2023 Lists

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Books Read
December
67. The Tailor King, Anthony Arthur
66. Five Leaf Clover, Mark Hayden
65. Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein
64. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
63. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
November
62. Six Furlongs, Mark Hayden
61. The Hong Kong I Knew, Mark Isaac-Williams
60. Paradise Lost, Milton
59. The Fabulous Riverboat, Philip Jose Farmer
October
58. The Medieval Village Economy, Robert Townsend
57. Shadows of Sanctuary, Rober Asprin, Ed.
56. Seventh Star, Mark Hayden
September
55. The Three Theban Plays, Sophocles
54. Tales from The Vulgar Unicorn, Robert Asprin, Ed.
53. Eight Kings, Mark Hayden
52. The Nine of Wands, Mark Hayden
51. Another Fine Myth, Robert Asprin
August
50. The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, Tim Harford
49. Tenfold, Mark Hayden
48. An Introduction to Mechanics, Kleppner and Kolenkow
47. The 11th Hour, Mark Hayden
46. The Measure of Reality, Alfred W. Crosby
45. The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
44. Evolution of the Thermometer 1572-1743, HC Bolton
July
43. The Book of Silence, Lawrence Watt-Evans
42. The Medieval Machine, Jean Gimpel
41. How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley
40. Myth Directions, Robert Asperin
39. Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod
38. The Tacit Dimension, Michael Polanyi
37. The Sword of Bheleu, Lawrence Watt-Evans
36. The Faerie Queene, Spenser
35. No Free Lunch, Caleb Fuller
34. The 12 Dragons of Albion, Mark Hayden
33. Seven Altars of Dusarra, Lawrence Watt-Evans
June
32. Cactus Tracks & Cowboy Philosophy, Baxter Black
31. Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability, Aguirre, Merali, and Sloan, eds.
30. The Face of Chaos, Robert Asprin, ed.
29. In Search of Monsters to Destroy, C.J. Coyne
27. The Sicilian Mafia, Gabetta
28. The Lure of the Basilisk, Lawrence Watt-Evans
26. The 13th Witch, Mark Hayden
25. Beowulf
May
24. Liberalism, von Mises
23. She, H. Rider Haggard
22. Thebaid, Statius
21. A Fine and Pleasant Misery, Patrick McManus
APR
20. Madwand, Roger Zelazny
19. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Jan Potocki
18. Real Ponies Don't Go Oink! Patrick McManus
MAR
17. Faustus, Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
16. The Misenchanted Sword, Lawrence Watt-Evans
15. Metamorphoses, Ovid
FEB
14. Rhialto the Marvelous, Jack Vance
13. Changeling, Roger Zelazny
12. Inadequate Equilibria, Elizer Yudkowsky
11. Shalako, Louis L'Amour
JAN
10. The Telegony, D.H. Smith
9. The Changing Land, Roger Zelazny
8. The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed, Malcolm Davies
7. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre, Morrison and Baldick, Eds.
6. Dilvish, The Damned, Roger Zelazny
5. Wandering Towards a Goal, Agurre, et al., Eds.
4. The Ulysses Theme, W.B. Stanford
3. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories, Akutagawa Ryuosuke
2. Will We Ever Have a Quantum Computer? Mikhail Dyakonov
1. Rules of Civility, Amor Towles


Shakespeare's Plays

Comedies		Histories		Tragedies
The Tempest MAR The Two Gentlemen of Verona APR The Merry Wives of Windsor APR Measure for Measure APR The Comedy of Errors MAY Much Ado About Nothing MAY Love's Labour's Lost MAY A Midsummer Night's Dream APR The Merchant of Venice MAR As You Like It MAR The Taming of the Shrew APR All's Well That Ends Well MAR Twelfth Night MAR The Winter's Tale MAR Pericles, Prince of TyreAPR ☠ The Two Noble Kinsmen MAY ☠		King John FEB Richard II FEB Henry IV, Part 1 MAR Henry IV, Part 2 MAR Henry V MAR Henry VI, Part 1 MAR Henry VI, Part 2 MAR Henry VI, Part 3 MAR Richard III★ FEB Henry VIII MAR Edward III ☠ FEB		Troilus and Cressida JAN Coriolanus JAN Titus Andronicus JAN Romeo and Juliet MAY Timon of Athens JAN Julius Caesar JAN Macbeth★ JAN Hamlet FEB King Lear FEB Othello★ FEB Antony and Cleopatra FEB Cymbeline FEB

★ Actually good, so probably not really written by Shakespeare.
☠ Authorship promoted to Shakespeare because literary theorists ran out of things to say.