A non-exhaustive list of books I read in 2023, filtered to include only books I would recommend.

Roughly in the order in which I read them.

I put a star by the ones I really love.

Science

An Immense World by Ed Yong

Immune by Philipp Dettmer

Gut by Giulia Enders

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben – my review

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman – my review

Connected by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler

Citizen Scientist by Mary Ellen Hannibal

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Society

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

A Hacker’s Mind by Bruce Schneier

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez

Memoir

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche

A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman

Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard

Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel

Fiction

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli

Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Short story collections

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

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