Everybody else is doing their top lists so I thought I would list some of my favorite books of 2023, in the order that I read them.This is a quarter of the books I read, with many or most of the others being novels.
* Midwinter Day, Bernadette Mayer
* Silence: In the Age of Noise, Erling Kagge, translated from Norwegian by Becky L. Crook
* The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets, Michael Schmidt
* Also a Poet: Frank O'J=Hara My Father, and Me, Ada Calhoun
* Stephen Crane: A critical biography, John Berryman (I had read Paul Auster's bio the year before)
** Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, Rutyh Ben-Ghiat
* World Within World, Stephen Spender
* The Word Hoard: Daily Life in Old English, Hana Videen
* Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year, Eleanor Parker
* Fatherland: A Memoir of War, conscience, and family secrets, Burkhard Bilger
** Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life * Sudden Death, Laura Cumming
* How Dead Languages Work, Coulter H. George
** Trilogy, Jon Fosse
* Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, Charlotte Higgins
* I Remember Kim, Rona Cran