Hello my fellow travellers, I wanted to give everyone a quick rundown of all the books I read last year and hopefully it helps you to pick up a few. I did the A-Z book title challenge in 2023 (and failed 😉). On average I had a good reading year.

I have already listed my favourites of 2023 here if you want to check that out.

Below is the StoryGraph summary of my overall ratings for all the books I have read in 2023 and the individual rating for each in alphabetical order of the titles (ignoring the articles A, An, The).

(Based on my own observation, I realise I am very bad at giving 5 ⭐️. Even if I tremendously enjoy something, I still end up giving it a 4 or at max a 4.5 (that’s the highest I have given…ever!) and in the same manner I have never given a 1 ⭐️ either. 2 is the lowest ever. Let’s just say I seem to like and dislike in moderation. 💁🏾‍♀️)

Since I have not yet found a way to get the half or quarter star symbols in here I am going to use the trustworthy moon to cover the decimals. For example half moon 🌗 represents 0.5.

  • Babel – R.F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌘
  • The Celestial Kingdom Duology (Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Heart of the Sun Warrior) – Sue Lynn Tan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Dune Trilogy (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune) – Frank Herbert ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • The Folk of the Air Trilogy (The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, The Queen of Nothing) – Holly Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌗
  • The Gravity of Us (DNF*) – Phil Stamper
  • The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (DNF*) – Jonas Jonasson
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Just Like You – Nick Hornby ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Jade City  – Fonda Lee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Kafka On The Shore – Haruki Murakami ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Kings of Paradise (DNF*) – Richard Nell
  • The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart – Holly Ringland ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌗
  • A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen ⭐️⭐️🌗
  • The Odd Book of Baby Names – Anees Salim ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Piranesi – Susanna Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌘
  • Queen Of Dreams – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ⭐️⭐️🌗
  • Recursion – Blake Crouch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Red Queen Series (Red Queen, Glass Sword, King’s Cage) – Victoria Aveyard ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima – Stephen Walker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌗
  • Untold Night and Day – Bae Suah ⭐️⭐️🌗
  • Verity – Colleen Hoover ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • X – Sue Grafton ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌗
  • Zen – Shabnam Minwalla ⭐️⭐️⭐️🌖

* In defence of the three DNF (Did not finish) books, they weren’t bad in any sense. If I had picked them up at a different time or in a different state of mind I am certain I would have completed them (2 out of the 3 were extremely easy reads). I feel like I might have even enjoyed them. Regardless as it stands today they do not have any rating.