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2023
My Year in Books
61,453
pages read
Literary Redhead
201
books read
Literary Redhead
Book Club Kit by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shortest Book
14
pages
Buzz Books 2023 by Publishers Lunch
Longest Book
1,250
pages
Average book length in 2023
305
pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Shelved
7,982,944
people also shelved
The Ultimate Pickleball Journal by Sydney Steinaker
Least Shelved
3
people also shelved
Literary’s average rating for 2023
4.8
4.8
Smoke to See By by Ben Moyer
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Literary’s first review of the year

really liked it
Greeta lost her husband 5 years when he ran out on her. Everyone in her village in India thinks she murdered him. While the assumption raises her clout, she thinks everyone despises her, until one by one oppressed village women ask her help to "manage" their own abusive spouses.

A slow build at first, the story really gets cranking, with dark humor leavening what could otherwise be a totally dark tale. And you realize: This is unlike any book you ...more
LITERARY’S 2023 BOOKS
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre by Natasha Lester
it was amazing
A Courage Undimmed by Stephanie Graves
The Book Spy by Alan Hlad
Unabashed Women by Marlene Wagman-Geller
The Watchmaker's Daughter by Larry Loftis
The Castle Keepers by Aimie K. Runyan
Final Draft by Shelley Burbank
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
Goodnight from Paris by Jane Healey
it was amazing
Lost in Paris by Betty Webb
A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn
Return to Satterthwaite Court by Mimi Matthews
Oxford Star by Laura Bradbury
A Frame of Time by Tina Griffith
Just Beachy by Kate Angell
Those Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton
The Renaissance Sisters by Wendy Cohan
it was amazing
Smoke to See By by Ben Moyer
The Unforgettable Alexandra Shaw by A. Lloyd Spanton
The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner
Murder in Postscript by Mary Winters
When Tomorrow Came by Hannah Linder
Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas
Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa
To Swoon and to Spar by Martha Waters
it was amazing
Jasmine and Jake Rock the Boat by Sonya Lalli
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl by Renée Rosen
An American Beauty by Shana Abe
In This Moment by Gabrielle Meyer
Meeting Mozart by Howard Jay Smith
All the Pretty Places by Joy Callaway
The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray
Summer Reading by Jenn McKinlay
The Garden of Lost Secrets by Kelly Bowen
The Widow's Guide to Second Chances by Valerie Pepper
it was amazing
The Duchess Takes a Husband by Harper St. George
The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries by Stephen L. Hauser
Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza
The Dueling Duchess by Minerva Spencer
The Shakespeare Sisters by Juliet Greenwood
Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews
A Deed of Dreadful Note by Patricia Meredith
I Knew You Were Trouble by Pip Fox
Marty by Octavia Burney
it was amazing
Too Much! by Jolene Gutiérrez
Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson
A Little Ray of Sunshine by Kristan Higgins
Appointment in Bath by Mimi Matthews
A Picture Perfect Summer by Jessica Booth
The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor
The Favor by Adele Griffin
The Cosy Cat Society by Charlie Lyndhurst
it was amazing
The Guest House by the Sea by Faith Hogan
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Linda Corbett
Moderate Becoming Good Later by Katie Carr
The Secrets We Hide by Patricia Sands
Blurred Fates by Anastasia Zadeik
A Fatal Illusion by Anna Lee Huber
The Bucharest Legacy by William Maz
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
The Undiscovered Country by Diane Meyer Lowman
it was amazing
Through the Wilderness by Brad Orsted
Darcy by Alice McVeigh
Kiss Me, Mi Amor by Alana Quintana Albertson
The Ingredients of Happiness by Lucy Burdette
The Dane of My Existence by Jessica Martin
Death at Larch Bridge by Gretta Mulrooney
A Cryptic Clue by Victoria Gilbert
I Wish We Weren't Related by Radhika Sanghani
The Way of the Fearless Writer by Beth Kempton
it was amazing
Good Fortune by C.K. Chau
The Poetics of Passion by Delphine Ross
First to the Front by Lorissa Rinehart
Ghosted by Amanda Quain
Yes, Chef by Waitlyn Andrews
Wanderlust by Karen Gershowitz
A Bakery in Paris by Aimie K. Runyan
The Princess by Wendy Holden
Henderson House by Caren Simpson McVicker
Positively, Penelope by Pepper Basham
it was amazing
Saving the Good News Gazette by Jessie Wells
The Paris Assignment by Rhys Bowen
To Free the Stars by J'nell Ciesielski
Mrs. Porter Calling by A.J. Pearce
Althea by Sally H. Jacobs
Our Cat's Day by Radek Malý
The Enemy at Home by Kevin O'Brien
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons by Karin Smirnoff
A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White
it was amazing
The 14 Day Mind Cleanse by Jacqui Lewis
The Lily of Ludgate Hill by Mimi Matthews
A Beautiful Rival by Gill Paul
Dead West by Linda L. Richards
Mama's Got Anxiety by Courtney Devich
Princess Diana by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Can't We Be Friends by Denny S. Bryce

Literary’s last review of the year

it was amazing
This is my favorite read in 2023. I finished it New Year's Eve and felt it a perfect way to ring in the New Year. It is a histfic marvel of a novel, bringing beloved jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and iconic actress Marilyn Monroe to vivid life as it describes their surprising, enduring friendship.

Both women had traumatic childhoods, both had marriages and lovers who left them brokenhearted. Both had to negotiate with controlling managers and studi ...more
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