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2023
My Year in Books
75,083
pages read
263
books read


Fallen by Ruby Moone
Shortest Book
42
pages
Riders by Jilly Cooper
Longest Book
919
pages

Average book length in 2023
285
pages

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly  Jackson
Most Shelved
3,293,681
people also shelved
Narrative Medicine in Veterinary Practice by Karen Fine
Least Shelved
19
people also shelved

Trin’s average rating for 2023
2.9
2.9

The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion by Matt Whyman
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.61 average

Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard

Trin’s first review of the year

did not like it
This is pacey, and that's the best thing I can say about it.

No one in this book behaves like a human being. Adam, the protagonist searching for his missing girlfriend, is astonishingly thickheaded one second, and jumps to just the right conclusion the next. (For example: he sees that his girlfriend's airplane boarding pass was for the middle seat, and goes: gasp! Then she must have been with someone, because who would pick a middle seat without a
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ո’S 2023 BOOKS
Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson
Shanghailanders by Juli Min
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott
it was amazing
Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard
Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas
Fallen by Ruby Moone
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Miracle Creek by Angie  Kim
Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore
Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo
really liked it
Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
The New Wife by J.P. Delaney
The Number Ones by Tom Breihan
Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Spy x Family, Vol. 2 by Tatsuya Endo
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
You're Saying It Wrong by Ross Petras
Sailor's Delight by Rose Lerner
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Make a Scene by Mimi   Grace
Disability Intimacy by Alice  Wong
it was amazing
Foul Matter by Martha Grimes
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Plastic by Scott Guild
it was amazing
The Storm is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
A Lady's Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Another Dimension of Us by Mike Albo
Cursed Objects by J.W. Ocker
The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill
In Every Generation by Kendare Blake
Lighthouse Horrors by Charles G. Waugh
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
One of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus
Sea Change by Gina Chung
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter
Remainders of the Day by Shaun Bythell
Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
The Rivals by Jane Pek
it was amazing
William by Mason Coile
Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny by Mark Cecil
Fair Play by Louise Hegarty
The Ghost Club by Kate Winkler Dawson
Moving On by Larry McMurtry
liked it
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey
Nightwork by Joseph Hansen
French Milk by Lucy Knisley
Dungeons & Dragons by Jaleigh Johnson
Early Graves by Joseph Hansen
The Stand-In by Lily Chu
The Binding by Bridget Collins
Masters in This Hall by K.J. Charles
A Walk Through Paris by Eric Hazan
Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray
it was amazing
A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong
Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” by Aubrey Gordon
really liked it
My Life in France by Julia Child
Skinflick by Joseph Hansen
The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles
A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm
Great Unsolved Crimes by Louis  Solomon
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Homerooms and Hall Passes by Tom  O'Donnell
really liked it
The Garden by Nick Newman
Acsquidentally in Love by K.L. Hiers
Spellbound by Allie Therin
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Narrative Medicine in Veterinary Practice by Karen Fine
Steps Going Down by Joseph Hansen
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
A Gentleman's Gentleman by T.J.   Alexander
it was amazing
Tilt by Emma Pattee
Southern Mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Nothing More Than Murder by Jim Thompson
Passing for Human by Jody Scott
Seducing an Angel by Mary Balogh
A Thread of Violence by Mark    O'Connell
The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider
Washington Square by Henry James
liked it
The Man Everybody Was Afraid of by Joseph Hansen
Doctor Who by Ben Aaronovitch
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

The Nameless City by Michael Scott

Trin’s last review of the year

liked it
The Second Doctor meets...Lovecraft?! It's fine, not quite as visceral or visual or full of dread as I would have liked (these being the best aspects of Lovecraftian work) but then ending/means of baddie-defeating is very funny, even if the confusion itself is a bit abrupt. ...more
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