Books Read in 2023

Saturday, January 7, 2023

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 - 37
• 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

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9. We Should Not Be Friends; Will Schwalbe - abandoned at 27% wasn't holding my interest (May)

1. The Book of Goose; Yiyun Li - audio abandoned at about 30% - couldn't connect with story (May)