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**Sarena Ulibarri** @sarenaulibarri@wandering.shop · Jan 4, 2024

Jan 4, 2024

Sarena Ulibarri @sarenaulibarri@wandering.shop

#AwardsEligibility post, now with links to the books, and a teaser excerpt for each one! I published two novellas this year, two short stories, and one nonfiction essay.

#solarpunk #ScienceFiction #ScifiBooks #novellas #lunarpunk #SmallPress #2023Books

http://www.sarenaulibarri.com/blog/2023-awards-eligibility

Sarena Ulibarri2023 Awards EligibilityIt's that time of year when people within the Science Fiction and Fantasy community are considering which works to nominate or vote for in various important industry awards, such as the Hugo, Nebula,...

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**Nualaaa** @nuala@mastodon.art · Jan 3, 2024

Jan 3, 2024

Nualaaa @nuala@mastodon.art

2023 books

The list is as follows: Midnight Sun, Vibrant Matter, The Real North Korea, Confessions of a Ghostwriter, The Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Heiresses, Nuclear Folly, A Please And A Calling, Travllers in the Third Reich, It Walks By Night, The Eustace Diamonds, and The Monuments Men.

#books #bookstodon #2023books

**HollieK** @HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk · Jan 1, 2024

Jan 1, 2024

HollieK @HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk

2023 Books Read: December

Snuff - Terry Pratchett

Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett

The Shepherd's Crown - Terry Pratchett

Starter Villain - John Scalzi

Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

Currently Reading: OverLondon - George Penney & Tony Johnson

#2023Books #AmReading #HK72Posts

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**TBWeber** @tbweber@universeodon.com · Dec 31, 2023 *

Dec 31, 2023 *

TBWeber @tbweber@universeodon.com

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November: The Lady from the Black Lagoon (Mallory O'Meara), Fat Kid Rules the World (K. L. Going)

December: The Once and Future Witches (Alix E. Harrow), Even Though I Knew the End (C. L. Polk)

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#Books #Bookstodon #BestOf2023

**TBWeber** @tbweber@universeodon.com · Dec 31, 2023

Dec 31, 2023

TBWeber @tbweber@universeodon.com

I see several posts on best books they read in 2023:

January: Nevermoor (Jessica Townsend), Light from Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki)

February: A Mirror Mended (Alix E. Harrow)

March: Into the Riverlands (Nghi Vo), The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)

April: Dinosaurs Rediscovered (Michael J. Benton), The Scavenger Door (Suzanne Palmer)

May: The Thickety (J. A. White), Story Thieves (James Riley)

June: Ghost (Jason Reynolds)

July: The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead), Into the Windwracked Wilds (A. Deborah Baker), Lost in the Moment and Found (Seanan McGuire), Dracopedia Field Guide (William O'Connor), The Body (Stephen King), How It Unfolds (James S. A. Corey)

August: Pet Sematary (Stephen King)

September: Rise (Mira Grant), The Storyteller's Handbook (Elise Hurst)

October: To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Moniquill Blackgoose), The Mist (Stephen King)

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#Books #Bookstodon #BestOf2023

**Eliot Lash** @Eliot_L@social.coop · Dec 31, 2023

Dec 31, 2023

Eliot Lash @Eliot_L@social.coop

My favorite books read in 2023:
Babel (R.F. Kuang)
Trail of Lightning (Rebecca Roanhorse)
The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Brandon Sanderson)
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (Brandon Sanderson)
The Sunlit Man (Brandon Sanderson)

#2023Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

**Annette C. Boehm** @ferngirl@det.social · Dec 31, 2023

Dec 31, 2023

Annette C. Boehm @ferngirl@det.social

My favorite 10 books read in 2023:

Strange Beasts of China (Yan Ge)
Lagoon (Nnedi Okorafor)
Sea of Tranquility (Emily StJohn Mandel)
Poet Warrior (Joy Harjo) (memoir)
Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
Sweet Bean Paste (Durian Sukegawa)
Perfect (Rachel Joyce)
Tenth of December (George Saunders) (short stories)
White Horse (Yan Ge)
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (Nick Hornby) (nonfiction)

#bookstodon #2023books @bookstodon

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**hipporebecca** @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk · Dec 31, 2023

Dec 31, 2023

hipporebecca @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk

55. A great book to finish the year with. Easy to read even while covering a traumatic time. #Sarajevo #BlackButterflies #AmReading #2023books

Nominated for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (Brilliantly evokes a world slipping under the opaque waters of war. Dark yet starkly beautiful' AMINATTA FORNA, author of THE HIRED MAN Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city into ethnic enclaves; each morning, the residents - whether Muslim, Croat or Serb push the makeshift barriers aside. When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her family to safety in England while she remains. As the city falls under siege, Zora and her friends are forced to rebuild themselves, over and over. Theirs is a breathtaking story of disintegration, resilience and hope. "Lucidly and vividly written... Along with human kindness, there is a quiet emphasis on the power of art' SUNDAY TIMES 'Hauntingly evocative, rich, highly accomplished' SAM BYERS, author of PERFIDIOUS ALBION 'Deeply moving held my breath as read' RUTH GILLIGAN, author of THE BUTCHERS 'Atmospheric... A timely love letter to a war-torn Sarajevo' IRISH INDEPENDENT

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**hipporebecca** @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk · Dec 31, 2023

Dec 31, 2023

hipporebecca @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk

54. Excellent. An insightful look into the impact of late diagnosed autism but full of (dark) humour. #AmReading #Autism #FernBrady #2023books

A summary of my book: 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My terrible Catholic childhood. 3. My friendship with an elderly man who runs the corner shop and is definitely not trying to groom me. 4. Homelessness. 5. Stripping. 6. More stripping but with more nervous breakdowns. 7. I hate everyone at Edinburgh uni etc. 8. REDACTED as too spicy. 9. After everyone tells me I don't look autistic, I try to cure my autism and get addicted to Xanax. 10. REDACTED as too embarrassing.

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**hipporebecca** @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk · Dec 31, 2023

Dec 31, 2023

hipporebecca @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk

53. I do enjoy reading books by people who just happened to drink with Francis Bacon #2023books #AmReading #Memoir

MICHAEL PEPPIATT francis bacon in your blood A MEMoIR •The best art memoir published in years' Spectator BLOOMSBURI

A classic, not only of art writing, but of personal memoir' Sunday Telegraph Michael Peppiatt's legendary friendship with Francis Bacon began in Soho in 1963 and lasted until Bacon's death almost thirty years later. Fascinated by the artist's brilliance and charisma, Peppiatt followed him on his nightly rounds of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club, sharing Bacon's 'gilded gutter life' in London, Paris and Tangier, and meeting everybody around him from Sonia Orwell and Lucian Freud to Andy Warhol and the Kray twins. In this intimate, deliberately indiscreet account, Bacon is shown close-up, grand and petty, tender and treacherous by turn, and often quite unlike the myth that has since enveloped him. This is a living, speaking likeness of the greatest artist of our times. 'Remarkable It captures what it was like to be in the presence of this brilliant, camp, reckless, waspish, drunken, generous, shameless character' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday SA wonderfully vivid account' Sunday Times, Art Book of the Year 'This fine memoir is more insightful than gossipy, and as a subject Bacon is just about unbeatable' New York Times An intimate memoir of two intense and interlaced lives Full of gossip, binges, nausea, bruises, stained sheets, punchlines and death wishes' Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement

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**hipporebecca** @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk · Dec 29, 2023

Dec 29, 2023

hipporebecca @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk

52. I got this because I saw a clip on Twitter promising scurrilous gossip. There wasn’t. He just slept with lots of people. But he & his wife seem to have been happy and had a nice life for themselves. #HollywoodMemoir #DenholmElliott #2023books #AmReading

Book cover.

Denholm Elliott. Quest for Love

By Sarah Elliott

'He was a definer of the English character, neither rural nor urban, a miniaturist of grandeur, a star-stabbing princeling among players. This is a brave and honest book. He would approve.' John Osborne, Spectator ...this biography is critically honest and moving. Sheridan Morley, Sunday Times From The Sound Barrier and The Cruel Sea in the early 'fifties to Indiana Jones in the late 'eighties Denholm Elliott's career in films and on the stage brought him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor of the very first rank. But there was inner conflict in his life as he gradually came to recognise his bisexuality. He found an identity through a remarkably open relationship with his second wife Susan. This book is Susan Elliott's own story of his extraordinary career and of their unusual marriage and family life in London and Ibiza with their children, Jennifer and Mark, until his death, brought on by AIDS in October 1992.

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**Luke: grue fodder** @captainfez@aus.social · Dec 29, 2023 *

Dec 29, 2023 *

Luke: grue fodder @captainfez@aus.social

2023: book sixty-two. #bookstodon #books #jamesjoyce #ulysses #books2023 #2023books

A hand holding a copy of "The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses" by James Joyce, showing an illustrated cover with street scenes.

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**Luke: grue fodder** @captainfez@aus.social · Dec 29, 2023

Dec 29, 2023

Luke: grue fodder @captainfez@aus.social

2023: book sixty-one. #books #bookstodon #2023books #books2023 #terencekilleen #Ulyssesunbound #ulysses

A hand holding a book titled "ULYSSES UNBOUND: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses" by Terence Killeen, with a sleeping cat in the background.

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**Luke: grue fodder** @captainfez@aus.social · Dec 26, 2023

Dec 26, 2023

Luke: grue fodder @captainfez@aus.social

2023: book sixty. #jamessacorey #books #bookstodon #kindle #leviathanwakes #theexpanse #2023books #books2023

A kindle copy of James S. A. Corey’s LEVIATHAN WAKES.

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**hipporebecca** @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk · Dec 23, 2023

Dec 23, 2023

hipporebecca @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk

51. I really enjoyed this readable, coming of age tale. I would have personally liked to have more details about what was happening in Uganda during the times portrayed but I guess the point was that ordinary lives continue regardless of what is happening in the world. #Uganda #2023books #AmReading

A coming-of-age classic' Stylist

THE FIRST WOMAN by JENNIFER NANSUBUGA MAKUMBI

A page-turner and a mind-blower' Tayari Jones 'Jennifer Makumbi is a genius storyteller' Reni Eddo-Lodge

WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR BY A WRITER OF COLOUR, 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD & THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE, 2021 A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, BBC CULTURE, TIME, WASHINGTON POST, O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE AND IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 At once epic and deeply personal, the second novel from prize-winning author Jennifer Makumbi is an intoxicating mix of Ugandan folklore and modern feminism that will linger in the memory long after the final page. As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to gnaw at her - questions which the adults in her life will do anything to ignore. Where is the mother she has never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? Inquisitive, headstrong, and unwilling to take no for an answer, Kirabo sets out to find the truth for herself. Her search will take her away from the safety of her prosperous Ugandan family, plunging her into a very different world of magic, tradition, and the haunting legend of 'The First Woman'. 'A NOVEL BURSTING WITH RESILIENCE AND WARMTH' The Sunday Times

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**hipporebecca** @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk · Dec 23, 2023

Dec 23, 2023

hipporebecca @hipporebecca@mastodonapp.uk

50. Well, Kirk’s certainly not backwards in coming forwards! If you enjoy a no holds memoir where the lead sleeps with a many people as possible, slags off as many people as possible and seems to have met a staggering number of people who then went on to kill themselves, have I got the book for you! #KirkDouglas #HollywoodMemoir #2023books #Hollywood #AmReading