Booklist 2023

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This was my sort of comment-to-be-added-sticky-post for 2023.
Now it's just a list of the books I read this year.
You can find my current reading-list on top of my LJ and DW:)



What I'm reading in 2023
How this list works: Book(s) I am in the middle of | Books I have read + date | link to review (or credit;) | DNF = Did not finish (gave up)

MY 2023 BOOKLIST
Left over books from 2022 (and before)

Lori Hand et.al.- Be More Japan (2019 Birthday gift from brother J.)

Simone de Beauvoir - Le Deuxième Sexe (Dutch translation, August 2021)

Louis Couperus - Van Oude Mensen, De Dingen Die Voorbij Gaan (October 2021) 25 MAR.

Edward v.d. Vendel & Ionica Smeets, illustrations: Floor de Goede - Rekenen voor je leven (for Children's Bookweek, October 2021) 6 JUN.

Katinka Polderman & Sophie Reinders - Zwerfgoed (October 2021)

Dave Eggers - The Every (Sinterklaas 2021) 28 FEB.

Arthur Japin - Kolja (2021 Birthdaygift Brotherdearest & Mom) 28 JAN.

Paul Gambino - Skulls, Portraits of the Dead (2021 Birthdaygift from Mom)

Major Detours - Zachary Serbi (August 2022) 22 JAN.

How To Be Alone (If You Want To, And Even If You Don't) - Lane Moore 16 JAN.

The Unpossessed - Tess Slesinger DNF OCT2023

Added in December 2022

Terra Ultima - Raoul Deleo

Christmas Books - Charles Dickens (2022 Birthdaygift from T.)

The Future is Female, volume 2 - the 1970s (2022 Birthdaygift from brother H.)

Madly, Deeply - The Alan Rickman Diaries (Birthdaygift from Mom) 9 JUL.

Fokke & Sukke; Het Afzien van 2022 - John Reid, Bastiaan Geleijnse & Jean-Marc van Tol 21 JAN.

Added in January

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler (Birthdaygift from J.) 24 FEB.

Added in February

Jheronimus Bosch, Visioenen van een Genie - Matthijs Ilsink & Jos Koldeweij

Vincent van Gogh, de Vroege Jaren - Teun Berserik 1 AUG.

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Kickstarter Black edition)

Added in March

Librorum Ridiculorum - Brian Lake

Faces in the Water - Janet Frame

The Collected Stories - Grace Paley 17 OCT.

The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy 6 APR.

Deep Water - Patricia Highsmith 6 AUG.

Een Meedogenloos Gehoor - Mauk Westerman Holstijn (bought for Bookweek2023) 17 APR.

De Eerlijke Vinder - Lize Spit (the free book for Bookweek2023) 23 MAY

Boto Banja - Raoul de Jong (the essay for Bookweek2023) 29 APR.

Pocket Auckland & The Bay of Islands, Top Sights - Lonely Planet 5 APR.

Added in April

Old Babes in the Woods - Margaret Atwood 16 MAY

Added in May

Zwolle 40-45 - Herman Aarts & Paul Harmens

Added in June

Can I Have My Ball Back? - Richard Herring 1 AUG.

De Schone Slaper e.a. verhalen - Jan Vander Laenen

Added in September

Kindred - Octavia E. Butler

Reisgids Merian live Elzas en Vogezen 24 SEP.

Rutger Hauer Autobiografie 30 SEP.

Reread in October

Een Hoofd Vol Macaroni - Guus Kuijer 2 OCT.

Het Raadsel van de Regenboog - Jacques Vriens 2 OCT.

Added in October

The Periodic Table Of Feminism - Marisa Bate

The Little Book of Shakespeare's Insults - Stella Caldwell

The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West

A View of the Harbour - Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles)

The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann

Added in November

This Book Will Send You To Sleep - K. McCoy & Hardwick [UK edition]

This Book *Will* Put You To Sleep - K. McCoy & Hardwick [USA edition]

Loitering with Intent - Muriel Spark

Added in December

Fortuna's Kinderen - Annejet van der Zijl (Sinterklaas 2023)

Het Lied van Ooievaar en Dromedaris - Anjet Daanje (Sinterklaas 2023)

Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These (2023 Birthdaygift from T.)

Tom Grimm - Het Onofficiële Kookboek voor Harry Potter Fans (2023 Birthdaygift from Mom)

Anjet Daanje - jl. (2023 Birthdaygift from Mom)

Anjet Daanje - De Herinnerde Soldaat (2023 Birthdaygift from J.)

Charlie MacKesy - The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse; the Animated Story - NLD translation by Arthur Japin (2023 Birthdaygift from M.)

Happy Reading! ~ J.
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