(2023) read: 52 / goal: n.a. / JRI: 5

[kareila]

My total number of new books read is down for the second straight year - I've mostly focused instead on consistency, making sure I read for at least a few minutes each day in order to keep my Storygraph streak intact. Still, even though Storygraph says each book took me an average of 20 days to finish, at least I hit 52, for an average of one book per week, since I was reading multiple books at once. (Storygraph thinks I read 62 books this year, but it includes rereads and minor works.)

#	JRI	Author	Title	✭	Series
1		Thomas Dolby	The Speed of Sound	4
2		Mary Robinette Kowal	The Spare Man	4
3		Scotto Moore	Battle of the Linguist Mages	4
4		Steven Hyden	This Isn't Happening	3
5		Marie Benedict	The Only Woman in the Room	3
6		Nghi Vo	Into the Riverlands	4	Singing Hills Cycle #3
7		Greg Milner	Perfecting Sound Forever	5
8		A. Deborah Baker	Into the Windwracked Wilds	3	Up-and-Under #3
9		Hayley Arceneaux	Wild Ride	4
10		Natasha Pulley	The Watchmaker of Filigree Street	4	Watchmaker of Filigree Street #1
11		Seanan McGuire	Lost in the Moment and Found	4	Wayward Children #8
12	X	V.E. Schwab	A Darker Shade of Magic	3	Shades of Magic #1
13		Ann Leckie	Translation State	4
14		John Urschel	Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football	4
15		Jason Fagone	The Woman Who Smashed Codes	4
16		Becky Chambers	A Prayer for the Crown-Shy	4	Monk and Robot #2
17		Harvey Sachs	Ten Masterpieces of Music	3
18		Gavin Edwards	VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave	3
19		Malka Ann Older	The Mimicking of Known Successes	4	Mossa & Pleiti #1
20		Tom Felton	Beyond the Wand	3
21		T. Kingfisher	Thornhedge	4
22		Meg Shaffer	The Wishing Game	3
23		Ross Mitchell	The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea	5
24		Patrick Stewart	Making It So: A Memoir	4
25		Martha Wells	Witch King	4	The Rising World #1
26		Nghi Vo	Mammoths at the Gates	4	Singing Hills Cycle #4
27		Meredith Bagby	The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel	5
28	X	Andy Weir	Artemis	4
29	X	Margaret Lazarus Dean	Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight	4
30		A. Deborah Baker	Under the Smokestrewn Sky	3	Up-and-Under #4
31		Seanan McGuire	Seasonal Fears	2	Alchemical Journeys #2
32		Rick Riordan	Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods	3
33		Martha Wells	System Collapse	4	The Murderbot Diaries #7
34	X	Homer Hickam Jr.	Rocket Boys	4
35		Kate Zernike	The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science	4
36		Nancy Springer	Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons	3	Enola Holmes #6.5
37		Malinda Lo	A Scatter of Light	3
38		Emma Chapman	First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time	3
39		Michael Bronski	A Queer History of the United States (adaptation "for Young People" by Richie Chevat)	3
40	X	Alex Speier	Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up	4
41		Charlie Jane Anders	Never Say You Can’t Survive: How To Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories	3
42		Fonda Lee	Untethered Sky	3
43		Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro	The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure	3
44		Patrick Bringley	All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me	3
45		Lulu Miller	Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life	3
46		C. M. Surrisi	The Bones of Birka: Unraveling the Mystery of a Female Viking Warrior	3
47		Jane Leavy	Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy	3
48		Jeff Kosseff	The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet	3
49		Jeff Pearlman	The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson	3
50		Robin Gerber	Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her	3
51		Katie Porter	I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan	3
52		Eugenia Cheng	Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths	3