The science, history and fiction books that marked 2023 – 01/03/2024 – Darwin and God
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It’s become a little tradition here on the blog (I believe it’s the third year in a row that I’ve done this) to share my readings from the past year, and there’s no reason to interrupt a great tradition, right? At the end of the post, I present the complete list of books I read in 2023. But I’m going to change the pattern a little this time and present the best books of the year in the categories most dear to this blogger’s heart: science, history and fiction.
Let’s go first, then, to them, the best of the year! Most of them were the subject of my review here at Sheet, with the original texts linked below. A reminder: I’m highlighting recently released books. Classics are out of competition.
Category: Science
– “The Evil That Dwells Us”, by Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne: a dive into the minds and life stories of people who committed violent crimes, without sensationalism or scrotum and with literary quality.
– “Brave New World”, by Bernardo Esteves: the most complete picture of the controversies surrounding the human occupation of the Americas during the Ice Age.
Category: History
– “The Snow Society”, by Pablo Vierci: account of the famous plane crash in the Andes, electrifying, eerie, human, full of heart.
– “The Escape Artist”, by Jonathan Freedland: book about a young Jew who plans his escape from Auschwitz and produces a detailed report revealing the wheels of the Holocaust. Essential.
Category: Fiction
– Inexplicable Tree, by Carol Chiovatto: enchanting mix of Brazilian fantasy and science fiction with captivating characters, fast pace and climax capable of melting a heart of stone.
– Locklands: The Forgotten Abysses, by Robert Jackson Bennett: conclusion of a trilogy that mixes references to the Renaissance and Classical Antiquity with science fiction in a way I had never seen before and a beautiful emotional weight.
The complete list of books I read in 2023
1) Hunger for Knowledge, Richard Dawkins
2)The American West: History, Myth and Legacy, Patrick N. Allitt
3)History of China, Michael Wood
4)African Dominion, Michael Gomez
5)Latim em Pó, Caetano W. Galindo
6)Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett
7)Conquest of the Americas, Marshall C. Eakin
8) Shorefall, Robert Jackson Bennett
9)The Anglo-Saxon World, Michael C. Drout
10)Nazi Billionaires, David de Jong
11)Medieval Mysteries, Thomas F. Madden
12)Control, Adam Rutherford
13)Eugenics and Other Evils, GK Chesterton
14)Understanding Japan, Mark J. Ravina
15)Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
16)Common Sense, Thomas Paine
17)The Windeby Puzzle, Lois Lowry
18)Night, Elie Wiesel
19)Tales from Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
20)Memories of a Pantanal, Teté Martinho
21)The Middle East in the 20th Century, Eamonn Gearon
22)The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Lord Dunsany
23)The Snow Society, Pablo Vierci
24)The Patriarchs, Angela Saini
25)The Crime of the Good Nazi, Samir Machado de Machado
26)Armageddon, Bart D. Ehrman
27)Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (reread)
28)The Origin of Civilization, Scott MacEachern
29)The Evil That Dwells Us, Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne
30) Vodun Priestesses and Queens of the Rosary, Aldair Rodrigues and Moacir Maia (org.)
31)The Rise of the Dragon, George RR Martin
32)The Awakening of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow (reread)
33)The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin (reread)
34)Herodotus: The Father of History, Elizabeth Vandiver
35)The Archeology of Loss: Life, Love and the Art of Dying, Sarah Tarlow
36)Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
37)The Books of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
38)Assyria, Eckart Frahm
39)On Writing Well, William Zinsser
40)American Prometheus, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
41)The Escape Artist, Jonathan Freedland
42)The Battle of Maldon and the Return of Beorhtnoth, JRR Tolkien
43) Inexplicable Tree, Carol Chiovatto
44) Persians, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
45)The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien (reread)
46)Different, Frans de Waal
47) Camouflaged Power, Fabio Victor
48)Journey to Heaven, Monteiro Lobato (reread)
49)Foolproof, Sander van der Linden
50)The Book of Hope, Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
51)The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
52)The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
53)Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe
54)Three Years in Hell, Fintan O’Toole
55)Twenty-First Century Tolkien, Nick Groom
56)Walking With Ghosts, Gabriel Byrne
57)Micromegas, Voltaire
58)Pandora’s Jar, Natalie Haynes (reread)
59)Galatea, Madeline Miller
60)We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
61)Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300, Peter Heather
62)The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon, Bart D. Ehrman
63)The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy
64)Brazilian Fascism, Pedro Doria
65)Ricardo and Vânia, Chico Felitti
66)ETs Don’t Drink Piña Colada, Diego Vitório
67)Outlive, Peter Attia
68)Amazonia at the Crossroads, Míriam Leitão
69) Tamed, Alice Roberts
70)The Iliad, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
71)Prejudice: A Story, Leandro Karnal and Luiz Estevam
72)Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors, Adrian Goldsworthy
73)Divine Might, Natalie Haynes
74)Brave New World, Bernardo Esteves
75)The Wolf-Girl, The Greeks and The Gods, Tom Holland
76)Slugfest, Reed Tucker
77)The Return of the Shadow, JRR Tolkien (reread)
78)Everything’s Okay vol. 1, Mike Birchall
79)Flatland, Edwin Abbott
80)Pax, Tom Holland
81)But Witch, Carol Chiovatto
82)Emperor of Rome, Mary Beard
83)Artifícios, Jorge Luis Borges
84)The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
85)Macunaíma, Mário de Andrade
86)El Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges
87)The Yellow Book of the Terminal, Vanessa Barbara
88) El Informe de Brodie, Jorge Luis Borges
89)El Libro de Arena, Jorge Luis Borges
90)La Memoria de Shakespeare, Jorge Luis Borges
91)An Uncomfortable Truth, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
92)The History of the English Language, Seth Lerer
93)Locklands, Robert Jackson Benett
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