mellicious | Books of 2023 (Reply)

I usually read some Christmas-themed stuff around Christmas and I didn't, much, this year. I tried something called Merrily Every After but I couldn't really get into it and I started something else that seemed to be very religious and that's not my thing, so I didn't really get anywhere with new books. But this afternoon I started re-reading The Christmas Bookshop, which I read last year and really liked. (Maybe I should try some other books by that author.)

I believe I read 38 new books (new-to-me, that is, not necessarily newly published) in 2023, and then I'm a big re-reader, I re-read way more books than that. As I've already mentioned, I really love the October Daye books so the two books in that series published this fall were probably my favorite books of the year. I also read several books into the Temeraire series (love a good dragon book!) and my favorite stand-alone that I read this year was Station Eleven.

I think (I didn't go check) that everything I read that was new and book-length was fiction. Sometimes I do read nonfiction books, but everything I read like that this year was shorter-form.