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2023
My Year in Books
28,896
pages read
Krutika Puranik
90
books read
Krutika Puranik
1 like
The Book of Indian Queens by Aleph Book Company
Shortest Book
120
pages
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Longest Book
656
pages
Average book length in 2023
321
pages
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Most Shelved
2,811,470
people also shelved
Fallen Butterfly by Anna Nicholas
Least Shelved
22
people also shelved
Krutika’s average rating for 2023
3.8
3.8
The Last Tiger by Ruskin Bond
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.62 average
She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai

Krutika’s first review of the year

liked it
3.5 maybe? This book was quite odd but I cannot overlook the cute elements either.
KRUTIKA’S 2023 BOOKS
She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
it was amazing
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Black River by Nilanjana Roy
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
Fallen Butterfly by Anna Nicholas
Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns
The Lock-Up by John Banville
The Book Of Desire by Meena Kandasamy
it was amazing
The Last Tiger by Ruskin Bond
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
Manjhi's Mayhem by Tanuj Solanki
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Never Never by Colleen Hoover
Taste by Stanley Tucci
In Your Blood I Run by Sonia Bhatnagar
Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren
What If You & Me by Roni Loren
If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
it was amazing
For You & No One Else by Roni Loren
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Grave Intentions by R.V. Raman
Patang by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair
The Book of Indian Queens by Aleph Book Company
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
it was amazing
Murder Under a Red Moon by Harini Nagendra
Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan
Lost to the World by Shahbaz Taseer
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
it was amazing
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign by Anuradha Sarma Pujari
Happy Place by Emily Henry
The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Here Falls the Shadow by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour
The Volunteer by Jack Fairweather
it was amazing
From Manjunath to Manjamma by Jogati Manjamma
The Witch In The Peepul Tree by Arefa Tehsin
A Murder on Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
NAKED a novel by Aditi Mediratta
The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
Praying Mantis by R.V. Raman
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
it was amazing
The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told by Arunava Sinha
The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella
The American Boyfriend by Ivy Ngeow
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Much Ado about Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin
The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
The Inmate by Freida McFadden
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
it was amazing
The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es
Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare
The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden
Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag
Mansions of the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
For Now, It Is Night by Hari Krishna Kaul
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
it was amazing
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
The Babysitter by Emma Curtis
The Girl Who Kept Falling in Love by Rheea Mukherjee
Three Holidays and a Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin
The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told by A.J. Thomas
The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Welcome to Paradise by Twinkle Khanna
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
it was amazing
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney
We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu

Krutika’s last review of the year

it was amazing
The last two weeks of 2023 was dedicated to reading books of my choice. One of them was Simu Liu’s memoir, We Were Dreamers. Now, I have watched only half of Shang Chi but even that left a lasting impression on me because of Simu’s performance. But after reading this incredibly sweet and inspiring memoir, I’m convinced that there’s nothing he cannot do.

Simu didn’t have an easy upbringing but he still thinks of his childhood years fondly. While h ...more
2023 Reading Challenge
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Krutika Puranik read 90 out of 100 books.
 
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