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2023
My Year in Books
9,987
pages read
Susan
33
books read
Susan
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Shortest Book
3
pages
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
Longest Book
464
pages
Average book length in 2023
302
pages
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Most Shelved
2,952,919
people also shelved
The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly by Katherine A. Sherbrooke
Least Shelved
1,267
people also shelved
Susan’s average rating for 2023
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.31 average
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

Susan’s first review of the year

it was amazing
What if everyone who is white turned brown suddenly, overnight? The novel reads almost like a parable, the storytelling drawn out, connected by stream-of-conscious thoughts of peril and privilege, of love and loss, of what we hope for ourselves and the people we love, how we see ourselves and each other. This would be such an excellent novel to kick off a discussion/book group. Because we follow only Anders and Oona, whose names alone exude white ...more
SUSAN’S 2023 BOOKS
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
it was amazing
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly by Katherine A. Sherbrooke
it was amazing
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
Monsters by Claire Dederer
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
it was amazing
Follow the Sun by Liz Locke
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
The Guest by Emma Cline
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
it was amazing
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
We Have Always Been Who We Are by Sofia T. Romero
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Susan’s last review of the year

it was amazing
TOM LAKE started so slowly for me, so achingly slowly that I wasn’t sure it was going to work for me. But then a friend started crying while reading it and I had to keep going. I’m so glad I did. What Ann Patchett does is she gets to the heart of the matter so elegantly. I love her writing, her way of storytelling. What a lovely novel.
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Susan read 33 out of 50 books.
 
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