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2023
My Year in Books
12,679
pages read
36
books read


Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow by Christopher Collier
Shortest Book
93
pages
G-Man by Beverly Gage
Longest Book
837
pages

Average book length in 2023
352
pages

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Most Shelved
227,532
people also shelved
The Mexican American Experience in Texas by Martha Menchaca
Least Shelved
16
people also shelved

Porter’s average rating for 2023
3.8
3.8

King by Jonathan Eig
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.65 average

The Last Campaign by H.W. Brands

Porter’s first review of the year

liked it
I usually like Brands, but this one didn't hit the spot. ...more

±Ê°¿¸é°Õ·¡¸é’S 2023 BOOKS
The Last Campaign by H.W. Brands
The Pirate's Wife by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
Hanged! Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln by Sarah  Miller
really liked it
The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
By Hands Now Known by Margaret A. Burnham
A Godly Hero by Michael Kazin
Treason on Trial by Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez
Black Thursday by Martin Caidin
Until Justice Be Done by Kate Masur
it was amazing
American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
The Injustice Never Leaves You by Monica Muñoz Martinez
American Sirens by Kevin Hazzard
The Bill of the Century by Clay Risen
Machine Made by Terry Golway
Fool Me Once by Kelly Richmond Pope
The Mosquito Bowl by Buzz Bissinger
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy by Elizabeth R. Varon
G-Man by Beverly Gage
The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells
The Mexican American Experience in Texas by Martha Menchaca
The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
it was amazing
Race in the Crucible of War by Gerald F. Goodwin
The American West by Patrick N. Allitt
Waging a Good War by Thomas E. Ricks
Black Cowboys of Texas by Sara R. Massey
A Colony of Citizens by Laurent Dubois
Law School for Everyone by Eric Berger
Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow by Christopher Collier
Law School for Everyone by Edward K. Cheng
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr by R. Kent Newmyer
Bible and Sword by Barbara W. Tuchman
King by Jonathan Eig
it was amazing
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Porter’s last review of the year

really liked it
Ok, let's get this out of the way, this is NOT a book I would normally read. It is completely outside of my wheel house. The only reason why I read it is because I try to read all of the Pulitzer Prizes Non-Fictions every year, and the Non-Fiction Pulitzer' group read this as a book of the month.

That being said, I enjoyed the book more than I thought I would. I struggled with the book and the 'mysticism' involved until somebody pointed out that t
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