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2023
My Year in Books
26,877
pages read
Vanessa
85
books read
Vanessa
5 likes
Your Voice, Your Vote by Leah Henderson
Shortest Book
40
pages
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr.
Longest Book
pages
Average book length in 2023
316
pages
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Most Shelved
2,679,615
people also shelved
A Traveler's Guide to Caribbean History by Don Dachner
Least Shelved
3
people also shelved
Vanessa’s average rating for 2023
4.5
4.5
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.62 average
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris

Vanessa’s first review of the year

liked it
2.5.

This book was a gift. I'm not a regular reader of this genre and would direct others to some of the reviews of this book here on Goodreads.

The author had a great idea for a story but I felt the execution was a let-down. The plot focused too much on the adults and their romance rather than the children. I cared about and was rooting for the kids!

I hope the author continues to build success as a writer and I would give another title by her a t ...more
VANESSA’S 2023 BOOKS
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
it was amazing
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
The Statues that Walked by Terry L. Hunt
Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdahl
I Can't Breathe by David Horowitz
Forward Together by William J. Barber II
Patina Modern by Chris Mitchell
The Negro Motorist Green-Book by Victor H. Green
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
Driving While Black by Gretchen Sorin
it was amazing
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Going Places by Tonya Bolden
Overground Railroad by Candacy A. Taylor
Driving the Green Book by Alvin Hall
Three Negro Classics (Up From Slavery; The Souls of Black Fol... by Booker T. Washington
The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, The African by Olaudah Equiano
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr.
A Few Days Full of Trouble by Wheeler Parker Jr.
it was amazing
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Chung Hyo Ye by Diamond Sutra Recitation Gr...
Korea by Chris Wright
Retribution by Max Hastings
Beauty of Korea by Jai-Sik Suh
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
it was amazing
The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks
A History of Korea by Michael J. Seth
Men of the 65th by Talia Aikens-Nunez
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Bridge by Peter J. Tomasi
Franklin and Lucy by Joseph E. Persico
The History of the Church by Eusebius
Pageboy by Elliot Page
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
it was amazing
Pirate Coast by Richard Zacks
When War Passed This Way by W.P. Conrad
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
Irresistible Revolution by Matthew Lohmeier
How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton
Wonder by Nicholas Bell
The Narnian by Alan Jacobs
Panzer Leader by H\General Heinz Guderian
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
it was amazing
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
The Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold
Eclipse by Andy Rash
The Wager by David Grann
Dünkirchen 1940 by Robert Kershaw
The Happy Traveler by Jaime L. Kurtz
Ritchie Boy Secrets by Beverley Driver Eddy
Random Shots by Roy E Rayle
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
A Traveler's Guide to Caribbean History by Don Dachner
The Walk by Winsome Bingham
it was amazing
Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham
American Lion by Jon Meacham
Seahenge by Francis Pryor
Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Road to Victory by David P. Colley
The Sister by Sung-Yoon Lee
In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Becoming by Michelle Obama
it was amazing
The Balfour Declaration by Jonathan Schneer
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo
While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park
The Sisterhood by Liza Mundy
Teddy and Booker T. by Brian Kilmeade
The Essential Barack Obama by Barack Obama
Israel by Noa Tishby
A Brutal Reckoning by Peter Cozzens
Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
it was amazing
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Sailing the Graveyard Sea by Richard Snow
Your Voice, Your Vote by Leah Henderson
A Vintage Christmas by Various
really liked it
Enemies and Neighbors by Ian Black
Enemies and Neighbors by Ian Black

Vanessa’s last review of the year

really liked it
Black covers the events between Jewish/Israeli and Arab/Palestinian peoples post-Balfour declaration from 1917-2017. This book details the political back-and-forth movements in that period and also details several events of violence and atrocities committed by both sides. It was hard emotionally for me to take it all in, especially given current events.
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Vanessa read 85 out of 65 books.
 
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