📚Fave Reads of 2023📚

While I was doing a whole lot of NOT WRITING last year, I filled my time with A TON of reading. I exceeded my goal of reading 100 books, with my total count for the year hitting 110.

Here are some of my absolute fave reads from 2023, broken down by genre. I hope they bring you as much joy/ interest/ escape as they brought me last year :)

Top 10-ish Reads of 2023:

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

• I'll Show Myself Out by Jessi Klein

• Book Lovers by Emily Henry

• One Dark Window & Two Twisted Crowns (duology) by Rachel Gilliam

• Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom (duology) by Leigh Bardugo

• For the Wolf & For the Throne (duology) by Hannah Whitten

• If We Were Villains by ML Rio

• Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center

• Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young

• Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

(Read a more in-depth review of those top reads here.)

Plus, there were all of these great reads...

🔮 Fantasy Fiction

• All the Stars and Teeth & All the Tides of Fate (duology) by Adalyn Grace

• The Serpent and the Wings of Night & The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King (duology) by Carissa Broadbent

• Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (I also recommend the Netflix show version! They did a great job)

• King of Scars & Rule of Wolves (duology) by Leigh Bardugo

• Book of Azrael & The Throne of Broken Gods (duology) by Amber Nicole

• Circe by Madeline Miller

• The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

💖 Romance/ Contemporary Fiction

• Untying the Knot by Meghan Quinn

• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

• Him & Us (duology) by Elle Kennedy & Sarina Bowen

• Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey Mcquiston

• The Summer Girl by Elle Kennedy

• Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy Score

• Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score

• Summer of Broken Rules by KL Walther

• Forever Never by Lucy Score

• The Graham Effect by Elle Kennedy

• The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

• Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

🤓 Nonfiction

• You, Happier by Daniel Amen

• Good Enough by Kate Bowlder

• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy

• The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

• Everything is F*cked by Mark Manson

• Ask Me About My Divorce by Candace Walsh

• Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

•  Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz

• Poe For Your Problems by Catherine Baab-Muguira

If you want to hear more about my top 10 book recommendations of 2023, you can read this blog post.