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2023
My Year in Books
51,039
pages read
Jack Edwards
205
books read
Jack Edwards
179 likes
Mr Salary by Sally Rooney
Shortest Book
33
pages
Pucking Around by Emily Rath
Longest Book
756
pages
Average book length in 2023
248
pages
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Most Shelved
3,875,969
people also shelved
A Method, A Path by Rowan Evans
Least Shelved
201
people also shelved
Jack’s average rating for 2023
3.5
3.5
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.55 average
Beast at Every Threshold by Natalie Wee

Jack’s first review of the year

really liked it
3.75 stars rounded up -- so many gorgeous, tender poems (my personal highlight was In My Next Life as a Fruit Tree) but I'm not sure all the experimentation worked 100% of the time. Overall, though, I enjoyed this poetic exploration of "otherness". ...more
JACK’S 2023 BOOKS
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
People Change by Vivek Shraya
Beast at Every Threshold by Natalie Wee
Haruko by June Jordan
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
it was amazing
Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Oxygen Mask by Jason Reynolds
it was amazing
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
Hex by Jenni Fagan
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
it was amazing
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
A Horse at Night by Amina Cain
You Are a Global Citizen by Damon Dominique
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
Les Enfants terribles by Jean Cocteau
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Losing the Plot by Derek Owusu
Hearts & Bones by Niamh Mulvey
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
it was amazing
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Foster by Claire Keegan
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Mr Salary by Sally Rooney
Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
it was amazing
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
Counterweight by Djuna
Watching Women & Girls by Danielle Pender
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Cultish by Amanda Montell
Spare by Prince Harry
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
really liked it
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
The Novelist by Jordan Castro
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria E. Schwab
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
it was amazing
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Oh William! by Strout Elizabeth
Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
Another Country by James Baldwin
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Manorism by Yomi Sode
A Visible Man by Edward Enninful
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
it was amazing
There There by Tommy Orange
Almond by Sohn Won-Pyung
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Human Acts by Han Kang
Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
Concerning My Daughter by Hye-Jin Kim
House of Idols by In-hun Choi
The Plotters by Kim Un-Su
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
it was amazing
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Sula by Toni Morrison
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
really liked it
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Unexpected Vanilla by Lee Hyemi
Ghost Town by Kevin Chen
Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyōko Nakajima
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Collosus of New York by Colson Whitehead
Couplets by Maggie Millner
it was amazing
Paris by Paris Hilton
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The God Desire by David Baddiel
I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Jack’s last review of the year

it was ok
so this is what they meant when they said "fast fashion books"

rushed, lazy, just carbon-copies the blueprint of book 1 in the series... but doesn't work. ...more
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