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2023
My Year in Books
15,297
pages read
48
books read


Stage Design by Kenneth Rowell
Shortest Book
96
pages
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Longest Book
624
pages

Average book length in 2023
318
pages

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Most Shelved
3,797,477
people also shelved
A Method of Lighting the Stage by Stanley R. McCandless
Least Shelved
0
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Anna’s average rating for 2023
3.7
3.7

A Method of Lighting the Stage by Stanley R. McCandless
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Anna’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Full disclosure: I've never heard of Jennette McCurdy as I'm too old to ever have seen iCarly and have no children who might have ever watched it. However, I'm a sucker for a celebrity memoir, especially if it involves dysfunction. And lord, do we get Dysfunction. What a humorous way to describe so many problems, and to know that she's come out the other side alive and functional. I did yell at the pages a few times: Narcissist, Jennette, she's a ...more

ANNA’S 2023 BOOKS
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
it was amazing
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Spare by Prince Harry
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Educated by Tara Westover
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
it was amazing
Stage Design by Kenneth Rowell
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A Method of Lighting the Stage by Stanley R. McCandless
Scenery for the Theatre by Harold Burris-Meyer
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
One's Company by Ashley Hutson
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Calypso by David Sedaris
it was amazing
Class by Paul Fussell
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Nala's World by Dean Nicholson
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  Perry
Son by Lois Lowry
Voluptuous Panic by Mel Gordon
it was amazing
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Safe and Sound by Mercury Stardust
it was amazing
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Shit, Actually by Lindy West
Shrill by Lindy West
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
How Can I Help You by Laura Sims
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
For Your Own Good by Samantha  Downing
really liked it
Ladies Who Punch by Ramin Setoodeh
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Anna’s last review of the year

liked it
The writing is very lyrical, and I struggled with the rating. I am NOT the intended audience for this novel. Whenever I read historical fiction, I think I will love it. But the deeper I get into such novels, the more disappointed I become. The history and SOME realities of the Soviet Union are very well presented here, but SUCH liberties are taken within the walls of the Metropol that NEVER would have happened in real life, it made it almost impo ...more
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