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2023
My Year in Books
33,475
pages read
91
books read


A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Shortest Book
3
pages
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Longest Book
1,144
pages

Average book length in 2023
367
pages

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Most Shelved
5,523,752
people also shelved
The Overland Trail by Wendi Lee
Least Shelved
85
people also shelved

JennanneJ’s average rating for 2023
3.0
3.0

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.49 average

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

JennanneJ’s first review of the year

really liked it
Fun characters, unexpected plot.

JENNANNEJ’S 2023 BOOKS
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
really liked it
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper
Attribution by Linda  Moore
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
really liked it
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
The Bone Labyrinth by James Rollins
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
The Guncle by Steven  Rowley
really liked it
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Wool by Hugh Howey
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
Cultish by Amanda Montell
The Brighter the Light by Mary Ellen Taylor
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict
liked it
The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White
The Fiancée by Kate White
Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The War Girls by V.S. Alexander
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Secrets You Keep by Kate White
The Second Husband by Kate White
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
really liked it
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
When All Is Said by Anne  Griffin
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
it was amazing
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Walking. One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
really liked it
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Mythos by Stephen Fry
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Edison's Ghosts by Katie Spalding
it was amazing
The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris by Daisy Wood
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
Whistling Women by Kelly Romo
I Like You by Amy Sedaris
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Overland Trail by Wendi Lee
West End Girls by Jenny Colgan
You Me Everything by Catherine Isaac
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
really liked it
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
Eden Mine by S.M. Hulse
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
really liked it
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline  Martin
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox
The Crimson Cipher by Susan Page Davis
it was ok

The Crimson Cipher by Susan Page Davis

JennanneJ’s last review of the year

it was ok
A woman code breaker era WWI. A fun subject, but draggy novel.
Our heroine and her love interest are so formal and proper.
When she has a stalker who won’t leave her alone and follows her across the country, never taking no for an answer, she frets that she was “uncivil” to him once.
They are urged NEVER to talk about their work outside of the office, but the first thing our heroine does the next time she runs into her “young man” is walk around
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JennanneJ read 91 out of 75 books.
 
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