{"id":6434,"date":"2024-01-04T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2024-01-04T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:52:49","slug":"books-read-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/6434","title":{"rendered":"Books read in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of a lackluster year in books for me, but here it is. The highlight of the year may have been that I finished (and even enjoyed) my first audio book ever.<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Blue Desert<\/em> by Charles Bowden<br \/>\n2. <em>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em> by Ursula LeGuin<br \/>\n3. <em>Demon Copperhead<\/em> by Barbara Kingsolver<br \/>\n4. <em>Chorus<\/em> by Rebecca Kauffman<br \/>\n5. <em>The House on Fripp Island<\/em> by Rebecca Kauffman<br \/>\n6. <em>The Gunners<\/em> by Rebecca Kauffman<br \/>\n<strong>7. <em>Station Eleven<\/em> by Emily St. John Mandel<\/strong><br \/>\n8. <em>Faces in the Crowd<\/em> by Valeria Luiselli<br \/>\n<strong>9. <em>Headed into the Wind<\/em> by Jack Loeffler<\/strong><br \/>\n10. <em>The Crossing<\/em> by Michael Connelly<br \/>\n11. <em>The Wrong Side of Goodbye<\/em> by Michael Connelly<br \/>\n12. <em>The Late Show<\/em> by Michael Connelly<br \/>\n<strong>13. <em>Sea of Tranquility<\/em> by Emily St. John Mandel<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>14. <em>Grizzly Years<\/em> by Doug Peacock<\/strong><br \/>\n15. <em>Two Kinds of Truth<\/em> by Michael Connelly<br \/>\n16. <em>Unlikely Animals<\/em> by Annie Hartnett<br \/>\n17. <em>Our Towns<\/em> by James and Deborah Fallows<br \/>\n<strong>18. <em>Dinners with Ruth<\/em> by Nina Totenberg<\/strong><br \/>\n19. <em>The Glass Hotel<\/em> by Emily St. John Mandel<br \/>\n20. <em>The Poorhouse Fair<\/em> by John Updike<br \/>\n21. <em>Man Swarm<\/em> by Dave Foreman<br \/>\n22. <em>The Covenant of Water<\/em> by Abraham Verghese<br \/>\n23. <em>Cutting for Stone<\/em> by Abraham Verghese<br \/>\n24. <em>A Burning<\/em> by Megha Majumdar<br \/>\n25. <em>In the Land of Invisible Women<\/em> by Qanta Ahmed<br \/>\n26. <em>Comfort Me with Apples<\/em> by Ruth Reichl<br \/>\n27. <em>Theft by Finding<\/em> by David Sedaris<br \/>\n28. <em>Oh William<\/em> by Elizabeth Strout<br \/>\n29. <em>Bel Canto<\/em> by Ann Patchett<br \/>\n30. <em>Solito<\/em> by Javier Zamora<br \/>\n31. <em>State of Wonder<\/em> by Ann Patchett<br \/>\n32. <em>Commonwealth<\/em> by Ann Patchett<br \/>\n33. <em>The Boys from Biloxi<\/em> by John Grisham<br \/>\n34. <em>The Wind Knows My Name<\/em> by Isabel Allende<br \/>\n35. <em>The Boy from the Woods<\/em> by Harlan Coben<br \/>\n36. <em>Stalin&#8217;s Ghost<\/em> by Martin Cruz Smith<br \/>\n37. <em>Dark Sacred Night<\/em> by Michael Connelly<br \/>\n38. <em>The Night Fire<\/em> by Michael Connelly<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/books.jpg 621w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/books-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of a lackluster year in books for me, but here it is. The highlight of the year may have been that I finished (and even enjoyed) my first audio book ever. 1. Blue Desert by Charles Bowden 2. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin 3. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 4. 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