Saturday, December 30, 2023

ALL THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023 RANKED

I read 105 books this year, with five 5-star reads! My total page count was 36,720 with an average of 350 pages/book. My average rating was 3.53. I read:

  • 33.3% (35 books) contemporary
  • 17.1% (18 books) fantasy
  • 15.2% (16 books) STMH (suspense, thriller, mystery, horror)
  • 15.2% (16 books) science fiction
  • 6.7% (7 books) historical fiction
  • 5.7% (6 books) nonfiction
  • 3.8% (4 books) mythology/retellings
  • 2.9% (3 books) classics
74% of my reads were from library with only 26% from my own collection. 58% were audiobooks, 29% physical books, and 13% eBooks.

My ranking:

  1. Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1) by Rebecca Ross
  2. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
  3. Heartstopper, Vol. 4 by Alice Oseman
  4. Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
  5. Heartstopper, Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman
  6. Bad Girls with Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten
  7. Happy Place by Emily Henry
  8. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
  9. Solitaire by Alice Oseman
  10. Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7) by Sarah J. Maas
  11. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
  12. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
  13. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
  14. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  15. Clytemnestra by Constanza Casati
  16. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) by Elle Cosimano
  17. Glitterland by Alexis Hall
  18. Zero Days by Ruth Ware
  19. All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
  20. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  21. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
  22. In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
  23. Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica
  24. Crier's War (Crier's War, #1) by Nina Varela
  25. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
  26. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
  27. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
  28. Maame by Jessica George
  29. Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
  30. We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
  31. Iron Heart (Crier's War, #2) by Nina Varela
  32. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
  33. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
  34. This Winter by Alice Oseman
  35. The Adventures of Amina Al-Sarafi (Amina Al-Sarafi, #1) by S.A. Chakraborty
  36. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  37. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
  38. The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson
  39. The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores
  40. Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett
  41. Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  42. A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
  43. Paperweight by Meg Haston
  44. Even Though I Knew The End by C.L. Polk
  45. Radiant Sin (Dark Olympus, #4) by Katee Robert
  46. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom, #1) by Amelie Wen Zhao
  47. The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews
  48. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
  49. Atalanta by Jennifer Saint
  50. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
  51. A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
  52. Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim
  53. Watching You by Lisa Jewell
  54. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  55. The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
  56. What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
  57. The Stand by Stephen King
  58. Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
  59. Ascension by Nicholas Binge
  60. The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0) by Adam Silvera
  61. Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone, #1) by Alexandra Bracken
  62. The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
  63. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
  64. Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
  65. Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
  66. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
  67. Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
  68. The River at Night by Erica Ferencik
  69. Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
  70. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  71. Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
  72. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
  73. Cruel Seduction (Dark Olympus, #5) by Katee Robert
  74. Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens
  75. The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams
  76. Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
  77. The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
  78. The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
  79. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez
  80. She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
  81. Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6) by Sarah J. Maas
  82. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  83. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  84. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Not Rated:
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  • Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
  • The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
  • Red, White, and Royal Blue* by Casey McQuiston
  • Saga, Volumes 1-11 by Brian K. Vaughan
  • Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening by Majorie Liu
  • My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • The Wager by David Grann
  • Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood by Majorie Liu
  • Monstress, Volume 3: Haven by Majorie Liu

*reread