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2023
My Year in Books
35,234
pages read
Lark Benobi
125
books read
Lark Benobi
1 like
He Took His Skin Off For Me by Maria Hummer
Shortest Book
1
page
The Iliad by Homer
Longest Book
848
pages
Average book length in 2023
281
pages
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Most Shelved
2,126,594
people also shelved
The Collector's What Not by Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot
Least Shelved
3
people also shelved
Lark’s average rating for 2023
4.3
4.3
The Collector's What Not by Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Lark’s first review of the year

liked it
I've read this novel twice, as a print book as well as listening to the audiobook. The narrator is fantastic for this story. I have huge respect for the Alison Rumfitt for writing this novel and for the way she mixes the contemporary historical real horror of everyday life with the tropes of genre horror. It's a unique and tricky mix of personal and political and horror story and I can't say it always worked for me. Sometimes the story felt last ...more
LARK’S 2023 BOOKS
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
The Blunder by Mutt-Lon
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
it was amazing
THE JUNIPER TREE and Other Tales from Grimm by Lore Segal & Maurice Sendak...
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
The Paradise of Food by Khalid Jawed
Two Sherpas by Sebastián Martínez Daniell
Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
Aquarium by David Vann
Hell Unearthed by Hilary McElwaine
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc
it was amazing
The Applicant by Nazli Koca
Book of Hours by Letty McHugh
Reproduction by Louisa Hall
How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna
Agapē Agape by William Gaddis
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger
it was amazing
The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Itō
Hestia Strikes a Match by Christine Grillo
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Commitment by Mona Simpson
Dog on Fire by Terese Svoboda
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Fowl Eulogies by Lucie Rico
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Life #6 by Diana Wagman
it was amazing
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Mrs. S by K. Patrick
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Who Owns the Clouds? by Mario Brassard
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
Lost Places by Sarah Pinsker
The Great Man Theory by Teddy Wayne
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai
it was amazing
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Innards by Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
The Collector's What Not by Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot
it was amazing
August Blue by Deborah Levy
The Wager by David Grann
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
Trial by Richard North Patterson
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Rouge by Mona Awad
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
Day by Michael Cunningham
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
it was amazing
Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary
Things I Didn't Throw Out by Marcin Wicha
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Hangman by Maya Binyam
Born in Blood and Fire by John Charles Chasteen
Mephisto by Klaus Mann
it was amazing
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Naked Woman by Armonía Somers
The Mystery of the Ivory Charm by Carolyn Keene
The Box by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
The Golden Pot by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
The Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
it was amazing
James by Percival Everett
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
Grimmish by Michael Winkler
Touched by Walter Mosley
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Pole by J.M. Coetzee
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Neon Nevada by Sheila Swan
it was amazing
Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin
The Women by Kristin Hannah
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Beowulf by Unknown
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
it was amazing
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
All Fours by Miranda July
Peach by Emma Glass
And the Stones Cry Out by Clara Dupont-Monod
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
The Iliad by Homer
The Dolls' House by Rumer Godden
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie
Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Shua Dusapin

Lark’s last review of the year

liked it
Winter in Sokcho entranced me. The Pachinko Parlor felt a little random and a little strained by comparison.
2023 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Lark Benobi read 125 out of 52 books.
 
240%
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