This year, I was treated to reading 3 texts by people I know in real life (!!). I also got to experience graphic novels, audiobooks and more non-fiction than I’ve read in a while. I read classics like East of Eden and The Call of Cthulhu and disorienting, inventive newcomers like Pure Colour. I found some new faves (Roxane Gay, I’ll read anything you write) and realized how much I’ve been missing out on great historical fiction (like Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell).
And I only abandoned one book this year! Sorry, My Name is Red, I really wanted to like you.
Here’s everything I read in 2023.
My 2023 Best and Worst
Favourite book (fiction): Greenwood by Michael Christie; The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Least favourite book (fiction): As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Favourite book (non-fiction): Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay; Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Least favourite book (non-fiction): 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
Favourite poetry collection: Xanax Cowboy: Poems by Hannah Green
If you’re on Goodreads, feel free to follow me! You can check out all of the books I read in 2022, 2021, and 2020.
P.S. In 2021, I read 55 books! Here are my tips for reading more.
*Excerpt from The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path for Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
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