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    What is Liam reading 2023?

    This a list of books I have read this calendar year. Each one a masterpiece in it’s own right. I share them here to hopefully encourage others to give them a read as well.

    The Best Reads of 2023:

    All around Top 3:

    1. The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss.
    2. The Stand, Stephen King.
    3. Dune, Frank Herbert.

    Best Fiction by Genre:

    • Best Horror:
      • The Shining, Stephen King.
    • Best Sci-fi:
      • Dune, Frank Herbert.
    • Best Fantasy:
      • The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss.
    • Best Laughs:
      • Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
    • Best Literary:
      • Moby Dick, Herman Melville.
    • Best Short Stories:
      • Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu.
    • Best Made Me Think:
      • Blindness, Jose Saramago.

    Best Nonfiction by Genre:

    • Best Memoir:
      • “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Richard P. Feynman
    • Best Sociology/Psychology:
      • The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene.
    • Best History/Philosophy:
      • Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings, Neil Price.
    • Best Made Me Think:
      • The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali, Satchidananda.

    All Reads of 2023.

    Fantastic & Fascinating:

    Dr Sleep
    • The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
    • The Gunslinger, Stephen King
    • The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
    • The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King
    • The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
    • Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
    • Dr. Sleep, Stephen King
    • Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu
    • The Postmortal, Drew Magary
    • Dune, Frank Herbert
    • The Fireman, Joe Hill
    • Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
    • Neuromancer, William Gibson

    Masterful & Macabre:

    • N0S4A2, Joe Hill
    • Little Heaven, Nick Cutter
    • Firestarter, Stephen King
    • The Shining, Stephen King
    • Under the Dome, Stephen King
    • Blindness, Jose Saramago
    • The Long Walk, Stephen King
    • ‘Salem’s Lot, Stephen King
    • Carrie, Stephen King
    • IT, Stephen King
    • Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez
    • The Watchers, A.M. Shine
    • The Deep, Nick Cutter
    • Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons

    Tremendous & Transcendent:

    • Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
    • Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination, Adi Shankaracharya
    • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
    • The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali, Satchidananda
    • “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Richard P. Feynman
    • Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman
    • On Writing, Stephen King
    • 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    • The Stand, Stephen King
    • Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings, Neil Price
    • The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene
    • Moby Dick, Herman Melville
    • Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    To see last years favorites, click here