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2023
My Year in Books
6,528
pages read
21
books read


The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Shortest Book
160
pages
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Longest Book
874
pages

Average book length in 2023
310
pages

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Most Shelved
1,651,590
people also shelved
The Other Evangelicals by Isaac B. Sharp
Least Shelved
525
people also shelved

Katelyn’s average rating for 2023
3.7
3.7

How Far to the Promised Land by Esau McCaulley
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.61 average

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Katelyn’s first review of the year

liked it
An extremely strange and at times bewildering book that is perfectly pitched for approx. 3 percent of the U.S. population that is Very Online. Thankfully, I am in that 3 percent. I didn't love the writing format of short blog-like updates but found the last third of the book quite moving. ...more

KATELYN’S 2023 BOOKS
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
really liked it
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Other Evangelicals by Isaac B. Sharp
Rethinking Sex by Christine Emba
The Gospel of Wellness by Rina Raphael
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
it was amazing
Losing Our Religion by Russell   Moore
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman
How Far to the Promised Land by Esau McCaulley
Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
it was amazing
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Katelyn’s last review of the year

it was amazing
The thing that struck me on a re-read (the first read was 13 years ago, and due to immaturity I didn't appreciate some of it) is that its love for the world and love for God exist on the same plane. The closer you turn toward God, the closer you are to loving the world as the world, in its specificity and materiality. Which is why I think this book has meant so much to a particular kind of Christian who grew up absorbing that to love God was to h ...more
2023 Reading Challenge
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Katelyn Beaty read 21 out of 23 books.
 
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