@Geryon's Goal: 14 books by 2023-12-31

Position	Details	Rating
#1	Let the Record Show Sarah Schulman	4.5
#2	Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.15
#3	Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York Jeremiah Moss	0
#4	Free Love Tessa Hadley	0
#5	The Novelist Jordan Castro	2
#6	Body Work Melissa Febos	3.83
#7	El Nervio Optico El Nervio Optico María Gainza	0
#8	Winter Ali Smith	4.07
#9	Five Tuesdays in Winter Lily King	4.04
#10	Out There Kate Folk	4.08
#11	Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri	3.48
#12	Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.84
#13	Spring A Novel Ali Smith	4
#14	Assembly Natasha Brown	4.03
#15	Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire Kay Redfield Jamison	0
#16	Almond Won-Pyung Sohn	3.99
#17	Bliss Montage Ling Ma	3.82
#18	The Hero of This Book Elizabeth McCracken	3.42
#19	The Man Who Saw Everything Deborah Levy	4.13
#20	Dr. No Percival Everett	4.3
#21	Severance Ling Ma	3.86
#22	How to Read Now: Essays Elaine Castillo	4.4
#23	Happy Hour Marlowe Granados	3
#24	Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Kieran Setiya	3.33
#25	The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai	4.55
#26	Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor	3.95
#27	Letters to Gwen John Celia Paul	5
#28	Bunny Mona Awad	3.58
#29	Picasso's War Hugh Eakin	4.67
#30	The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	4
#31	Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu	4
#32	The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty	3.56
#33	Little Rabbit Alyssa Songsiridej	4.67
#34	Lessons Ian McEwan	4.67
#35	Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi	3.74
#36	Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Rachel Aviv	3.81
#37	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin	4.15
#38	Girlhood Melissa Febos	4.27
#39	Esta bruma insensata Esta bruma insensata Enrique Vila-Matas	0
#40	Memorial Bryan Washington	3.35
#41	Touch Touch Olaf Olafsson	0
#42	You Exist Too Much Zaina Arafat	3.94
#43	What Happened To You?	4.47
#44	Briefly, A Delicious Life Nell Stevens	3.43
#45	Mona Pola Oloixarac Adam Morris (Translator)	3.13
#46	We Do What We Do in the Dark Michelle Hart	4.07
#47	Yoga Emmanuel Carrère	3.67
#48	Find Your Artistic Voice Lisa Congdon	4
#49	What Is the Grass What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life Mark Doty	0
#50	The Terrible Yrsa Daley-Ward	4
#51	All the Lovers in the Night Mieko Kawakami Sam Bett (Translator) David Boyd (Translator)	3.58
#52	Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 Peter Schjeldahl	0
#53	Ghosts Dolly Alderton	3.72
#54	Summer Ali Smith	4.57
#55	Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems Carl Phillips	0
#56	A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride	3.43
#57	No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Donald Keene (Translator)	3.87
#58	The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.08
#59	Any Human Heart William Boyd	3.73
#60	In the Margins In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	0
#61	The Colony Audrey Magee	4.1
#62	Alone With You in the Ether Olivie Blake	3.87
#63	People of the Book Geraldine Brooks	4.03
#64	Temporada de huracanes Fernanda Melchor	4.5
#65	The Defining Decade The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now Meg Jay	3.67
#66	How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays Alexander Chee	4.31
#67	How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water Angie Cruz	4.24
#68	Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing	4.33
#69	Freedom Jonathan Franzen	3.65
#70	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	4.33
#71	Fierce Poise Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York Alexander Nemerov	0
#72	Salt Slow Julia Armfield	3.89
#73	Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Julie Smith	3.73
#74	The Little Friend Donna Tartt	3.27
#75	Art Is Life Jerry Saltz	0
#76	The Unsinkable Greta James Jennifer E. Smith	3.58
#77	The Abundance Annie Dillard	3
#78	Just Kids Patti Smith	4.25
#79	The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk	4.31
#80	To the Wedding John Berger	4
#81	There but for the Ali Smith	0
#82	Snowflake Louise Nealon	3.75
#83	Dog years Mark Doty	3.5
#84	Raving McKenzie Wark	3

Position	Details	Rating
#1	Let the Record Show Sarah Schulman	4.5
#2	Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.15
#3	Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York Jeremiah Moss	0
#4	Free Love Tessa Hadley	0
#5	The Novelist Jordan Castro	2
#6	Body Work Melissa Febos	3.83
#7	El Nervio Optico El Nervio Optico María Gainza	0
#8	Winter Ali Smith	4.07
#9	Five Tuesdays in Winter Lily King	4.04
#10	Out There Kate Folk	4.08
#11	Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri	3.48
#12	Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.84
#13	Spring A Novel Ali Smith	4
#14	Assembly Natasha Brown	4.03
#15	Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire Kay Redfield Jamison	0
#16	Almond Won-Pyung Sohn	3.99
#17	Bliss Montage Ling Ma	3.82
#18	The Hero of This Book Elizabeth McCracken	3.42
#19	The Man Who Saw Everything Deborah Levy	4.13
#20	Dr. No Percival Everett	4.3
#21	Severance Ling Ma	3.86
#22	How to Read Now: Essays Elaine Castillo	4.4
#23	Happy Hour Marlowe Granados	3
#24	Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Kieran Setiya	3.33
#25	The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai	4.55
#26	Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor	3.95
#27	Letters to Gwen John Celia Paul	5
#28	Bunny Mona Awad	3.58
#29	Picasso's War Hugh Eakin	4.67
#30	The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	4
#31	Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu	4
#32	The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty	3.56
#33	Little Rabbit Alyssa Songsiridej	4.67
#34	Lessons Ian McEwan	4.67
#35	Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi	3.74
#36	Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Rachel Aviv	3.81
#37	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin	4.15
#38	Girlhood Melissa Febos	4.27
#39	Esta bruma insensata Esta bruma insensata Enrique Vila-Matas	0
#40	Memorial Bryan Washington	3.35
#41	Touch Touch Olaf Olafsson	0
#42	You Exist Too Much Zaina Arafat	3.94
#43	What Happened To You?	4.47
#44	Briefly, A Delicious Life Nell Stevens	3.43
#45	Mona Pola Oloixarac Adam Morris (Translator)	3.13
#46	We Do What We Do in the Dark Michelle Hart	4.07
#47	Yoga Emmanuel Carrère	3.67
#48	Find Your Artistic Voice Lisa Congdon	4
#49	What Is the Grass What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life Mark Doty	0
#50	The Terrible Yrsa Daley-Ward	4
#51	All the Lovers in the Night Mieko Kawakami Sam Bett (Translator) David Boyd (Translator)	3.58
#52	Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 Peter Schjeldahl	0
#53	Ghosts Dolly Alderton	3.72
#54	Summer Ali Smith	4.57
#55	Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems Carl Phillips	0
#56	A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride	3.43
#57	No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Donald Keene (Translator)	3.87
#58	The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.08
#59	Any Human Heart William Boyd	3.73
#60	In the Margins In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	0
#61	The Colony Audrey Magee	4.1
#62	Alone With You in the Ether Olivie Blake	3.87
#63	People of the Book Geraldine Brooks	4.03
#64	Temporada de huracanes Fernanda Melchor	4.5
#65	The Defining Decade The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now Meg Jay	3.67
#66	How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays Alexander Chee	4.31
#67	How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water Angie Cruz	4.24
#68	Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing	4.33
#69	Freedom Jonathan Franzen	3.65
#70	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	4.33
#71	Fierce Poise Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York Alexander Nemerov	0
#72	Salt Slow Julia Armfield	3.89
#73	Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Julie Smith	3.73
#74	The Little Friend Donna Tartt	3.27
#75	Art Is Life Jerry Saltz	0
#76	The Unsinkable Greta James Jennifer E. Smith	3.58
#77	The Abundance Annie Dillard	3
#78	Just Kids Patti Smith	4.25
#79	The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk	4.31
#80	To the Wedding John Berger	4
#81	There but for the Ali Smith	0
#82	Snowflake Louise Nealon	3.75
#83	Dog years Mark Doty	3.5
#84	Raving McKenzie Wark	3

2023 Reading Goal

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