BOOKS READ IN 2023

• My favorite read of the year was: Wellness by Nathan Hill (My runners up are Family Family by Frankel and The Wedding People by Alison Espach)
• My favorite sci-fi (sortof) read of the year was: Fourth Wing
• My favorite Fantasy read of the year was: The Book of Doors
• My favorite uplit read of the year was: Cassandra in Reverse
• My favorite nonfiction read of the year was: Radiant Rebellion
• My favorite Historical Fiction read of the year was: The Women
• My favorite Mystery read of the year was: Small Mercies
• My favorite graphic novel read of the year was: When Stars are Scattered

Here are a few other books I loved

• The River We Remember
• Go As a River
• Queen of Dirt Island
• Shark Heart
• The Second Ending
• After Annie
• The Last Murder at the End of the World
• The Heart of it All
• Thornhedge
• The Other Mother
• Adeleide
• Tom Lake
• The Bird Hotel
• The Vulnerables
• Tell Me How to Be
• Foster
• Happiness Falls

Here are all 202 books I’ve read this year. You can see my goodreads reviews here.

1. A Chance for Us (Willow Creek Valley, #4)
2. A Love Letter to Whiskey
3. A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
4. A Short Walk Through a Wide World
5. A Woman’s Guide to Inner Child Healing: Overcome Trauma, Recognize Your Feelings, Learn to Let the Past Go, and Become the Best Version of Yourself
6. Absolution
7. Adelaide
8. After Annie
9. All the Dangerous Things
10. Always Human
11. Amazing Grace Adams
12. Antarctica
13. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
14. Art for Self-Care: Create Powerful, Healing Art by Listening to Your Inner Voice
15. August Blue
16. Babel
17. Baby X
18. Beautiful Shining People: The extraordinary, EPIC speculative masterpiece…
19. Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)
20. Before She Finds Me
21. Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
22. Beginner’s Guide to Sketching Buildings & Landscapes: Perspective and Proportions for Drawing Architecture, Gardens and More! (With over 500 illustrations)
23. Beverly Bonnefinche Is Dead
24. Big Swiss
25. Birnam Wood
26. But You Have Friends
27. Bye, Baby
28. Cassandra in Reverse
29. Check & Mate
30. City People
31. Come and Get It
32. Creative Wanderlust: Unlock Your Artistic Potential Through Mixed-Media Art Journaling Techniques – With 8 sheets of printed papers for journaling and collage
33. Damsel
34. Day
35. Demon Copperhead
36. Drowning
37. Every Summer After
38. Everyone Here Is Lying
39. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
40. Everything’s Fine
41. Excavations
42. Expiration Dates
43. Family Family
44. Family Lore
45. Fellowship Point
46. Foster
47. Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
48. French Holiday
49. Gender Is Really Strange
50. Gender Queer
51. Go as a River
52. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
53. Gone Tonight
54. Happiness Falls
55. Hello Stranger
56. Homebodies
57. How To Be Remembered
58. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
59. I Feel Awful, Thanks
60. I Have Some Questions for You
61. I’m Glad My Mom Died
62. If Something Happens to Me
63. If We’re Being Honest
64. In the Dream House
65. In the Lives of Puppets
66. Ink Blood Sister Scribe
67. Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
68. Just Another Missing Person
69. Korean Grammar for Beginners Textbook + Workbook Included: Supercharge Your Korean With Essential Lessons and Exercises
70. Kritzelpixel
71. Learn to Draw in 5 Weeks: A Beginner’s Workbook for All Ages
72. Little Monsters
73. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
74. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)
75. Lost in Time
76. Lost to Dune Road
77. Love, Theoretically
78. Man’s Search for Meaning
79. Meet Me at the Lake
80. My Murder
81. Never Lie
82. Nightcrawling
83. None of This Is True
84. One Moment
85. One of the Girls
86. One Puzzling Afternoon
87. Only If You’re Lucky
88. Only Love Can Hurt Like This
89. Pageboy
90. Pineapple Street
91. Promise Boys
92. Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
93. Remember Love
94. Ripe
95. Romantic Comedy
96. Rules for Second Chances
97. Savor It
98. Sea Change
99. Shark Heart
100. She Gets the Girl
101. Silicon Hearts
102. Small Mercies
103. Someday, Maybe
104. Speech Team
105. Starling House
106. Symphony of Secrets
107. Tangled Up in You (Meant to Be, #4)
108. Tell Me How to Be
109. The Art of the Line in Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Simple, Expressive Drawings
110. The Bandit Queens
111. The Beauty of Rain
112. The Bird Hotel
113. The Block Party
114. The Book of Doors
115. The Celebrants
116. The Connellys of County Down
117. The Coworker
118. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
119. The Eden Test
120. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
121. The Endless Vessel
122. The Family Game
123. The Five-Star Weekend
124. The Good Part
125. The Guilty Husband
126. The Heart of It All
127. The Heiress
128. The Hike
129. The Honeymoon Crashers (Unhoneymooners, #1.5)
130. The Intern
131. The Invisible Hour
132. The Last Love Note
133. The Last Murder at the End of the World
134. The Last Ranger
135. The Lightkeeper’s Daughters
136. The Lost Bookshop
137. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
138. The Marriage Act
139. The Memo
140. The Minimum Method
141. The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
142. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
143. The Other Mother
144. The Other Valley
145. The Passengers
146. The Plus One (A Brush with Love, #3)
147. The Possibilities
148. The Queen of Dirt Island
149. The Quiet Tenant
150. The Rachel Incident
151. The River We Remember
152. The Second Chance Year
153. The Second Ending
154. The Senator’s Wife
155. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
156. The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters, #1)
157. The Seven Year Slip
158. The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds #1)
159. The Sweet Spot
160. The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
161. The Takedown
162. The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)
163. The Third Person
164. The Throwback Special
165. The Trail of Lost Hearts
166. The True Love Experiment
167. The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
168. The Unmaking of June Farrow
169. The Vaster Wilds
170. The Villa
171. The Vulnerables
172. The Way Forward
173. The Wedding People
174. The Whispers
175. The Wishing Game
176. The Women
177. These Impossible Things
178. Thistlefoot
179. Thornhedge
180. Through the Snow Globe
181. Throwback
182. Till There Was You
183. Tom Lake
184. Translation State
185. True Believer (Terminal List, #2)
186. Watch Us Shine
187. Watercolor Your Way: Techniques, Palettes, and Projects To Fit Your Skill Level and Creative Goals
188. We Are All So Good at Smiling
189. Wellness
190. What Alice Forgot
191. What Lies in the Woods
192. What We Could Have Been
193. When Stars Are Scattered
194. Wolf Hollow (Lew Ferris, #1)
195. Women of Good Fortune
196. Yellowface
197. You Always Feel Better When…: Five-Minute Reset Exercises to Change the Day
198. You Are Here
199. You, with a View
200. Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)