I cannot believe we are here again! A whole year has passed. I have so many weird emotions about the new year. Excited for the year ahead but also FREAKING OUT BECAUSE TIME IS WEIRD! I say this every year but I do truly feel that this is the last time I can say this – this was the best reading year of my life! I genuinely don’t think I could repeat this next year. For this wrap up, I will be using stats taken from both the Goodreads Wrap Up and some reading spreadsheets I have collated from Ali from Hardback Hoarder.
Basic Stats
- I read 45, 679 pages
- I read 168 books (177 if you include DNFs)
- I DNFed 11 books (some of them I counted towards my overall goal because I read a lot of it before DNFing)
- My average book length was 256
- My average book rating was 3.8
- I read 27% of my physical TBR
The shortest book I read in 2022 – 16 pages
I read this on Tor.com and it was a bit underwhelming.
The longest book I read in 2022 – 688 pages
I really enjoyed this book and I also was able to meet the author and get a copy signed!
The most popular book I read in 2023.
This was shelved by over 2.2 million people on Goodreads. I truly get the hype with this book. We read it for book club and everyone loved it!
The least popular book I read in 2023.
This was shelved by 15 people on Goodreads. I read this book for the British Fantasy awards and I really enjoyed it!
The book I read with the highest rating on Goodreads.
This had a 4.86 average. Another book I read for the British Fantasy Awards – this book ended up being the winner!
Rating Breakdown
So as per usual here is a breakdown of all the books I read this year and where they fall in the star category. I have also included links to my reviews if you wanted to read them!
Loads of people talk about how they rarely give out 5 stars. only reserved for the best of the best… I was giving out 5 stars left, right and centre in 2023. You get a 5 star and YOU GET A 5 STAR! A quarter of what I read this year got 5 stars.. oop.
DNFS
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Scarlet | Genevieve Cogman |
| The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab |
| This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone |
| Final Acts | Martin Edwards |
| Elantris | Brandon Sanderson |
| Howl’s Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones |
| Hooky | Miriam Bonastre Tur |
| Lemon | Kwon Seo-Yun |
| Love in Focus | Yoko Nogiri |
| Sword Catcher | Cassandra Clare |
1 STAR
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Candescent Blooms | Andrew Hook |
| Mystery in White | J. Jefferson Farjeon |
2 – 2.5 STARS
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Fruiting Bodies | Kemi Ashing-Giwa |
| This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nocean | Efa |
| Leo in Little Pieces | Mayana Itoiz |
| Soggy Landing | Alec McGovern |
| Termush | Sven Holm |
| Mountains Made of Glass | Scarlett St. Clair |
| Black Coffee | Agatha Christie |
| Every Exquisite Thing | Laura Steven |
| Night Train to the Stars | Kenji Miyazawa |
| Tokyo Express | Seicho Matsumoto |
| The Mimicking of Known Successes | Malka Ann Older |
| Always Take Notes | Simon Adam & Rachel Lloyd |
3 – 3.5 STARS
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Legends and Lattes | Travis Baldree |
| The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women | Amy Licence |
| My Killer Vacation | Tessa Bailey |
| Wotakoi: Love is Hard for an Otaku | Fujita |
| Promise Boys | Nick Brooks |
| Red Dust, White Snow | Pan Huiting |
| The Strange | Nathan Ballingrud |
| Claymore, Vol.1 | Norihiro Yagi |
| The Mill House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji |
| Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Vol.5 | Kanehtio Yamada |
| The Case from the Lighthouse Intruder | Kereen Getten |
| The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche |
| Uncle Paul | Celia Fremlin |
| The Tea Dragon Society | Kay O’Neill |
| Death on Gokuman Island | Seishi Yokomizo |
| Beast in the Shadows | Edogawa Rampo |
| The Wind Child | Gabriela Houston |
| Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
| FMA: The Land of Sand | Hiromu Arakawa |
| The Last Conversation | Paul Tremblay |
| The Skeleton Key | Erin Kelly |
| The Heroic Legend of Arslan #1 | Hiromu Arakawa |
| Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops | Shaun Bythell |
| Haikyu!! Vol. 4 | Haruichi Furudate |
| Vox Machina #1 | Matt Mercer |
| I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki | Baek Sehee |
| The Last Tale of the Flower Bride | Roshani Chokshi |
| Whose Body? | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| At Midnight | Various Authors |
| Twin Crowns | Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber |
| A Passing on of Shells | Simon Lamb |
| The Wonderful Stag, or the Courtship of Red Elsie | Kathleen Jennings |
| The Cloisters | Katy Hays |
| The Long Game | Elena Armas |
| The Kamogawa Food Detectives | Hisashi Kashiwai |
| Nana, Vol.1 | Ai Yazawa |
| Rabbit Hole | Kate Brody |
| The Christmas Appeal | Janice Hallett |
4 – 4.5 STARS
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Promised Neverland, Vol. 7, 10, 12-14, 20 | Kaiu Shirai |
| Snow White with the Red Hair, Vol. 1 | Sorata Akiduki |
| TLOZ: Twilight Princess, Vol. 2 | Akira Himekawa |
| Drifting Dragons, Vol. 1 | Taku Kuwabara |
| Children of the Whales, Vol. 1 | Abi Umeda |
| The Book of Eve | Meg Clothier |
| The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books | Martin Edwards |
| Knee Deep: Book 1 | Joe Flood |
| Blood in the Thread | Cheri Kamei |
| Usotoki Rhetoric, Vol. 1 | Miyako Ritsu |
| Murder in Mesopotamia | Agatha Christie |
| The Girl from the Other Side, Vol. 2 | Nagabe |
| The Trial of Lotta Rae | Siobhan MacGowan |
| The Ashes of London | Andrew Taylor |
| Fierce | Mathieu Burinat |
| Moriarty the Patriot, Vol.2 | Ryosuke Takeuchi |
| Yona of the Dawn, Vol.1 | Mizuho Kusanagi |
| A Magic Steeped in Poison | Judy I. Lin |
| Lies We Sing to the Sea | Sarah Underwood |
| The Burning God | R.F. Kuang |
| Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol.1 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Gwen and Art are Not in Love | Lex Croucher |
| A Wizard from Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Onyeka and the Rise of the Rebels | Tola Okogwu |
| The Six Deaths of the Saint | Alix E. Harrow |
| Ember Shadows and the Fates of Mount Never | Rebecca King |
| Cards on the Table | Agatha Christie |
| The Hunters Guild: Red Hood, Vol.1 | Yuki Kawaguchi |
| Herc | Phoenicia Rogerson |
| Blue Exorcist, Vol.2 | Kazue Kato |
| Thornhedge | T. Kingfisher |
| Masters of Death | Olivie Blake |
| Vern, Custodian of the Universe | Tyrell Waters |
| Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies | Heather Fawcett |
| The List | Yomi Adegoke |
| Peril on the Atlantic | A.M. Howell |
| Behind a Broken Smile | Penny Jones |
| She and Her Cat | Makoto Shinkai |
| All Systems Red | Martha Wells |
| A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers |
| Under the Moon | E.M. Faulds |
| I’m Not Your Final Girl | Claire C. Holland |
| Breakable Things | Cassandra Khaw |
| Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials | Marion Gibson |
| Garlic and the Witch | Bree Paulsen |
| Normal Women | Phillippa Greogry |
| Witch Hat Aterlia, Vol. 2 | Kamome Shirahama |
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Shirley Jackson |
| I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me | Jamison Shea |
| Donut Feed the Squirrels | Mika Song |
| Imelda and the Goblin King | Briony May Smith |
| Beyond the Story | BTS |
| Moonflight | Gill Lewis |
| This Thread of Gold | Catherine Joy White |
| The Christmas Swap | Talia Samuels |
| ATLA: The Search | Gene Luen Yang |
| Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night | Sophie Hannah |
| The City of Stardust | Georgia Summers |
| Sweat and Soap, Vol. 1 | Kintetsu Yamada |
| Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower | Tamsyn Muir |
| Their Vicious Games | Joelle Wellington |
| Impossible Creatures | Katherine Rundell |
5 STARS
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Legendborn | Tracy Deonn |
| The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels | Janice Hallett |
| The Faraway Paladin, Vol. 1 | Kanata Yanagino |
| Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo |
| The Promised Neverland, Vol. 8-11, 15-19 | Kaiu Shirai |
| Godkiller | Hannah Kaner |
| Inuyasha, Vol.1 | Rumiko Takahashi |
| The Mountain in the Sea | Ray Nayler |
| Speak of the Devil | Rose Wilding |
| Spy X Family, Vol.1 | Tatsuya Endo |
| Juniper Mae: Knight of Tykotech City | Sarah Soh |
| Yellowface | Rebecca Kuang |
| Trust | Hernan Diaz |
| Hilda: The Wilderness Stories + 2 more | Luke Pearson |
| Luna and the Treasure of Tlaloc | Joe Todd-Stanton |
| The Gilded Wolves | Roshani Chokshi |
| Every Heart a Doorway | Seanan McGuire |
| Sailor Moon, Vol.2 | Naoko Takeuchi |
| A Fortunate Woman | Polly Morland |
| You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight | Kalynn Bayron |
| In a Lonely Place | Dorothy B. Hughes |
| Emergency Skin | N.K. Jemisin |
| A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder | Holly Jackson |
| Divine Might & Pandora’s Jar | Natalie Haynes |
| Witch Hat Aterlia, Vol. 1 | Kamome Shirahama |
| The Witchstone Ghosts | Emily Randall-Jones |
| The Hexologists | Josiah Bancroft |
| The Girl from the Other Side, Vol. 3 | Nagabe |
| Curious Tides | Pascale Lacelle |
| Starling House | Alix E. Harrow |
| Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop | Hwang Bo-Reum |
| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir |
| Realms of the Imagination | Various Authors |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
Format Breakdown!
- Physical – 131
- eBook – 42
- Audio – 4
I will be honest I did part audiobook and part read some books like Starling House for example. I just completely forgot about the option on my spreadsheet hahaha.
Genre Breakdown!
Again, shocker to no-one that fantasy is my most read genre for 2023. I read 75 fantasy books which came to 42% of my genres.
Age Breakdown!
- Adult – 96
- New Adult – 2
- Young Adult – 59
- Middle Grade – 14
- Childrens – 6
I still haven’t figured out exactly what constitutes as new adult so take those 2 books with a pinch of salt.
Source Breakdown!
- Bought – 53
- NetGalley – 17
- Publisher – 66
- Borrowed – 17
- Library – 11
- Kindle Unlimited – 8
- Gifted – 3
The fact that my purchased and publisher sent books are basically equal is so crazy to me!!!
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