2023 in the Books

A bunch of things I read in 2023.

The Alignment Problem cover

The Alignment Problem

by Brian Christian

American Midnight cover

American Midnight

by Adam Hochschild

Atomic Habits cover

Atomic Habits

by James Clear

Batman cover

Batman

by Alan Moore

Blood Merdian cover

Blood Merdian

by Cormac McCarthy

Blood, Sweat and Chrome : The Wild and True Story of Mad Max cover

Blood, Sweat and Chrome : The Wild and True Story of Mad Max

by Kyle Buchanan

A Brief History of Timekeeping cover

A Brief History of Timekeeping

by Chad Orzel

Broad band cover

Broad band

by Claire Lisa Evans

Caste cover

Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson

Code cover

Code

by Charles Petzold

The Dark Fields cover

The Dark Fields

by Alan Glynn

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger cover

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

by King, Stephen

Electron in Action cover

Electron in Action

by Steve Kinney

Empire of Pain cover

Empire of Pain

by Patrick Radden Keefe

Four Thousand Weeks cover

Four Thousand Weeks

by Oliver Burkeman

The Fourth Man cover

The Fourth Man

by Jeff McComsey

Full Throttle cover

Full Throttle

by Joe Hill

Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense cover

Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Heat 2 cover

Heat 2

by Michael Mann

Killshot cover

Killshot

by Elmore Leonard

Last Action Heroes cover

Last Action Heroes

by Nick de Semlyen

Longitude cover

Longitude

by Dava Sobel

Moneyball cover

Moneyball

by Michael Lewis

Monsters cover

Monsters

by Claire Dederer

Music: A Subversive History cover

Music: A Subversive History

by Ted Gioia

Mystic river cover

Mystic river

by Dennis Lehane

The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 cover

The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

by James Tynion IV

The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 cover

The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2

by James Tynion IV

Perfection of the Paper Clip cover

Perfection of the Paper Clip

by James Ward

Plunge cover

Plunge

by Joe Hill

Poverty, by America cover

Poverty, by America

by Matthew Desmond

Quantum Bullshit cover

Quantum Bullshit

by Chris Ferrie

Receptor: A Novel cover

Receptor: A Novel

by Alan Glynn

Recessional cover

Recessional

by David Mamet

Rum Punch cover

Rum Punch

by Elmore Leonard

A Shortcut Through Time cover

A Shortcut Through Time

by George Johnson

Soonish cover

Soonish

by Kelly & Zach Weinersmith

Steve Jobs cover

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

Upgrade cover

Upgrade

by Blake Crouch

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? cover

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?

by Stephen Wolfram

What You Do Is Who You Are cover

What You Do Is Who You Are

by Ben Horowitz

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell cover

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

by Nathan Ballingrud

Writing the Revolution cover

Writing the Revolution

by Heather Ford

Wager cover

Wager

by David Grann

You Are Not Expected to Understand This cover

You Are Not Expected to Understand This

by Torie Bosch

Zero cover

Zero

by Charles Seife