If you are familiar with this blog, you might know I started reading books (I won’t say exclusively, but a good 90% of them) in digital format back in 2016, with great results in terms of speed, satisfaction, user experience, availability of titles.

because I am an engineer at heart, I wanted to understand better what was the impact of digital on my book reading. here’s the result for last year, 2023, with number of books and pages read per month. I’ll be also posting stats for years 2016-2024 so we can reasonably start making some connections between the books I read and what was happening in my life and in the world.

here’s my book list for 2023, I read 27 books, a total of 12748 pages (highest number ever), with an average of 1062,3 pages/month.

• Stranger in a Strange Land  Heinlein, Robert A. 610
• To Be A Cat Haig, Matt 306
• Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements Strathern, Paul 320
• The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma  Kolk, Bessel van der 417
• Reamde Neal Stephenson 1055
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel Neal Stephenson 769
• Termination Shock Neal Stephenson 710
• Anathem Neal Stephenson 1083
• Il vento conosce il mio nome Isabel Allende 304
• The Memory Box  Kathryn Hughes 430
• Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Hernan Diaz 415
• Either/Or Elif Batuman 358
• Lessons Ian McEwan 484
• The Testaments  Margaret Atwood  401
• A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth: Stories  Daniel Mason  241
• The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 570
• Foregone  Russell Banks  322
• The Idiot Elif Batuman 419
• Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 644
• Still Life  Sarah Winman 449
• The Keeper of Stories  Sally Page 386
• Violeta Isabel Allende 341
• A Gentleman in Moscow  Amor Towles 378
• Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus 392
• Capolinea Malaussène Daniel Pennac 371
• Genuine Fraud E. Lockhart 290
• Family of Liar E. Lockhart 283