Books Read in 2023

 

1.  Night Shift; Robin Cook - audio - 4/5 stars (January)
2. Women Talking; Miriam Toews - audio - 3.5/5 stars
3. It Ends with Us; Colleen Hoover - 4audio - 4/5 stars
4. The Levee: a novella; William Kent Krueger - audio - 3.5/5 stars
5. Looking for Me; Beth Hoffman (reread for book group) - 5/5 stars
6. Ms. Demeanor; Elinor Lipman - audio - 4/5 stars
7. Rough Sleepers: Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People; Tracey Kidder - NF/audio - 4.5.5 stars - February
8. The Stolen Lady; Laurea Morelli - 3.5/5 stars (audio) book group read February
9. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; Taylor Jenkins Reid - 3/5 stars - (book group) March
10. The Couple at Number 9; Claire Douglas - 3.5/5 stars (audio)
11. Hello, Beautiful; Ann Napolitano - 4.5/5 stars (April)
12. The Forest of Vanishing Stars; Kristin Harmel - 4.5/5 stars (book group)
13. The Half Moon; Mary Beth Keane - 3.5/5 stars (audio) (May)
14. Mad Honey; Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan  - 5/5 stars (print/audio)
15. The Kind Worth Saving; Peter Swanson - 3.5/5 stars (audio)
16. Soulmate; Sally Hepworth - 4.5/5 stars - (audio)
17. The House in the Pines; Ana Reyes  - 3.5/5 stars (audio)
18. A House with Good Bones; T. Kingfisher - 3.5/5 stars (audio)
19. Gone Tonight; Sarah Pekkanen - 5/5 stars - audio (June) 
20. What Comes Next & How to Like It (NF); Abigail Thomas - 4/5 stars (audio)
21. Finding Me (memoir); Viola Davis - 5/5 stars (audio)
22. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water; Angie Cruz (audio) 4.5/5 stars
23. Small Mercies; Dennis Lehane - (audio) 4.5/5 stars
24. The Bird Hotel; Joyce Maynard - (audio) 4.5/5 stars
25. Sunflower Sisters; Martha Hall Kelly (book group- June) - 3.5/5 stars
26. Central Park West; James Comey - (audio) - 4/5 stars
27. The Five Star Weekend; Elin Hilderbrand - (audio) 4.5/5 stars (July)
28. The Guest; Emma Cline - (audio) 3/5 stars
29. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing (NF); Stephanie Foo - 3.5/5 stars
30. The People's Hospital: Hope & Peril in America (NF); Ricardo Nulia - 4/5 stars
31. The Collective Regrets of Clover; Nikki Brammer (audio) - 4.5/5 stars
32. How to Sell a Haunted House; Grady Hendrix - (audio) 2/5 stars
33. The Drowning Woman; Robyn Harding - (audio) 4/5 stars (September)
34. The Measure, Nikki Erich (reread- book group)
35. Lucy By the Sea; Elizabeth Strout (reread - book group Sept)
36. Tom Lake; Ann Patchett (audio) 4.5/5 stars (October)
37. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell; Robert Dugong (current read - Oct Bookgroup)
38. Happiness Falls; Angie Kim (audio) 3.5/5 stars 
39. Holly, Stephen King (audio) 3.5/5 stars November
40. Metamorphosis, Kafka - 4/5 stars (audio)
41. Beyond that, the Sea, Laura Spencer-Ash (book group) - 4/5 stars 
42. So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan - 4/5 stars December
43. Elon Musk, Walter Isaccson - NF/Bio/audio - 4.5/5 stars
44. One of Our Own, Lucinda Berry - audio 4.5/5 stars
45. A Dream Life, Claire Messud - 3/5 stars
46. The Mystery Guest, Nita Prose 4/5 stars (audio)

• Fiction - 38
• Non Fiction -  8
• Children's Books - 
• Print Books (includes ARCS) (my shelves) - 
• Print Books (library) - 5
• eBooks/eGalleys (my shelves) -
• eBooks (library) -
• Audiobooks (my shelves) - 9
• Audiobooks (library) - 35
• Combo (read/listens) - 4
• Female Authors - 34
• Male Authors - 11
• January Books Read - 6
• February Books Read - 2
• March - 2
• April - 2
• May - 5
• June - 8
• July - 6
• August - 0
• Sept - 2
• Oct - 3
• Nov - 3
• Dec - 5

DNF - 

1. We Should Not Be Friends; Will Schwalbe - abandoned at 27% wasn't holding my interest (May)
2. The Book of Goose; Yiyun Li - audio abandoned at about 30% - couldn't connect with story (May)

Here's to a Better 2023 and Favorite Reads of 2022

 

Hello all! Please forgive my abrupt disappearance from the blog (and life in general.) 2022 has not been a kind year for our household. One bad thing after another and it even meant ringing out 2022 with my first case of COVID...Day 3 of isolation here.  Here is to a much better 2023.  I'm not planning on too much blogging at least the first several months of the year due to vision issues.  I'm having some laser surgery in February and then need cataract surgery in both eyes as well.  I've been just listening to audio books as a result.

I did want to do a final 2022 recap of how my reading year went.

I read or listened to 141 books (LIST & LINKS HERE in 2022 but, you can see below that as my vision worsen my monthly reads declined as well.  

• Fiction - 116
• Non Fiction - 25
• Children's Books - 12
• Print Books (includes ARCS)(my shelves) - 35
• Print Books (library) 12
• eBooks/eGalleys (my shelves) - 28
• eBooks (library) - 2
• Audiobooks (my shelves) - 40
• Audiobooks (library) - 23
• Combo (read/listens) - 16
• Female Authors - 102
• Male Authors - 39
• Debuts - 19
• January Books Read - 14
• February Books Read - 12
• March Books Read - 18
• April Books Read - 15
• May Books Read - 14
• June Books Read - 16
• July Books Read - 14
• August Reads - 15
• September - 9
• October - 9
• November - 2
• December - 3

                           FAVORITE READS of 2022  (no particular order)

                               Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2023.