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2023
My Year in Books
119,260
pages read
Brian Eshleman
332
books read
Brian Eshleman
Tocqueville and the American Experiment by William R. Cook
Shortest Book
12
pages
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Longest Book
1,345
pages
Average book length in 2023
359
pages
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Most Shelved
935,509
people also shelved
Born Identity by Pinedale Christian church
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved
Brian’s average rating for 2023
3.6
3.6
The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.88 average
The Summer Game by Roger Angell

Brian’s first review of the year

really liked it
Missing Link between my father's dalliance with baseball through the mid-60's and the game I came to know and love as a child of the 80's. Expansion, the move indoors, and the protracted competition for Americans' attention and entertainment dollar that baseball once took for granted are chronicled with prose that isn't argumentative for the Good Old Days or manipulatively emotional. Instead, Angell uses a light, lyrical style to look in on the g ...more
BRIAN’S 2023 BOOKS
The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff
really liked it
The Dirty Tricks Department by John Lisle
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Hidden in Plain View by Jacqueline L. Tobin
The true Christian by Lester Bauman
Tocqueville and the American Experiment by William R. Cook
The First Total War by David A. Bell
Idols of the Heart by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
The Age of Benjamin Franklin by Robert J. Allison
really liked it
Jesus by Paul Johnson
Pilgrims and Puritans by Christopher Collier
American Carnage by Tim Alberta
The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord
When People Are Big and God is Small by Edward T. Welch
The German War by Nicholas Stargardt
War on Peace by Ronan Farrow
Betrayal by The Boston Globe
Rebels at Sea by Eric Jay Dolin
Protestants Abroad by David A. Hollinger
Friends Divided by Gordon S. Wood
really liked it
The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes
The Mechanical Bride by Marshall McLuhan
Dominion by Tom Holland
A Call to Darkness by Michael Jan Friedman
Good Boundaries and Goodbyes by Lysa TerKeurst
Adam Smith’s America by Glory M. Liu
You Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
Over Here by Edward Humes
Seven Men by Eric Metaxas
Pale Rider by Laura Spinney
Root and Branch by Rawn James Jr.
Gentle and Lowly by Dane C. Ortlund
it was amazing
Sooley by John Grisham
After the Revolution by Joseph J. Ellis
The Challenge by Andrew D. Lambert
How to Beat a Broken Game by Pedro Moura
Let's Do It by Bob Stanley
The Heart of the Order by Thomas Boswell
The Defender by Ethan Michaeli
1962 by David Krell
really liked it
Infamy by Richard Reeves
Unshackling America by Willard Sterne Randall
On Paradise Drive by David Brooks
Rightful Heritage by Douglas Brinkley
The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parkin
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church by Alan Kreider
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Platonic by Marisa G. Franco
it was amazing
The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
Superman by Mark Millar
The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs by The New Yorker
Superman by Mark Millar
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu
The Racketeer by John Grisham
The Chief by David Nasaw
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
really liked it
American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
Our First Civil War by H.W. Brands
Beyond Bin Laden by Jon Meacham
Bloodlines by John Piper
really liked it
The World Remade by G.J. Meyer
Triumph by Jeremy Schaap
Slouching Towards Utopia by Bradford DeLong
The Last Folk Hero by Jeff Pearlman
The Summer Game by Roger Angell
Loose Balls by Terry Pluto
The Third Reconstruction by Peniel E. Joseph
Superman by Mark Millar
On Rebuke and Grace by Augustine of Hippo
really liked it
The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel
That's the Way It Is by Charles L. Ponce de Leon
Have I Told You This Already? by Lauren Graham
Watch for the Light by Charles Moore
Incognito by David Eagleman
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
How Do We Look by Mary Beard
The Victorian City by Judith Flanders
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
really liked it
Lessons From Lucy by Dave Barry
Bill Moyers Journal by Bill Moyers
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild
Predestination of the Saints by Augustine of Hippo
Wonder Woman Unbound by Tim Hanley
Admissions by Kendra James
Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson
Born Identity by Pinedale Christian church
really liked it
Imagining the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith
A Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David
General MacArthur and President Truman by Richard H. Rovere
Comeback Season by Cam Perron
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Lincoln's Last Hours by Charles Augustus Leale
Lincoln's Secret Spy by Jane Singer
The Legacy of Luther by R.C. Sproul
American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley

Brian’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Great book. Brinkley will immerse you in the JFK-fueled optimism of the early 60s, then deftly channel that enthusiasm into teaching you about the how-we-got-here of it that always draws me The New Yorker magazine's read on any given moment. Brinkley will point out the blind spots without so dwelling there as to belittle those participating in history in real-time. ...more
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