jon Williams: Hardwired 01—Hardwired (eBook) (July). 

Jack Williamson: Eldren 01—Lifeburst (eBook) (June).

Connie Willis: Oxford Time Travel 02—To Say Nothing of the Dog (eBook) (August). 

David Wishart: Marcus Corvinus 01—Ovid (eBook) (June). 

Roger Zelazny: A Night in the Lonesome October (eBook) (October). Lord of Light (pBook) (October). Doorways in the Sand (pBook) (October). Roadmarks (pBook) (October).

Books read in chronological order (master list): 001: Dream States (McKean). 002: The Maltese Falcon (Hammett). 003: The Atrocity Archives (Stross). 004: The Jennifer Morgue (Stross). 005: The Fuller Memorandum (Stross). 006: The Apocalypse Codex (Stross). 007: The Rhesus Chart (Stross). 008: Sargasso of Space (Norton). 009: The Annihilation Score (Stross). 010: Medusa's Web (Powers). 011: The Anubis Gates (Powers). 012: Storm Over Warlock (Norton). 013: The Stress of Her Regard (Powers). 014: The Stars Are Ours! (Norton). 015: Star Born (Norton). 016: Hide Me Among the Graves (Powers). 017: On Stranger Tides (Powers). 018: The Nightmare Stacks (Stross). 019: The Delirium Brief (Stross). 020: Ordeal in Otherwhere (Norton). 021: On Pirates (Ashbless, Powers and Blaylock). 022: Accelerando (Stross). 023: Down and Out in Purgatory (Powers). 024: Hue 1968 (Bowden). 025: Declare (Powers). 026: At Any Price (Drake). 027: Rolling Hot (Drake). 028: Counting the Cost (Drake). 029: The Vietnam War—1956-1975 (Wiest). 030: Triplanetary (Smith). 031: The Terraformers (Newitz). 032: The Mimicking of Known Successes (Older). 033: The Star King (Vance). 034: The West End Horror (Meyer). 035: The Canary Trainer (Meyer). 036: The Killing Machine (Vance). 037: The Sharp End (Drake). 038: Paying the Piper (Drake). 039: The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (Peters). 040: The Dying Earth (Vance). 041: The Eyes of the Overworld (Vance). 042: Cugel's Saga (Vance). 043: Rhialto the Marvelous (Vance). 044: Flying Lab (Dickerson). 045: The Light Fantastic (Pratchett). 046: Equal Rites (Pratchett). 047: Mort (Pratchett). 048: Sourcery (Pratchett). 049: Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett). 050: Death in the Ashes (Bell). 051: Pyramids (Pratchett). 052: The Eyes of Aurora (Bell). 053: A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (Parker). 054: Agents of Dreamland (Kiernan). 055: Hammer's Slammers 01 (Drake). 056: Vietnam—An Epic Tragedy: 1945–1975 (Hastings). 057: Hammer's Slammers 02 (Drake). 058: The Complete Hammer's Slammers 03 (Drake). 059: Medicus (Downie). 060: Terra Incognita (Downie). 061: Persona Non Grata (Downie). 062: Caveat Emptor (Downie). 063: Roman Blood (Saylor). 064: The King's Gambit (Roberts). 065: Semper Fidelis (Downie). 066: Tabula Rasa (Downie). 067: Vita Brevis (Downie). 068: Fields of Fire (Webb). 069: Mars, Inc. (Bova). 070: The Hippopotamus Pool (Peters). 071: Guards! Guards! (Pratchett). 072: First Lensman (Smith). 073: Eric (Pratchett). 074-077: Elric of Melnibone (omnibus) (Moorcock). 078: Snow Crash (Stephenson). 079: Moving Pictures (Pratchett). 080: Reaper Man (Pratchett). 081: Witches Abroad (Pratchett). 082: The Starship & the Canoe (Brower). 083: Borges  and Me (Parini). 084: Stories of Your Life and Others (Chiang). 085: Ovid (Wishart). 086: Ginger Star (Brackett). 087: Small Gods (Pratchett). 088: Nova (Delany). 089: Galactic Patrol (Smith). 090: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Wilhelm). 091: Plague Ship (Norton). 092: Bridge of Birds (Hughart). 093: Not in Solitude (Gantz). 094: Lifeburst (Williamson). 095: The Ophiuchi Hotline (Varley). 096: The Mad Scientists' Club (Brinley). 097: The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club (Brinley). 098: Halting State (Stross). 099: The Big Kerplop! (Brinley). 100: Tea with the Black Dragon (MacAvoy). 101: This Island Earth (Jones). 102: Consider Phlebas (Banks). 103: Forerunner Foray (Norton). 104: Moon of Three Rings (Norton). 105: Exiles of the Stars (Norton). 106: Raiders from the Rings (Nourse). 107: Rule 34 (Stross). 108: Scavengers in Space (Nourse). 109: Hardwired (Williams). 110: The Labyrinth Index (Stross). 111: Dead Lies Dreaming (Stross). 112: Rocket to Limbo (Nourse). 113: Quantum of Nightmares (Stross). 114: Season of Skulls (Stross).115: Bran Mak Morn (Howard). 116: Player of Games (Banks). 117; On Argentina (Borges). 118: On Writing (Borges). 119: Use of Weapons (Banks). 120: Last and First Men (Stapledon). 121: In Good Faith (Miller). 122: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Rhodes). 123: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Willis). 124: Ghost Fleet (Singer and Cole). 125: Lords and Ladies (Pratchett). 126: Men at Arms (Pratchett). 127: Soul Music (Pratchett). 128: Three Men in a Boat (Jerome). 129: Escape from Kathmandu (Robinson). 130: Interesting Times (Pratchett). 131 and 132: Three Men on a Boat/Three Men on the Bummel (Jerome). 133: The Wild Shore (Robinson). 134: Victor in the Rubble (Finley). 135: The State of the Art (Banks). 136: The Big Short (Lewis). 137: Analogia (Dyson). 138: The Premonition (Lewis). 139: The Fifth Risk (Lewis). 140: Moneyball (Lewis). 141: Maskerade (Pratchett). 142: Feet of Clay (Pratchett). 143: Hogfather (Pratchett). 144: Last Call (Powers). 145: The Heights of Courage (Kahalani). 146: A Night in the Lonesome October (Zelazny). 147: Lord of Light (Zelazny). 148: Doorways in the Sand (Zelazny). 149: The Sonnets (Borges). 150: 2010 (Clarke). 151: Roadmarks (Zelazny). 152: Jingo (Pratchett). 153: The Last Continent (Pratchett). 154: Carpe Jugulum (Pratchett). 155: The Maze of the Enchanter (Smith). 156: A Blink at the Screen—Collected Shorter Fiction (Pratchett). 157: Sundiver (Brin). 158: The Iliad (Homer). 159: Matter (Banks). 160: The Fifth Elephant (Pratchett). 161: The Truth (Pratchett). 162-165: Stormbringer (Moorcock). 166-167: The Stealer of Souls (Moorcock). 168: Agents of Dreamland (Kiernan). 169: Black Helicopters (Kiernan). 170: The Tindalos Asset (Kiernan). 171: All Systems Red (Wells). 172: The Conquest of Gaul (Caesar). 173: The Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne (Clevinger and Wegener). 174: The Art of War (Tzu). 175: Memento Mori (Downie). 176: Prima Facie (Downie). 177: Artificial Condition (Wells). 178: Exit Strategy (Wells). 179: Rogue Protocol (Wells). 180: Fugitive Telemetry (Wells). 181: Wild Cards (Martin) 182: The Palace of Love (Vance). 183: Kalin (Tubb). 184: The Dogs of War (Clevinger and Wegener). 185: Night Watch (Pratchett). 186: Atomic Robo and The Shadow From Beyond Time (Clevinger and Wegener). 187: The Broken Sword (Anderson). 188: The Jester at Scar (Tubb). 189: Lallia (Tubb). 190: The Face (Vance). 191: Technos (Tubb). 192: Atomic Robo & Other Strangeness (Clevinger and Wegener). 193: The Zero Stone (Norton). 194: Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science (Clevinger and Wegener). 195: Atomic Robo and The Ghost of Station X (Clevinger and Wegener). 196: Fortune's Fool (Bell). 197: Atomic Robo and The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific (Clevinger and Wegener). 198: Uncharted Stars (Norton). 199: Network Effect (Wells). 200: System Collapse (Wells). 201: The Book of Dreams (Vance). 202: The Citadel of Forgotten Myths (Moorcock). 203: A Universal History of Iniquity (Borges). 204: Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Parker). 205: A Hole in Space (Niven). 206: Veruchia (Tubb). 

Paper Books: 022.

Electronic Books: 165.

Audiobooks: 019.