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Favorite Reads of 2023
In no particular order....

Favorite Fiction
The Forest of Wool and Steel, Natsu Miyashita
Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks
All Passion Spent, Vita Sackville-West
The Girls, Edna Ferber
Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell
A Child of the Jago, Arthur Morrison
*Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
*Washington Square, Henry James
*These last 3 are all classic works that I should have read years ago, but I was positive I wouldn't like them...and I was SO wrong. It pays (once in a while) to read stuff you think you won't like.

Favorite Nonfiction
The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green--essays
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days that Changed her Life, Lucy Worsley--biography
Secret Harvests, David Mas Masumoto--memoir
Unearthing the Secret Garden, Maria McDowell--biography
My Life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead--memoir
Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster-

Favorite Re-reads
The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr
The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope
Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Here are my 2024 threads:
75ers: https://www.librarything.com/topic/356771#
Category Challenge https://www.librarything.com/topic/355880#