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2023
My Year in Books
39,382
pages read
Whitney
123
books read
Whitney
Festival by Christopher Golden
Shortest Book
72
pages
The Fragile Threads of Power by Victoria Schwab
Longest Book
648
pages
Average book length in 2023
320
pages
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Most Shelved
1,498,770
people also shelved
Sing Our Bones Eternal by Kacey Rayburn
Least Shelved
324
people also shelved
Whitney’s average rating for 2023
3.9
3.9
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.48 average
Rose/House by Arkady Martine

Whitney’s first review of the year

really liked it
I get this feeling, sometimes, when reading works by Tamsyn Muir: a slow spiralling panic of realization where after gliding over several dense sentences, my brain cries: "Oh crap, we're not smart enough for this".

This novella by Arkady Martine produced this exact reaction. I haven't yet read other work by Martine - this one's my maiden voyage - but I'm eager to do so after "Rose/House", a strange, dreamy, hallucinogenic tale that borrows equall ...more
WHITNEY’S 2023 BOOKS
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
it was amazing
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson
Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown
Witch King by Martha Wells
Road of Bones by Christopher Golden
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
it was amazing
The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst
The Vessel by Adam Nevill
The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
The Devil's Music by Nathan Page
The Faithless by C.L. Clark
It Came from the Closet by Joe Vallese
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older
really liked it
Sing Our Bones Eternal by Kacey Rayburn
Stalking Shakespeare by Lee Durkee
Affinity by Sarah Waters
Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo
Every Gift a Curse by Caroline O'Donoghue
Northranger by Rey Terciero
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
it was amazing
City of Vicious Night by Claire Winn
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
La Petite Mort by Olivie Blake
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
Thin Air by Michelle Paver
The Spite House by Johnny Compton
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Horton Booth
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
it was amazing
Festival by Christopher Golden
Never Trust a Gemini by Freja Nicole Woolf
Cultish by Amanda Montell
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Solomon's Crown by Natasha Siegel
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
The Beast You Are by Paul Tremblay
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
it was amazing
Unlikeable Female Characters by Anna Bogutskaya
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin
He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney
Behold the Monster by Jillian Lauren
The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan
The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
it was amazing
New Adult by Timothy Janovsky
Fuzz by Mary Roach
Rouge by Mona Awad
it was amazing
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman
Night's Edge by Liz Kerin
Uncommon Charm by Emily Bergslien
A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
System Collapse by Martha Wells
it was amazing
Night of the Witch by Sara Raasch
Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll
Let Him In by William Friend
The Fragile Threads of Power by Victoria Schwab
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
really liked it
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley
In These Hallowed Halls by Marie O'Regan
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake
Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling
In the Roses of Pieria by Anna Burke
The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
it was amazing
A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
Hunted by Darcy Coates
The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O'Meara
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins

Whitney’s last review of the year

really liked it
I love shipwrecks: their mystery, their abruptly-destroyed journeys, and what they say about the culture that sent them, and the culture that would receive them. "A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks" attempts to distill the history of human communication and transportation into a smattering of maritime disasters, and on the whole it's an engaging, successful and interesting book. From ancient Turkey to the frigid waters of the Arctic, Gib ...more
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