2023 Books List

I've posted this kind of thing on my LiveJournal for many years now (in fact, it was the last thing I really used my LJ account for), but may as well do it here now.

I also do an annual movie list and have previously put it in the same post, but that is so pathetically short for 2023 that I'm not sure if I'll bother posting it, or just combine it into the 2024 list.  Anyway, here's the book list for now:
 

• The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt - Andrea Wulf & Lillian Melcher
• All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger - Lloyd Kaufman & James Gunn
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage
• Batman: Noël - Lee Bermejo
• Becoming Andy Warhol - Nick Bertozzi & Pierce Hargan
• Before Shadowgate - F.X. Nine & Ellen Miles
• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Unknown (trans. Seamus Heaney)+
• Blacksad (Blacksad #1-3) - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido (trans. Anthya Flores)
• Blacksad: Amarillo (Blacksad #5) - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido (trans. Neal Adams & Katie LaBarbera)
• Blacksad: A Silent Hell (Blacksad #4) - Juan Díaz Canales& Juanjo Guarnido (trans. Katie LaBarbera)
• Blacksad: They All Fall Down - Part One (Blacksad #6) - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido (trans. Diana Schutz & Brandon Kandor)
• Blizzard!: The Great Storm of '88 - Judd Caplovich
• Bluesman - Rob Vollmar & Pablo G. Callejo
• Capt. Stan's Hudson River Book - Capt. Stanley Wilcox & H.W. Van Loan
• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger*
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens*
• The City of Gold and Lead (The Tripods #2) - John Christopher*
• Collecting Things - Paul Villiard
• The Crimson Cage - John Lees, Alex McCormack & Ashley McCormack
• Do a Powerbomb! - Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
• Elevator Pitch - Linwood Barclay
• Gamemaster Classified: An Insider's Guide to Nintendo's Coming of Age - Howard Phillips & Matthew Taranto
• Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers and My Uncle Arthur, New York's Greatest Hoarders - Franz Lidz
• Glacial Period - Nicolas de Crécy (trans. Joe Johnson)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton
• How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety - Zachary Auburn
• I Found Puppets Living In My Apartment Walls - Ben Farthing
• The King of the Golden River, or the Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria - John Ruskin
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
• Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl (trans. F. H. Lyon)
• Mind at Play: The Psychology of Video Games - Geoffrey R. Loftus & Elizabeth E. Loftus
• The Miracle of Trees - Olavi Huikari
• Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett
• A Movie Making Nerd - James Rolfe
• Nobody's Stooge: Ted Healy - Bill Cassara
• Not Just a Stooge - Joe Besser with Jeff Lenburg and Greg Lenburg
• The Pool of Fire (The Tripods #3) - John Christopher*
• Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors - Daniel Cohen*
• River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West - Rebecca Solnit
• The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures - Dave Stevens
• The Second Mrs. Gioconda - E.L. Konigsburg
• A Selective History of 'Bad' Video Games: Unfulfilled Potential, Interesting Mistakes and Downright Clunkers - Michael Greenhut
• A Short History of the Sailing Ship - Romola Anderson & R.C. Anderson
• The Sleeping Father - Matthew Sharpe
• Stone Circles - Hugh Newman
• Stonehenge - Bernard Cornwell
• Teacup Tales: Folklore of the Hudson Valley - Pauline Hommell
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures Vol. 1 - Erik Burnham & Tim Lattie
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird & Tom Waltz
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1 - Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 2 - Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird & Dave Sim
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 3 - Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Eric Talbot & Jim Lawson
• Uhtred's Feast: Inside the World of the Last Kingdom (Saxon Stories #13.5) - Bernard Cornwell with Suzanne Pollak
• The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation - Jonathan Hennessey & Aaron McConnell
• Vernon Dent: Stooge Heavy - Bill Cassara
• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts - Samuel Beckett
• When the Tripods Came (The Tripods #0.5) - John Christopher
• The White Mountains (The Tripods #1) - John Christopher*
• You Feel It Just Below the Ribs - Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson

*Re-read

+Re-read in different translation

Total books: 60

2023 Movies List

I think this is my shortest annual movies list since I started keeping them - without a few random documentaries and that Chuck E. Cheese thing, it would've been even shorter. In this turbulent year I focused more on books (and games). I even considered not bothering to post the list and just doing a combined 2023/2024 one next year, but whatever, here it is.

• Call Me Miss Cleo [Celia Aniskovich & Jennifer Brea, 2022]
• A Christmas Story [Bob Clark, 1983]*
• Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 [David Orr, 1999]
• Dead Man [Jim Jarmusch, 1995]*
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves [Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley, 2023]
• Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story [Kimo Easterwood & Ron Cicero, 2020]
• Hugo [Martin Scorsese, 2011]*
• John Wick: Chapter 2 [Chad Stahelski, 2017]
• Nope [Jordan Peele, 2022]
• The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story [Adam Sweeney & Scott Barber, 2018]
• Reality Bites [Ben Stiller, 1994]
• Renfield [Chris McKay, 2023]
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie [Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic, 2023]
• Tár [Todd Field, 2022]

*Re-watch Total movies: 13