Just to see how much my plan changes over the next 12 months, here are my short and long lists for 2023, as of 1 January 2023. I'm writing this in advance, so I may need to go back in here and edit off any books that I've read over Christmas as I've added in my remaining 2022 shortlist here.
I am also vaguely working on a general "book challenge" for the last few years looking at reading "genre books" from around the world. About 10 years ago, I saw a challenge from someone who read a book from every nation, and thought that that would be a good way to read outside my personal perspective, however a lot of the books bored me - not because they were bad books, but because they weren't my style. So I wondered whether it would be even possible to do this myself BUT focussing on books from the genres I prefer - mostly speculative fiction (SF, Fantasy, PNR) and Historical romance. It's taking a while to discover and then find copies of books that fit, but I haven't set a deadline for completing this. Nevertheless, hopefully some items from that will be able to come into my reading this year.
To define the two types of lists for 2023:
Shortlist - books I definitely plan to read this year. These fall into the following categories:
- I just really want to read this - e.g. next in series, excitement, etc.
- I've started so I'll finish - books that are partly complete. I'm making a special effort in 2023 to clear up my backlog of partially read books.
- Already borrowed - books that I currently have out on loan. I want to only have new (to me) books on loan from the library after January, if at all possible.
- Reviews owed. I have a backlog here too, which needs dealing with.
- Awards backlog - I have some outstanding books from the 2020 and 2021 Hugos that I never got around to. I want to tidy this off too.
- Books I own already - mostly gifts
- Things I'd like to read, but don't own
- Next books in series - some of these are being bumped up to Shortlist if I've been wanting to read for a while but haven't got around to continuing the series.
Shortlist
| Title | Author | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| A Peace Divided (Peacekeeper, #2) | Tanya Huff | Library borrowed |
| A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye, #9) | Seanan McGuire | |
| Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe | John H. Anold | |
| Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1) | Andrzej Sapkowski | |
| False Value (Rivers of London #8) | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1) | Tomi Adeyemi | |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | |
| Cursor's Fury (The Codex Alera, #3) | Jim Butcher | |
| Elsewhens (Glass Thorns, #2) | Melanie Rawn | |
| Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora | Zen Cho | |
| From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #3.5) | Marie Brennan | |
| In Ashes Lie (Onyx Court, #2) | Marie Brennan | |
| Infinity Wars | Jonathan Strahan | |
| Lost Gods | Micah Yongo | |
| Loyalty in Death (In Death, #9) | J.D. Robb | |
| Lud-in-the-Mist | Hope Mirrlees | |
| Mindtouch (The Dreamhealers, #1) | M.C.A. Hogarth | |
| No Longer a Gentleman (The Lost Lords #4) | Mary Jo Putney | |
| Old Peter's Russian Tales | Arthur Ransome | |
| Redemption's Blade (After the War, #1) | Adrian Tchaikovsky | |
| Regent's Park: From Tudor Hunting Ground to the Present | Paul A. Rabbitts | |
| She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1) | Shelley Parker-Chan | |
| Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection | Marissa Meyer | |
| Strange Brew | P.N. Elrod | |
| The All Souls Complete Trilogy | Deborah Harkness | |
| The Book Eaters | Sunyi Dean | |
| The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe #1) | Mary Robinette Kowal | |
| The Dark Days Club (Lady Helen, #1) | Alison Goodman | |
| The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin | |
| The Gatekeeper's Staff: An Old Gods Story (TJ Young & The Orishas #1) | Antoine Bandele | |
| The Girl in The Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2) | Katherine Arden | |
| The House in the Cerulean Sea | T.J. Klune | |
| The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | N.K. Jemisin | |
| The Human Experience: Andzhaparidze, Contemporary American and Soviet Fiction and Poetry | Georgii Andzhaparidze | |
| The Hunt | Chloe Neill | |
| The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways | Wilbert Awdry | |
| The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2) | S.A. Chakraborty | |
| The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science | Seb Falk | |
| The Machine Breaker Convicts from the Proteus and the Eliza | Bruce W. Brown | |
| The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) | R.F. Kuang | |
| The Resurrectionist of Caligo | Wendy Trimboli | |
| The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History that created your World – Children's Edition | Peter Frankopan | |
| The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow | |
| The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1) | Django Wexler | |
| The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal #2) | Zen Cho | |
| The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1) | Ambrose Parry | |
| Thorn | Intisar Khanani | |
| Voyage of the Basilisk (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #3) | Marie Brennan | |
| Witches and Warriors collection (Kindle bundle) | Lindsay Buroker | |
| Witness in Death (In Death, #10) | J.D. Robb | |
| - | - | - |
| Uncanny Magazine 2023 issues | ||
| Apex Magazine 2023 issues | ||
| BBC History Magazine 2023 issues |
Longlist
| Title | Author | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| The Light Brigade | Kameron Hurley | |
| October Daye, #10-14 | Seanan McGuire | |
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