2023 was an active year in reading with a total of 40 books reads. This number doesn’t cover everything that I read. I also spent some time reading short stories in Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld as well as several other online magazines as I studied markets to submit my own fiction to.

The reading year began with Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and wrapped up with Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Here is the reading list:

1. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
2. Bios by Robert Charles Wilson
3. The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
4. Grendel by John Gardner
5. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders
8. The Consultant by Bentley Little
9. No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
10. The Prestige by Christopher Priest
11. Straight Man by Richard Russo
12. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
13. Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
14. Welcome to Hell: A Working Guide for the Beginning Writer by Tom Piccirilli
15. King Lear by William Shakespeare
16. Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories by H.P Lovecraft
17. The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark
18. Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight
19. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
20. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
21. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
22. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
23. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
24. Playing the Short Game: How to Market and Sell Short Fiction by Douglas Smith
25. How Writers Fail by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
26. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
27. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
28. Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman
29. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
30. Teaching College Composition by William Murdick
31. True Grit by Charles Portis
32. Kindred by Octavia Butler
33. How to Make a Living as a Writer by James Scott Bell
34. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
35. Electric Forest by Tanith Lee
36. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
37. Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
38. Mastering Logical Fallacies by Michael Withey
39. Mental Immunity by Andy Norman
40. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera