This is a ranked list of the books I finished reading in 2023.

1. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
2. Tune In – Mark Lewisohn
3. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones – Stanley Booth
4. The Idiot – Elif Batuman
5. Before the Storm – Rick Perlstein
6. A Snake Lies Waiting – Louis Cha
7. The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
8. Nightfly – Peter Jones
9. Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock – Jesse Jarnow
10. Charles Dickens: An Introduction – Jenny Hartley
11. A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan – Richard Balls
12. Appointment with Death – Agatha Christie
13. The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions – Mark Lewisohn
14. Fight, Magic, Items – Aidan Moher

And this is a ranked list of the books I read but did not finish in 2023.

1. Against the Day – Thomas Pynchon
2. The Path to Power – Robert Caro
3. Suttree – Cormac McCarthy
4. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
5. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
6. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
7. Orientalism – Edward Said
8. American Prometheus – Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin
9. Quantum Criminals – Alex Pappademas & Joan Lemay
10. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
11. Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
12. Ozu – Donald Richie
13. Typee – Herman Melville
14. The Classical Style – Charles Rosen
15. A Heart Divided – Louis Cha
16. A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion – Steven Weisenberger
17. Arabian Nights: A Companion – Robert Irwin
18. God Only Knows – David Leaf
19. Killing Floor – Lee Child
20. Dickens – Peter Ackroyd