The Most Read Books of the 2024 Reading Challenge (So Far)
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2023
My Year in Books
17,015
pages read
Chris
48
books read
Chris
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Shortest Book
149
pages
Without Warning by Terry C. Pierce
Longest Book
762
pages
Average book length in 2023
354
pages
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Most Shelved
4,015,370
people also shelved
The Vermont Brigade In The Shenandoah Valley by Aldace Freeman Walker
Least Shelved
17
people also shelved
Chris’s average rating for 2023
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
The Vermont Brigade In The Shenandoah Valley by Aldace Freeman Walker
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

Chris’s first review of the year

it was amazing
I loved this book: haunting, funny, astute (SO damn astute). It has some of the wildest and most wrenching characters I met between hard covers the last year. As a novelist, I was awed; as a reader, I was grateful. And Blandine? Blandine? We all need Blandine tee shirts!
CHRIS’S 2023 BOOKS
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
it was amazing
The Woods by Janice Obuchowski
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Vanishing Maps by Cristina García
Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
Civil War Medicine by Alfred Jay Bollet
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
it was amazing
Wilderness by Robert Penn Warren
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge by Helen Ellis
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Wager by David Grann
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel by Douglas Brunt
The Vermont Brigade In The Shenandoah Valley by Aldace Freeman Walker
it was amazing
Life B by Bethanne Patrick
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
it was amazing
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott
The Good Ones by Polly Stewart
The Guest by Emma Cline
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
Such Kindness by Andre Dubus III
The Underworld by Susan Casey
My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
Monsters by Claire Dederer
it was amazing
D-Day by Antony Beevor
Without Warning by Terry C. Pierce
Wellness by Nathan Hill
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Absolution by Alice McDermott
Red, White, Blue by Lea Carpenter
Day by Michael Cunningham
it was amazing
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
Only She Came Back by Margot Harrison
Only She Came Back by Margot Harrison

Chris’s last review of the year

it was amazing
It seems 2023 was the year when all those podcasts about murders became the subjects themselves of terrific books and TV series: Rebecca Makkai's I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS for you and the streaming series, ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and BASED ON A TRUE STORY immediately come to mind. Add to that list Margot Harrison's riveting, smart, and insightful new novel, ONLY SHE CAME BACK. A teenage girl in Vermont, who's an aspiring podcaster, sees an oppor ...more
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