My favorite books of 2023

Let's talk books!

It’s been a fun first year for Let’s Talk Books.

I thought it would be cool if I reached 100 subscribers in the first year, and, as of December, I have 108 subscribers! Thank you for reading. And thank you for the encouragement along the way.

For fun, I’ve ranked the books I’ve read this year.

Enjoy.

Philosophy

1. Revolt of the Masses (Post)

2. Letters on Ethics (Post)

3. Tao Te Ching (Post)

4. The Sovereignty of Good (Post)

5. The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics (Post)

6. Seven Types of Atheism (Post)

7. Poetics (Post)

8. Timaeus (Post)

9. Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (Post)

10. Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher (Post)

11. The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (Post)

History

1. Losing Earth: A Recent History (Post)

2. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World (Post)

3. Christmas: A Candid History (Post)

4. Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them (Post)

5. Great Kingdoms of Africa (Post)

6. Famine: A Short History (Post)

7. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Post)

8. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (Post)

9. The Reagan Diaries (Post)

10. Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America (Post)

Literature

1. Ramayana (Post)

2. Lonesome Dove (Post)

3. Post Captain (Post)

4. The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (Post)

5. Creation: A Novel (Post)

6. Metamorphoses (Post)

7. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (Post)

8. Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Post)

9. Night Watch (Post)

10. A Prayer Journal (Post)

11. Kokoro (Post)

12. The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 BC (Post)

13. The Winter’s Tale (Post)