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2023
My Year in Books
11,364
pages read
Anna
48
books read
Anna
The Administration of Fear by Paul Virilio
Shortest Book
93
pages
Skagboys by Irvine Welsh
Longest Book
548
pages
Average book length in 2023
236
pages
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Most Shelved
11,301,688
people also shelved
Radical Empiricists by Helen Thaventhiran
Least Shelved
5
people also shelved
Anna’s average rating for 2023
3.4
3.4
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.56 average
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

Anna’s first review of the year

liked it
While I really loved some of these stories, combining these two collections into one might not have been the way to go for me. As I properly got into the second half, I found everything increasingly same-y.
ANNA’S 2023 BOOKS
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Skagboys by Irvine Welsh
really liked it
Foe by Iain Reid
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Comemadre by Roque Larraquy
When Physics Became King by Iwan Rhys Morus
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
The Fisherman by John Langan
Girls Against God by Jenny Hval
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
really liked it
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
The Administration of Fear by Paul Virilio
Below the Edge of Darkness by Edith Widder
Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner
The Dumb House by John Burnside
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
Posthuman Knowledge by Rosi Braidotti
it was amazing
The Vessel by Adam Nevill
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
Lanny by Max Porter
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
The Whistling by Rebecca Netley
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde by Rachel Fountain Eames
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
it was amazing
Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill
Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
Radical Empiricists by Helen Thaventhiran
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
it was amazing
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper
Thin Air by Michelle Paver
liked it
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Ritual by Adam Nevill

Anna’s last review of the year

liked it
This was really creepy! I didn't feel as enthusiastic about the second part, but the first part was really good and near the ending it picked up again as well. Would recommend! ...more
2023 Reading Challenge
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Anna read 48 out of 100 books.
48%
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