2023 has been the year of books for me. I have read 102 books which is the most I've ever read in one year. After reading so many books, I thought I'd share with you what I read, what I would recommend reading, and which books didn't quite live up to the hype for me.
Most of these books were read on my Kindle, but some were physical books, and some were audiobooks.
Books read in 2023
1. The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
2. How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
3. Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
4. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo
5. Dark Across the Bay by Ania Ahlborn
6. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
7. The Panic Years by Nell Frizzell
8. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
9. Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
10. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
11. Foe by Iain Reid
12. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
13. Twisted Love by Ana Huang
14. Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
15. The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
16. The Housemaid's Secret by Frieda McFadden
17. The Inmate by Frieda McFadden
18. Run on Red by Noelle W. Ihli
19. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
20. Never Lie by Frieda McFadden
21. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
22. What Lies Between Us by John Marrs
23. Verity by Colleen Hoover
24. Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry
25. The Chain by Adrian McKinty
26. The Best of Friends by Lucinda Berry
27. Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
28. How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
29. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
30. No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara
31. You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
32. Heartstopper Vol 1 by Alice Oseman
33. Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
34. Solitaire by Alice Oseman
35. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
36. Heartstopper Vol 2 by Alice Oseman
37. Heartstopper Vol 3 by Alice Oseman
38. Heartstopper Vol 4 by Alice Oseman
39. Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman
40. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
41. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
42. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
43. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
44. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
45. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
46. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
47. This Winter by Alice Oseman
48. A Welcome Reunion by Lucinda Berry
49. Loveless by Alice Oseman
50. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
51. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
52. Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
53. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
54. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
55. Ward D by Frieda McFadden
56. Happy Place by Emily Henry
57. The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry
58. Why Had Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
59. Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry
60. Spare by Prince Harry
61. The Good Samaritan
62. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
63. Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
64. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
65. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
66. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
67. Drowning by T.J. Newman
68. The Villa by Ruth Kelly
69. Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris
70. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
71. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
72. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
73. My Week with Him by Joya Goffney
74. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
75. Witches Get Stuff Done by Molly Harper
76. If You Read This by Kereen Getten
77. Eight Winter Nights by Liz Maverick
78. The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
79. Pairs: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
80. The Only One Left by Riley Sager
81. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
82. One by One by Freida McFadden
83. Everything I Know about Love by Dolly Alderton
84. The List by Yomi Adegoke
85. A Winter in New York by Josie Silver
86. My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen
87. My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
88. I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
89. The Girlfriend by K. L. Slater
90. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
91. Under Her Care by Lucinda Berry
92. Five Survive by Holly Jackson
93. Maame by Jessica George
94. Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
95. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
96. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
97. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
98. Keep it in the Family by John Marrs
99. November 9 by Colleen Hoover
100. Heartstopper Vol 5 by Alice Oseman
101. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
102. Cat Lady by Dawn O’Porter
Books I rated 5 star that you should add to your reading list
- Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
- What Lies Between Us by John Marrs
- Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry (trigger warning this is the most upsetting and dark book I've ever read)
- The Chain by Adrian McKinty
- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (all volumes)
- It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
- Loveless by Alice Oseman
- Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
- Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
- Appetite for Innocence by Lucinda Berry
- Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
- The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
- Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
- My Thoughts Exactly by Lily Allen
- Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
- Cat Lady by Dawn O’Porter
Books I expected to be better
- The Housemaid's Secret by Frieda McFadden (sequel to The Housemaid)
- Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
- How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
- You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
- Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
- The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- Happy Place by Emily Henry
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
My authors of the year
- Freida McFadden
- Joya Goffney
- Alice Oseman
- Lucinda Berry
- Colleen Hoover
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
7 comments
That's a LOT of books! I loved I'm Glad My Mom Died too, that was such an eye opening read.
ReplyDeleteOh wow that's amazing you read 102 books in 2023! I read I'm Glad My Mom Died, and it was fantastic. I read Heartstopper Vol 1-4 in 2022, but I read This Winter in 2023 and I liked it! I also received Vol 5 as a Christmas gift, so I'm excited to read it! I did read Hidden Pictures amd Daisy Jones and the Six in 2023, and both were great too. I just finished Convenience Store Woman, and it was a bit weird, but I liked it.
ReplyDeleteWow you really have read a lot of books in 2023! I read How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie and I did love it, but I know that there has been mixed reviews on that book x
ReplyDeleteLucy Mary
What a great list of books! I enjoyed a lot of the ones you listed as 5 star reads too, like Jennette McCurdy, Britney Spears & Paris Hilton's books were all really great! I didn't know Lily Allen wrote a book, I'm definitely going to check that out! Thanks for sharing this! :)
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That's a lot of books. I only read a couple of those - I'm trying to clear out all the ones I've read over the years so they're all older ones.
ReplyDeleteI just completed reading a few of riveting books, and I can't help but wonder at the power of words on paper. The authors have an exceptional capacity to take readers to many realms and elicit a wide range of emotions. ghost writing , in my opinion, is an underappreciated literary art form. It's intriguing how these skilled authors operate behind the scenes.
ReplyDeleteGosh, you read a lot! I only started reading again in Dec of last year, and my book count for 2024 is 23. I think that's great for someone who stopped reading for 7 years x
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