Books 2023

January
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
Monstress book 1, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (comic)
Monstress book 2, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (comic)
Flint and Mirror, John Crowley
The Prince of the Skies, Antonio Iturbe (tr. Lilit Žekulin Thwaites)
Fractured Infinity, Nathan Tavares
A Half-Built Garden, Ruthanna Emrys

February
Children of Memory, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, Juno Dawson
Arch-Conspirator, Veronica Roth (novella)
The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe
The Past is Red, Catherynne Valente (novella, reread)
The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe

March
The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe
The Saint of Bright Doors, Vajra Chandrasekera
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower, Tamsyn Muir

April
The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
Furious Heaven, Kate Elliott
A River Enchanted, Rebecca Ross
Dead Country, Max Gladstone
The Dispatcher: Travel by Bullet, John Scalzi (novella)

May
The Archive Undying, Emma Mieko Candon
Prophet, Helen Macdonald and Sin Blache
Jade Shards, Fonda Lee (novella)
Escaping Exodus, Nicky Drayden

June
Under the Skin, KJ Parker (short story collection)
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein
No Choice, KJ Parker (novella)
Translation State, Ann Leckie
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Andrew Doerr

July
Titanium Noir, Nick Harkaway
Frontier, Grace Curtis
The Seventh Perfection, Daniel Polansky (novella)
The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume 1 (short story collection)
Wolverine, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller (comic)

August
Yellowstone, David Quammen
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Tom King and Bilquis Evely (comic)
Sparrow Envy, J Drew Lanham (poetry/short prose collection)
The Salvation Gambit, Emily Skrutskie
Exadelic, Jon Evans
X-Men: Grand Design, Ed Piskor (comic)
Demon Days, Peach Momoko (comic)
The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton (comic)
Hawkeye: Private Eye, Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero (comic)

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