In 2022 I set an ambitious reading goal of 100 books. I was fooling myself if I thought I could pull out another 100 books for the year. Instead, I settled for 52 books, which equates to a book a week, which is completely doable.
Books Read or Listened to in 2023
A = Audiobook
B = Physical Book
DNF = Did not finish
E = Ebook
⭐ & 🌶️ = Rating
- Kat t. Masen – #JERK (E) ⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️ ½
- Kristin Hannah – The Four Winds (A) ⭐⭐⭐
- Gabrielle Zevin – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (B)⭐⭐⭐
- Elise Downing – Coasting (B) ⭐⭐⭐
- Sarah Adams – The Cheat Sheet (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐🌶️🌶️🌶️ ½
- Melissa Urban – The Book of Boundaries (E) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Michelle Upton – Terms of Inheritance (A) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See (B) ⭐⭐
- Emma Lord – You Have a Match (A) ⭐⭐⭐
- Rachel Vincent – No One is Alone (B) ⭐⭐⭐
- Nina Kenwood – Unnecessary Drama (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️
- Iris Morland – The Nearness of you (E) ⭐⭐
- Colleen Coleman – For Once in My Life (E) ⭐⭐⭐
- Sarah Krasnostein – The Trauma Cleaner (A) ⭐⭐⭐
- Nicholas Sparks – Dreamland (B)⭐⭐¾
- Tillie Cole – A Thousand Boy Kisses (E)⭐⭐⭐⭐¼
- JA Huss – Tragic (A) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️ ½
- Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone – This is How You Lose the Time War (B) ⭐¾
- The Oatmeal – How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You (E) ⭐⭐
- Bonnie Garmus – Lessons in Chemistry (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Tarryn Fisher – F*ck Love (E) ⭐⭐
- Taylor Jenkins Reid – Carrie Soto is Back (B) ⭐⭐⭐¼
- JA Huss & Johnathan McClain – The Sexpert (E) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️¾
- JA Huss – Mania (A) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️
- Sally Thorne – The Hating Game (B) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️ ¾
- Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (E) ⭐⭐⭐
- Mary E. Pearson – The Kiss of Deception (B) ⭐⭐⭐
- JA Huss – Panic (A) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️
- Lisa Damour – The Emotional Lives of Teenagers (E) ⭐⭐⭐¼
- Mary E. Pearson – The Heart of Betrayal (E) ⭐⭐⭐
- JA Huss & Johnathan McClain – Sin With Me (E) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ ¼
- Matt Stanton – The Power of Being Odd (E) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Alison Cochrun – Kiss Her Once for Me (B) ⭐⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️
- JA Huss – Spencer (A) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️
- Mary E. Pearson – The Beauty of Darkness (B) ⭐⭐
- Veronica Larsen – Enamor (E) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️
- Erin Morgenstern – The Night Circus (B) ⭐⭐¾
- Melissa Storm – Must Love Music (E) ⭐⭐
- Meg Mason – You Be Mother (E) ⭐⭐⭐½|🌶️ ¾
- Mary Frame – Imperfect Chemistry (E) ⭐⭐⭐½|🌶️🌶️🌶️ ¾
- Michelle McCraw – Trip Me Up (E) ⭐⭐⭐½|🌶️🌶️🌶️ ¾
- Holly Ringland – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (A) ⭐⭐⭐
- Hannah Grace – Icebreaker (B) ⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ ½
- Gretchen Rubin – Life in Five Senses (E) ⭐⭐⭐¼
- Maisie Hill – Perimenopause Power (A) ⭐⭐½
- R.F Kuang – Yellowface (A) ⭐⭐⭐½
- Juliet Marillier – Daughter of the Forest (E) ⭐⭐⭐
- Shannan Bright – Every Wish Way (A) ⭐⭐⭐
- Tessa Bailey – Secretly Yours (E)⭐⭐⭐|🌶️🌶️
In the past, I was the type of person that if I started a book, I needed to finish the book.
There were so many books that I wanted to love, that I forced myself to read, and I regretted it.
This is why if I’m not feeling a book by 50 pages in or 50% in, I give permission to myself to not finish it.
Books that I should have DNF’d but didn’t.
- Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow
- All the Light We Cannot See
- This is how you lose the time war
- The Night Circus
I really wanted to like these books, but they just weren’t for me. Just because a book is hyped up, doesn’t mean that you are going to enjoy it, or if it’s to you.
These are the books that I actually DNF’d.
Books I DNF’d
- Christopher McDougal – Natural Born Heroes (E & DNF)
- Myke Cole – The Armored Saint (B & DNF)
- J. Daniels – Sweet Addiction (E & DNF)
- Thomas Erikson – Surrounded by Idiots (B & DNF)