Reading List 2023

I've divided my 2023 reading list into groups of fourteen, in three different categories, and if many of the choices sound like they came from a grade-school assignment sheet, that's because I started reading many of these books back in grade school, but never finished them--until perhaps, I will in the upcoming year. I doubt that I'll read all forty-two books listed below by the last weeks of 2023, but I'm going to try to get through at least thirty-six, an average of three per month. 

Fourteen non-fiction books:

1.  Expand Social Security Now! How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve by Steven Hill

2.  Remembering Buddy by John Goldrosen

3.  Lobotomy:  Surviving the Ramones by Dee Dee Ramone

4.  Coming of Age in California:  Personal Essays by Gerald Haslam

5.  101 Social Media Tactics for Non-Profits:  A Field Guide by Melanie Mathos

6.  Like Me:  Confessions of a Country Singer by Chely Wright

7.  Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned at a Combat Hospital by Heidi Kraft

8.  Surviving Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia by S. Ann Dunham

9.  Style Statement:  Live by Your Own Design by Carrie McCarthy

10.  The Mayor of Castro Street:  The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts 

11.  Editors on Writing:  What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do by Gerald Gross

12.  One-hundred-seventy-five High-impact Cover Letters by Richard Beatty

13.  When Action Follows Heart:  365 Ways to Share Kindness by Susan Spencer

14.  Wait, How Do I Write This E-mail? Game-changing Templates for Networking and the Job Search by Danny Rubin

Fourteen novels (several of these are books I started reading in grade school and never finished):

1.  Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

2.  All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque

3.  Kim by Rudyard Kipling

4.  Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

5.  No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman

6.  Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

7.  Heidi by Johanna Spyri 

8.  I Wish There Was Something I Could Quit by Aaron Cometbus

9.  Country by Danielle Steele

10.  One Last Hit by Nathan Walpow

11.  Magnificent Vibration by Rick Springfield

12.  Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

13. The Prince of Orange County by Kareem Tayyar

14.  Fair Blows the Wind by Louis L'Amour

Fourteen Miscellaneous:

1.  Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

2.  The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair

3.  The Women's Room by Marilyn French

4.  Night Head Genesis 3 (or other manga)

5.  Best American Poetry 2015 ed. by Sherman Alexie

6.  Red Eye, Black Eye by Thor Jensen

7.  Me by Elton John

8. I, Jesse James by J. R. Ross

9.  Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession by Studs Terkel

10.  Sachel by Larry Tye

11.  Don't Forget Us Here:  Lost and Found at Guantanamo by Mansoor Adayfi

12.  The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

13.  The Long Hard Road out of Hell by Marilyn Manson

14.  Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver