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2023
My Year in Books
13,328
pages read
43
books read
S.


50 Letters of Emperor Aurangzeb by Amir Khan
Shortest Book
53
pages
Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki
Longest Book
2,128
pages

Average book length in 2023
309
pages

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Most Shelved
2,423,704
people also shelved
50 Letters of Emperor Aurangzeb by Amir Khan
Least Shelved
12
people also shelved

S.’s average rating for 2023
4.0
really liked it
4.0

Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.68 average

Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek

S.’s first review of the year

A very bleak slice-of-life story exploring patriarchy, queerness, sexual abuse, and class divides in modern day Syria.

.’S 2023 BOOKS
X 10 by Clamp
Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek
The Book Of Desire by Meena Kandasamy
it was amazing
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court by Pierre Gilliard
Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki
Akbar by Ira Mukhoty
Empress by Ruby Lal
Zafarnama by Guru Gobind Singh
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
50 Letters of Emperor Aurangzeb by Amir Khan
X 9 by Clamp
A Lifelong Passion by Sergei Mironenko
it was amazing
Dracula's Wars by James Waterson
The Country Without a Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
Abduction by Anouar Benmalek
Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You by Meena Kandasamy
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh by Shrayana Bhattacharya
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
it was amazing
Coffee Boy by Austin Chant
The Lost Arabs by Omar   Sakr
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov
The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Her Father's Daughter by Marie Sizun
Beloved by Toni Morrison
really liked it
The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg
The Emperor Who Never Was by Supriya Gandhi
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign by Anuradha Sarma Pujari
Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
X 11 by Clamp
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
The Devourers by Indra Das
really liked it
The colours of my heart by Faiz Ahmad Faiz
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos

Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos

S.’s last review of the year

A novel that laughs at you - and makes you laugh - even as it covers you in paper cuts. The style outweighs the plot, but this is an electric read nonetheless.
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