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2023
My Year in Books
15,161
pages read
Timothy Frasca
49
books read
Timothy Frasca
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Shortest Book
128
pages
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Longest Book
880
pages
Average book length in 2023
309
pages
The Odyssey by Homer
Most Shelved
2,135,190
people also shelved
Midsummer Night by Uwe Timm
Least Shelved
509
people also shelved
Timothy’s average rating for 2023
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.44 average
The Possessed by Elif Batuman

Timothy’s first review of the year

Lively prose, absurd plot, but you knew that from the title.
TIMOTHY’S 2023 BOOKS
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
Slowness by Milan Kundera
Liberty Bar by Georges Simenon
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Dopesick by Beth Macy
The Mahé Circle by Georges Simenon
The Book of Blam by Aleksandar Tišma
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tišma
The Odyssey by Homer
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Kapo by Aleksandar Tišma
Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
it was amazing
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
The Dead Girls' Class Trip by Anna Seghers
Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Midsummer Night by Uwe Timm
The Saint-Fiacre Affair by Georges Simenon
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Kremlin Ball by Curzio Malaparte
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
The King Is Always Above the People by Daniel Alarcón
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and... by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
The New Abnormal by Aaron Kheriaty
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
The Kukotsky Enigma by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
The Oppermans by Lion Feuchtwanger
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Underground by Hamid Ismailov
Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Timothy’s last review of the year

How he hated the British aristos. Probably deserved.
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