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2023
My Year in Books
22,260
pages read
Mizannie
85
books read
Mizannie
Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi
Shortest Book
28
pages
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Longest Book
830
pages
Average book length in 2023
261
pages
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Most Shelved
6,049,966
people also shelved
Vivaldi for Breakfast by Albert, John-Michael
Least Shelved
1
people also shelved
Mizannie’s average rating for 2023
4.1
4.1
The Milky Way by Gunnel Larsdotter
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith

Mizannie’s first review of the year

really liked it
Imaginative and suspenseful. Much food for thought here about colonialism; (view spoiler) ...more
MIZANNIE’S 2023 BOOKS
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
it was amazing
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories by Ann Beattie
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Milky Way by Gunnel Larsdotter
it was amazing
In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo
Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Bunny by Mona Awad
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
An Immense World by Ed Yong
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
it was amazing
Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Gringos by Charles Portis
The Transcendent Brain by Alan Lightman
Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffman
Norwood by Charles Portis
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Mother Sun by Sui Annukka
The Cryptid Catcher by Lija Fisher
it was amazing
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Void by Veronica Roth
Euphoria by Lily King
Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi
The Long Game by Ann Leckie
Falling Bodies by Rebecca Roanhorse
How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey
Just Out of Jupiter's Reach by Nnedi Okorafor
The 100 Year Miracle by Ashley Ream
Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
it was amazing
The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
Still Life by Louise Penny
Wool by Hugh Howey
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
My Girl by Patricia Hermes
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
it was amazing
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
it was amazing
Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
I May Be Wrong by Björn Natthiko Lindeblad
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
Memoirs and Misinformation by Jim Carrey
Counting Sheep by Axel Lindén
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
it was amazing
Vivaldi for Breakfast by Albert, John-Michael
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron
The House on the Water by Margot Hunt
System Collapse by Martha Wells
On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane
Stockholm by Catherine Steadman
Bedding Vows by Patricia Ranzoni
it was amazing
Liberation Day by George Saunders
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
Foster by Claire Keegan
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Last to See Me by M. Dressler
Claiming by Patricia Ranzoni
The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
it was amazing
Shift by Hugh Howey
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis

Mizannie’s last review of the year

it was amazing
“Charles Portis could be Cormac McCarthy if he wanted to, but he’d rather be funny.” ~ Roy Blount, Jr.

Although Portis lived to be 86 years old, I am still sad that he only had time to write five novels. Portis served in the Marines in the Korean war, returned to study journalism at the University of Arkansas and worked as a reporter for years before turning to fiction full time. He was working as London correspondent for the Herald Tribune - whic ...more
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Mizannie read 85 out of 72 books.
 
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