What I'm Reading in 2023

What have I been doing lately? Clearly not writing. Life has been busy. While I would often schedule time to write, things would come up and well, here we are.

However, one of my favorite things to share every November is my TBR for the next year. To be honest, 2022 was the worst year for reading I've had. Maybe ever. Definitely in the last decade. I set a goal to read 75 books, which should have been fairly easy. I read maybe 25. And most of those weren't on my list for the year, but review opportunities I added. So, unfortunately, my TBR for 2023 looks a lot like my list for 2022.... Whoops.

Regardless, here it is. I always divide it by month on my personal list, but usually don't put those monthly divisions in this post. I think this year, I will, as I'm hoping it will help me stay more accountable....we'll see.

If you see anything you're interested in reading, please let me know! I'd love to read along with you! Some of these are a bit older, but that just means they are easier to find!

January

This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel - - finished January 2023

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson - - finished January 2023

The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer - - finished June 2023

Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica - - finished January 2023

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins - - finished December 2022

February

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones - - finished February 2022

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl - - finished February 2022

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak - - finished February 2023

Maame by Jessica George - - finished February 2023

March

The Library Book by Susan Orlean - - finished March 2023

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano - - finished March 2023

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - - finished March 2023

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - - finished April 2023

The Family Game by Catherine Steadman - - finished March 2023

April

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory - - finished April 2023

The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel by Abi Dare - - finished April 2023

A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

Hunger by Roxanne Gay - - finished April 2023

The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent - - finished April 2023

The Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune - - finished April 2023

May

The Night Tiger by Yangtze Choo - - finished May 2023

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Complete Novels of Dawn Powell

Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles

Sweet Success by Candace Nelson - - finished May 2023

June

From Scratch by Tembi Locke - - finished June 2023

Valentine: A Novel by Elizabeth Wetmore - - finished June 2023

The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton - - finished October 2023

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer - - finished June 2023

Love and Ruin by Paula McClain - - finished June 2023

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan - - finished June 2023

I Got a Name: The Jim Croce Story by Ingrid Croce - - finished June 2023

July

The Cactus by Sarah Haywood - - finished July 2023

All Adults Here by Emma Straub - - finished July 2023

Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker - - finished July 2023

That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam - - finished August 2023

August

The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Death of Mrs. Westway by Ruth Ware

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman - - finished August 2023

September

The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda

Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

Wellness by Nathan Hill - - finished October 2023

October

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

The Comeback by Ella Berman

Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende - - finished November 2023

November

Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

Here For It by R. Eric Thomas

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Bucket List by Georgia Clark

Come and Get It by Kiley Reid - - finished November 2023

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins - - finished November 2023

A Winter in New York by Josie Silver - - finished November 2023

Diva by Daisy Goodwin - - finished November 2023

December

Conviction by Denise Mina

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

The Women by Kristin Hannah - - finished December 2023