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2023 WRAP UP

Another year over and gosh it’s been a busy one! I got a lot busier towards the end 2023, what with starting a new job and picking up old hobbies again. So much so, I found my reading took a bit of a dive in the second half of the year.

I didn’t give myself a specific reading challenge this year. Instead, I wanted to end the year with fewer unread books on my shelves than I had at the start of the year. I managed to achieve this (just about). I’m hoping that to continue reducing that tbr pile, in particular making sure to read more of my classics.

Thank you for following my reading journeys this year. I wish you all a happy new year!

2023 reading stats:
  • Books read = 62
  • Pages read = 24,869
  • Longest book = Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas (980 pages)
  • Shortest book = We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson (146 pages)
  • Oldest book = The Nutcracker by E.T.A Hoffmann (1816)
  • Books purchased = 48
  • Top books: Peach Blossom Spring, Elektra, The Dark Queens, Ballad of Never After, Crooked House, Lessons in Chemistry, SPQR, Kingdom of Ash, Revelation, House of Sky and Breath

My 2023 reads:
  1. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
  2. The Golem and the Djinni - Helene Wecker
  3. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  4. Peach Blossom Spring - Melissa Fu
  5. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
  6. A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J Maas
  7. Chain of Thorns - Cassandra Clare
  8. La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
  9. The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas
  10. Elektra - Jennifer Saint
  11. The Dictator's Wife - Freya Berry
  12. The House with the Golden Door - Elodie Harper
  13. Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
  14. The Dance Tree - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  15. SPQR - Mary Beard
  16. Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
  17. Certain Dark Things - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  18. Kingdom of Ash - Sarah J Maas
  19. How to Kill Your Family - Bella Mackie
  20. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab
  21. Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie
  22. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  23. Poisoned - Jennifer Donnelly
  24. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - J.M. Barrie
  25. Crooked House - Agatha Christie
  26. Femina - Janina Ramirez
  27. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
  28. House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J Maas
  29. Maurice - E.M. Forster
  30. Joan - Katherine J. Chen
  31. Memphis - Tara M. Stringfellow
  32. The No-Show - Beth O'Leary
  33. Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
  34. Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie
  35. City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert
  36. The Ballad of Never After - Stephanie Garber
  37. A Court of Silver Flames - Sarah J Maas
  38. The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
  39. The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
  40. The Dead Father Club - Matt Haig
  41. Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes
  42. The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
  43. Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson
  44. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  45. Revelation - C.J. Sansom
  46. The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer
  47. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
  48. Violeta - Isabel Allende
  49. The Unhoneymooners - Christina Lauren
  50. Agatha Christie - Lucy Worsley
  51. Kingdom of the Feared - Kerri Maniscalco
  52. The Silent Companions - Laura Purcell
  53. My Roommate is a Vampire - Jenna Levine
  54. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
  55. House of Breath and Sky - Sarah J Maas
  56. Autumn Chills - Agatha Christie
  57. The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  58. The Clockwork Girl - Anna Mazzola
  59. The Nutcracker - E.T.A Hoffmann
  60. The Winter Garden - Alexandra Bell
  61. The Dark Queens - Shelley Puhak
  62. Love Theoretically - Ali Hazelwood

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