Monday, December 18, 2023

2023 In the Books

At the end of every year, I have a lot of traditional posts I do - one being a list of the books I read. This year was a tough reading year for me. I didn't really love a lot of books. I gave up on more than I ever had before, and I had a really hard time finding anything that would hold my attention or keep me interested. But somehow, I still managed to do a lot of reading! 


Here are the books I read in 2023:


Five Stars

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers by Lisa Damour

The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

Let’s Talk About Religion and Mental Health by Daniel K. Judd


Four Stars

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St, James

Close Enough to Touch by Colleen Oakley

The Collector’s Daughter by Gill Paul

Divine Quietness by Emily Robison Adams 

The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay 

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham 

Flight Patterns by Karen White

Go As a River by Shelley Read

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

The House of Eve by Sedeqa Johnson

How Lucky by Will Leitch

The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Let’s Talk About Science & Religion by Jamie L. Jensen 

Living the Parables by Hank Smith

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki 

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay 

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

The Other Dr. Gilmer by Benjamin Gilmer

Our Day Star Rising by Jeffrey R. Holland

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

Starfish by Lisa Fipps

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Weyward by Emilia Hart

When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain 

Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan

Yellow Wife by Sedeqa Johnson


Three Stars

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell’Antonia

The Choice by Edith Eger

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

The Couple Nextdoor by Shari Lapena 

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

The Forgotten Ones by Steena Holmes

For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing

Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 

How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Look What You Made Me Do by Elaine Murphy

The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagan 

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah


Two Stars

The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult 

If Not for Her by Debbie Macomber

No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

On Being Human by Jennifer Pastiloff

Too Good to be True by Carola Lovering


One Star

Prize Women by Caroline Lea

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

With My Little Eye by Joshilyn Jackson


Unrated

An Unseen Angel by Alissa Parker

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Far Above Rubies by Tammy Uzelac Hall

Prophets See Around Corners by Sheri Dew

Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman


Series

The Hunger Games (1-3)****

The Inheritance Games (1-3)***

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (1-18)****


Still in progress:

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner

Thirteen by Steve Cavanaugh

What We Find by Robyn Carr



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