Another year, another list of my favorite books! As a result of my tendency to hop about different genres, I don’t prefer the Top 5/Top 10 etc., style lists for myself. It’s too hard to have these books compete against one another when they’re so intrinsically different. Instead, I like breaking it down by genre and picking some of my favorites from each. These are not all books that were published in 2023, just ones I read during this year.
In 2023, I finished the year having read 179 books which equaled out to about 63,800 pages. Per usual, I read a lot of romance and fantasy but there was no shortage of other genres. I joined a classics book club this year and read some old and new favorites, which I’ll be continuing to participate in during 2024.
One thing I always like to reiterate with my end-of-year lists is that not all of these were “five star” reads on my ratings. Some of these are books that I enjoyed and loved throughout the year even if they had some flaws. They’re the ones that stuck with me after 179 books read. I stuck each book into the genre that I most identified them with, but many of the books are genre-blending.
Alternatively, there’s books that were 5 stars for me that didn’t make this list. I read a lot this year! There were many books I really enjoyed that aren’t on this list.
I hope you find some inspiration for your next read in this list!
Thrillers/Mysteries
•The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer
•Sign here by Claudia Lux
•Confessions by Kanae Minato
•Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering
•Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
Romance/Romantic Comedies
•Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
•Snowed In by Catherine Walsh
•Every Summer After/Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
•Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
•The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
•Love You, Mean It by Jilly Gagnon
Romantic Fantasy
•The Foxglove King by Hannah F. Whitten
•Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
•One for my Enemy by Olivie Blake
•Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
•Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
•A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Fantasy/Magical Realism
•The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
•The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry
•The Mountain of Souls by Marcus Lee
•The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
•The Severing Son by Vaughn Roycroft
•Combat Codes by Alexander Darwin
Historical Fantasy/Mythology
•The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec
•Clytemnestra by Constanza Casati
•Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren J.A. Bear
Historical Fiction
•Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
•The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
•Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
•Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
Contemporary/Literary Fiction
•Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
•Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
•Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
Horror
•Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Science Fiction/Dystopian Fiction
•In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
•Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin
•One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie
Nonfiction/Memoirs
•Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
•Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angelas by Kate Flannery
•Who’s Your Founding Father? One Man’s Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence by David Fleming
•Spare by Prince Harry
•Tell Me Everything by Minka Kelly
Classics
•Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
•The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Graphic Novel
•The Glass Scientists: Volume One by S.H. Cotugno
And that’s a wrap on the 2023 season of books! As always, you can find my reviews on FanFiAddict.com, check out my bookish musings on Twitter (@sassideeee), or see my reviews on my book IG (cassidee.omnilegent). I didn’t do full reviews as much as I wanted this past year but I’m hoping to do more in 2024. Have a great year and read some amazing books!
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