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2023
My Year in Books
8,890
pages read
28
books read


Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Shortest Book
128
pages
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Longest Book
530
pages

Average book length in 2023
317
pages

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Most Shelved
5,995,161
people also shelved
Cataloguing Culture by Hannah Turner
Least Shelved
244
people also shelved

Meghan’s average rating for 2023
4.1
4.1

Devotions by Mary Oliver
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.58 average

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Meghan’s first review of the year

really liked it
this was epic. i've never read anything like it. overall i liked the honesty and the world building was insane. i guess i took off a star bc the narrator is so unlikeable, specifically his comments on women. i also thought the ending was pretty unsatisfying

quotations:

(re: unlikable narrator) "Chubby girls in pink tend to conjure up images of big strawberry shortcakes waltzing on a dance floor"

"Thinking about time was torment. Time is too concept
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²Ñ·¡³Ò±á´¡±·â€™S 2023 BOOKS
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
it was amazing
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Girls by Emma Cline
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Over My Dead Body by Greg Melville
it was amazing
All About Love by bell hooks
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Devotions by Mary Oliver
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Paris by Paris Hilton
How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna
Upstream by Mary Oliver
it was amazing
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Jane by Maggie Nelson
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Rouge by Mona Awad
Cataloguing Culture by Hannah Turner
Maurice by E.M. Forster
liked it

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Meghan’s last review of the year

liked it
i guess i can appreciate this for what it was (1910s queer romance), but it was a snoozer! i think i just am not interested in books without women...

quotes:

"Something of exquisite beauty arose in the mind of each at last, something unforgettable and eternal, but built on the humblest scraps of speech and from the simplest emotions."

"We were young idiots, weren't we? -but one can get something even out of idiocy. Development. No, more than that, i
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