I read 115 books in 2023, down from last year but I’m pretty pleased! I also DNFd 7 books, so I’m slowly getting better at walking away from books I’m not enjoying.
If you’d like to see more info about what I read this year, I track my reading on Goodreads and The Storygraph!
Of those 115 books, only one was an audiobook! I still struggle with audio. 37 were print, and the rest were ebooks.
The majority of the books I read were prose, but I also read:
- one novella;
- one book of poetry;
- 20 comics/graphic novels;
- two essay collections; and
- one short story collection.
Seven of the books I read were re-reads, which is a huge number for me. I’m going to try and re-read some more favourites next year.
20 of the books I read this year came from the library, 19 were review copies, 23 were from my Scribd subscription, and the rest were a mix of books I bought this year and books I already owned.
With all of that said, here are my 11 favourite reads of 2023 (not including books I re-read), because I couldn’t narrow it down to 10, listed in chronological order (links take you to my reviews or, if I haven’t reviewed them yet, to Goodreads):
- Episode Thirteen, Craig DiLouie;
- Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller, Meredith Ireland;
- Stone Cold Fox, Rachel Koller Croft;
- Death of a Bookseller, Alice Slater;
- The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, Megan Bannen;
- Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld;
- Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross;
- The Trap, Catherine Ryan Howard;
- The Fragile Threads of Power, V.E. Schwab;
- Bookworm, Robin Yeatman (review to come); and
- The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, Cory Doctorow (review to come).
How was your reading year?
