The Year In Reading 2023

• Prize Stories From The 1970s O. Henry Awards (B+)
• Elton John: Me (B+)
• Roberto Bolaño: Antwerp (B)
• Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated (C-)
• Raymond Chandler: The Long Goodbye (A+)
• Paula Fox: Desperate Characters (B+)
• Ken Follett: The Man From St. Petersburg (B)
• Mario Puzo: The Godfather (A+)
• Ray Bradbury: Death Is A Lonely Business (C+)
• John Grisham: The Pelican Brief (B-)
• E. F. Benson: Queen Lucia (C)
• Annie Ernaux: Getting Lost (B+)
• Robert Nye: Merlin (D-)
• The Best American Mystery Stories Of The Century (B+)
• A. E. Hotchner: Doris Day: Her Own Story (B)
• Tobias Wolff: Old School (B+)
• Sherwood Anderson: A Story Teller's Story (D)
• Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot (B)
• Anthony Hope: The Prisoner Of Zenda (A+)
• Malcolm Cowley: Exile's Return (C)
• Graham Greene: Orient Express (F)
• Iain Pears: The Portrait (B-)
• Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed (A)
• Gerald Durrell: The Mockery Bird (B)
• J. Edgar Hoover: Masters Of Deceit (F)
• John Mortimer: The First Rumpole Omnibus (B-)
• Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End (B+)
• Michael Riedel: Razzle Dazzle (C+)
• Diana Vreeland: D. V. (A)
• Gore Vidal: Duluth (A+)
• Doris Lessing: The Habit Of Loving (C+)
• Doris Lessing: The Real Thing (B)
• Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book Of Food And Drink (B)
• Isak Dinesen: Daguerreotypes (C)
• David Niven: The Moon's A Balloon (B+)
• David Niven: Bring On The Empty Horses (A)
• Laurence Olivier: Confessions Of An Actor (A)
• Michael Lewis: Liar's Poker (B-)
• Robin Moore: The French Connection (A-)
• John Simon: Paradigms Lost (F)
• Ken Follett: Never (B+)
• Nolan Ryan: Miracle Man (B)
• Graham Moore: The Last Days Of Night (B)
• Jay McInerney: The Last Of The Savages (C)
• Eric Newby (ed.): A Book Of Travellers' Tales (A+)
• James A. Michener: Legacy (A+)
• Robert Stone: Outerbridge Reach (D+)
• Calvin Trillin: Quite Enough Of (A+)
• Dorothy B. Hughes: The Expendable Man (B+)
• Jay McInerney: Bright Lights, Big City (A)
• Steven Millhauser: Dangerous Laughter (B+)
• John Simon: On Film (D)
• Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair At Styles (A+)
• John Irving: Setting Free The Beas (**)
• Gerold Frank: Judy (B)
• Richard A. Lertzman and William J. Barnes: The Life And Times Of Mickey Rooney (B-)
• D. H. Lawrence: The Virgin And The Gypsy (A)
• Jean Giono: The Horseman On The Roof (C)
• Theodore Zeldin: The French (B)
• Edwin Newman: Sunday Punch (C-)
• Albert Camus: American Journals (A+)
• Theodore R. Cogswell and Charles A. Spano, Jr.: Spock, Messiah! (C)
• Scott Turow: One L (B-)
• Robert Crichton: The Secret Of Santa Vittoria (B)
• Ken Kesey: Sailor Song (D+)
• John O'Hara: The Ewings (A)
• Steven Gaines: Heroes And Villains (B+)
• Graham Greene: The Human Factor (A+)
• Rosalind Russell: Life Is A Banquet (A+)
• E. L. Doctorow: City Of God (D)
• William Maxwell: The Outermost Dream (B+)
• G. K. Chesterton: Tremendous Trifles (C-)
• George Plimpton: Truman Capote (A+)
• Herman Koch: The Dinner (B)
• William Goldman: Control (C)
• Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee: The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail (A+)
• Joan Crawford: My Way Of Life (F)
• Charles Portis: True Grit (A+)
• Sebastian Junger: A Death In Belmont (A-)
• Michael Frayn: Headlong (B+)
• Agatha Christie: Poirot Investigates (A+)
• E. L. Doctorow: Homer & Langley (A+)
• Lillian Ross: Picture (A-)
• Stefan Zweig: Chess (A+)
• Calvin Trillin: Floater (B-)
• E. M. Forster: A Room With A View (A-)
• Ruth Rendell: From Doon With Death (A+)
• E. M. Forster: Abinger Harvest (B)
• Thomas Heggen: Mister Robers (C+)
• William Golding: The Spire (D-)
• Philip Roth: Sabbath's Theater (C)
• George Plimpton: The Man In The Flying Lawn Chair (A)
• Harry Kemelman: Conversations With Rabbi Small (B)
• David McCullough: Truman (A)
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: Robert Kennedy And His Times (B-)
• Bruce Shlain: Oddballs (A)
• Larry Tye: Demagogue (A-)
• Rick Perlstein: Nixonland (B+)
• Martin Cruz Smith: Stallion Gate (B)
• Jeffrey Archer: A Twist In The Tale (B-)
• Ross Macdonald: Find A Victim (A+)
• Alastair Cooke: Six Men (D)
• Arthur Hailey and John Castle: Runway Seven-Eight (B+)
• Mary Gordon: Final Payments (C-)
• Joseph Heller: Closing Time (B+)
• John Mortimer: Clinging To The Wreckage (A-)
• Granta 61 "The Sea" (B)
• Julian Symons: The Blackheath Poisonings (B-)
• Robert Barnard: Fête Fatale (C+)
• André Gide: The Immoralist (B+)
• Nelson W. Aldritch, Jr. (ed.): George, Being George (A+)
• Vladimir Voinovich: The Fur Hat (C+)
• Ruth Rendell: Make Death Love Me (B)
• Ira Levin: The Boys From Brazil (A+)
• Bruno Schulz: The Street Of Crocodiles (C+)
• Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm (B-)
• Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward (C-)
• Fred Kaplan: Gore Vidal (B)
• Hugh Greene (ed.): Cosmopolitan Crimes (B+)
• Kitty Kelley: His Way (A)
• Truman Capote: Breakfast At Tiffany's (A+)
• Candice Millard: Destiny Of The Republic (A-)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful And Damned (C)
• James Simon Kunen: The Strawberry Statement (A-)
• Sam Staggs: Finding Zsa Zsa (A-)
• Cormac O'Brien: Secret Lives Of The U.S. Presidents (A)
• Julian Barnes: Through The Window (B+)
• Evan S. Connell: Mr. Bridge And Mrs. Bridge (A)
• Thomas Harris: Black Sunday (A)
• Ben MacIntyre: Agent Zigzag (A-)
• Marion Davies: The Times We Had (A+)
• J. B. Priestley: Salt Is Leaving (B)
• Ruth Rendell: Thirteen Steps Down (D+)
• Graham Greene: Travels With My Aunt (A)
• Louis Nizer: The Implosion Conspiracy (B)
• Leonardo Sciascia: Open Doors (C+)
• Vladimir Nabokov: Mary (B)
• William Kennedy: Legs (B+)
• Agatha Christie: Evil Under The Sun (A+)
• Michael Shaara: The Noah Conspiracy aka The Herald (D+)
• Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast (A+)
• Marie-Françoise Allain: The Other Man (A+)
• Dominick Dunne: Another City, Not My Own (D-)
• Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson (C)
• Mavis Gallant: Paris Stories (B)
• David Robinson: Chaplin: His Life And Art (A)
• Carol Burnett: One More Time (A)
• Carol Burnett: This Time Together (A)
• Philip Roth: The Human Stain (B)
• Robert Harris: Pompeii (C-)
• Anthony Lewis: Gideon's Trumpet (C+)
• Brian Moore: An Answer From Limbo (B)
• Robert Nye: Mrs Shakespeare (C+)
• Julian Barnes: Levels Of Life (A)
• Donald Spoto: The Dark Side Of Genius: The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock (A-)
• Heinrich Mann: Man Of Straw (B)
• Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World (A-)
• Edgar Box (Gore Vidal): Death In The Fifth Position (A-)
• Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology Of Humorous Writing From The New Yorker (B)
• Thomas Tryon: Harvest Home (A+)
• General Sir John Hackett & Other Top-Ranking NATO Generals & Advisors: The Third World War: August 1985 (F)
• Michael Dibdin: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (F)
• Lawrence S. Ritter: The Glory Of Their Times (A+)
• Norman Mailer: Mind Of An Outlaw (B-)
• John Williams: Stoner (B+)
• Selina Hastings: Evelyn Waugh (B)
• Sidney Reilly: Adventures Of a British Master Spy (C+)
• Jose Saramago: Blindness (A+)
• Classic Horror Stories (B+)
• Beryl Bainbridge: Every Man For Himself (C)
• Pete Dexter: Train (A-)
• Edwin O'Connor: The Last Hurrah (A+)
• John Steinbeck: Travels With Charley (A+)
• Mark Salzman: Lost In Place (B+)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis (C)
• James Gould Cozzens: Morning Noon And Night (D)
• Ruth Rendell: Sins Of The Fathers (A+)
• Julian Barnes: Nothing To Be Frightened Of (B+)
• Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (A+)
• P. D. James: A Mind To Murder (B-)
• A. S. Byatt: Angels & Insects (B+)
• Thomas Thompson: Serpentine (A)
• William Hjortsberg: Jubilee Hitchhiker (A)
• Agatha Christie: The A. B. C. Murders (A+)
• Robert Musil: Five Women (B-)
• Jay Parini: Empire Of Self (A+)
• Pete Dexter: The Paperboy (B)
• Thomas Thompson: Blood And Money (A-)
• Ignacio Padilla: Antipodes (C+)
• Vladimir Nabokov: Glory (A-)
• English Country House Murders (A-)
• Trevanian: The Eiger Sanction (B-)
• William Lindsay Gresham: Nightmare Alley (B)
• Kenneth Koch & Kate Farrell: Sleeping On The Wing (B+)
• Yasunari Kawabata: Thousand Cranes (C+)
• Jean Stein/George Plimpton: Edie (D)
• Anne Tyler: Breathing Lessons (B)
• Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (B)
• Ruth Rendell: The Babes In The Wood (B+)
• Saul Bellow: Letters (B)
• Pete Dexter:  Spooner (B)
• Granta 46  "Crime" (C)
• Keith Richards:  Life (C-)
• Pete Dexter:  Paris Trout (A-)
• Barry Hannah:  High Lonesome (C)
• Eric Newby:  The Big Red Train Ride (B+)