A Year In Books: 2023

 

I'm always delving into stories to escape my own life. I love to listen to audiobooks when I'm doing things around my house or tedious things at work, etc. I love being able to have the best of both worlds with reading great stories and still getting other things done. I was just shy of my yearly goal of reading 30 books, but 28 books is still pretty darn close. Here are the books I read this year:

1. Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan
2. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
3. Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
4. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
5. New Spring by Robert Jordan

6. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
7. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
8. Dying of Politeness by Geena Davis
9. Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
10. The Cloisters by Katy Hays

11. The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
12. A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
13. All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
14. Hooked by Sutton Foster
15. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

16. Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
17. The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
18. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
19. Piranesi by Susanna Clark
20. Pines by Blake Crouch

21. The Signalman by Charles Dickens
22. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
23. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
24. Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
25. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

26. Wayward by Blake Crouch
27. The Woman in Me by Brittney Spears
28. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

I finished the entire Wheel of Time series in 2 years, which I'm pretty surprised by honestly, and it left a hole after I finished because I could always fall back on reading the next book in the series. I've never been a series gal, but I did like that I didn't have to think about what I wanted to read next because there was more to the story. I also read the first 2 books of Wayward Pines and I'm waiting my turn with the final book there. The only series I'm reading that is still actively going is the Cormoran Strike books and I anxiously await the next installment all the time. I just love Rowling's writing style and will read everything she does. Some of the books I read were duds, but overall I enjoyed most everything I read in 2023. Here's hoping that 2024 brings more insights and great stories to enrich us all :)