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2023
My Year in Books
14,145
pages read
Poulami
50
books read
Poulami
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
Shortest Book
118
pages
Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters
Longest Book
541
pages
Average book length in 2023
282
pages
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Most Shelved
2,580,600
people also shelved
বিশ্বাসঘাতক by Narayan Sanyal
Least Shelved
44
people also shelved
Poulami’s average rating for 2023
3.1
3.1
বিশ্বাসঘাতক by Narayan Sanyal
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.76 average
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

Poulami’s first review of the year

it was ok
This book is for fans of the romance genre, not for fans of the sci-fi genre. Even at just 150 pages it became a bit of a TLDR to me.
ʰѱ’S 2023 BOOKS
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
it was amazing
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
The Maid by Nita Prose
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Doab Dil by Sarnath Banerjee
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Batman Who Laughs by Scott Snyder
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
Soft Animal by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
The New Me by Halle Butler
really liked it
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
Anon Pls. by DeuxMoi
The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
it was amazing
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Luster by Raven Leilani
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
it was amazing
My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura
Jillian by Halle Butler
In the Woods by Tana French
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada
really liked it
Severance by Ling Ma
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
The Zamindar's Ghost by Khayaal Patel
The Day I Lost You by Alex Sinclair
Murder in the Crooked House by Sōji Shimada
Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters
A Killer's Mind by Mike Omer
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
বিশ্বাসঘাতক by Narayan Sanyal
it was amazing
The Zamindar's Ghost by Khayaal Patel

Poulami’s last review of the year

did not like it
Such terrible writing, it made my head hurt. Nobody laughs in this book, they just "chuckle". When a primary character dies suddenly no one is even remotely shocked or bothered. All the men keep making passes at a retired teacher who would be at least in her 60s. Oh and apparently women with "voluptuous" bodies are somehow all bad in character. I don't know how people are praising this piece of trash. Probably all friends of the writer or just pe ...more
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