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    Top Books First Read in 2023

    For another year of keeping track.
    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    1. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
    2. Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
    3. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
    4. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John le Carré)
    5. The Island of Dr. Moreau (H.G. Wells)
    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    Novels:
    • Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Joseph Conrad, 1904)
    • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Mishima Yukio, trans. Ivan Morris, 1956)
    • Zero K (Don DeLillo, 2016)


    Non-fiction:
    • Naïve and Sentimental Poetry, and On the Sublime: Two Essays (Friedrich von Schiller, trans. Julias A. Elias, 1795-1801)
    • German for Reading (Karl C. Sandberg/John R. Wendel, 1973)*
    • Classical Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars (ed. Jane Gaines, 1992)


    *Started August 2022.
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

    The last book I read was...
    The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain


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