What did you read in 2023?

[Swampy_sahagin]

This has been a big year for getting back into reading, for me. Particularly religion and philosophy, though I do want to get into fantasy and history (maybe some sci-fi and others) as well.

What I read this year:
The Tao Te Ching
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu / Zhuangzi
The Reign of Quantity
Beyond Good and Evil (Kaufmann translation)
Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius
Beyond Belief (Elaine Pagels)
The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle
The Gnostic Gospels
The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
The Nag Hammadi Library (James M. Robertson)

I'm open to any recommendations as well!

 

[whyfish]

That's a very impressive reading list! I read Tao Te Ching in my teens and I think it had a pretty big influence on my worldview. I was really into Taoist philosophy for a while.

I didn't do a whole lot of reading last year (though I hope to make up for it this year) but I did finally get around to reading this book of short stories by China Miéville that I'd bought back in 2017-2018, and it turns out China Miéville is actually pretty relevant to my interests, so then I read The City & The City, which feels relevant to a lot of things right now.

 

[Swampy_sahagin]

I read Tao Te Ching in my teens and I think it had a pretty big influence on my worldview. I was really into Taoist philosophy for a while.

It was an enjoyable and beneficial read, it kind of re-framed for me a lot of concepts and ideas I'm already familiar with from Buddhism, which was (and is, maybe?) my first religion that I studied and practiced after having been raised atheist.

The City & The City sounds interesting, too.

 

[LeifSalad]

i really like brandon sanderson book's for fantasy since it doesnt contain horny which is rare in the fantasy genre so i definitely recommend mistborn