2023
Listed chronologically by first to last read in the calendar year.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wicked and the Wallflower (The Bareknuckle Bastards #1) by Sarah MacLean
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
Brazen and the Beast (The Bareknuckle Bastards #2) by Sarah MacLean
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained by Robert L. Wolke
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Lady’s Guide to Death and Deception by Katherine Cowley
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird by Jack Emerson Davis
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830 by Ian Mortimer
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by 백세희 (Baek Se-hee)
Beyond the Bright Lights* by Settle Myer
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
I Like You Like That by Kayla Grosse
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale Greenwalt
A Natural History of Wine by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger by Ken Perenyi
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt
Wild Scottish Knight by Tricia O'Malley
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians #1) by Kevin Kwan
To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones by Greg Campbell
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story by Alexandra Wolfe
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A.I. to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Not the Witch You Wed by April Asher
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin
Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America* by Katherine Turk
Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America by Russell D. Moore
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma* by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
* indicates DNF (mostly due to running out of time on my loan, if it was a DNF due to disliking the content of the book, I didn’t record it on this list at all)