Top 13 Books Read in 2023

Top 13 Books Read In 2023

Usually, I would post this at the very end of December. I don’t really keep detailed statistics on the books that I read as I see many Booktubers do. After a year of spent reading steadily, I reached my goal of reading 63 books. I gave a total of 13 books 5 out of 5 stars. The books might not be the most popular or highly rated. They are books that touched me at some level, that I found compelling, interesting, poignant, or fun to read.

Here is the list in the order that I read them:

1. Woman at Sea by Catherine Poulain
2. Ghosts in a Photograph by Myrna Kostash
3. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
4. Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
5. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
6. In Search of a Better World by Payam Akhavan
7. Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai
8. Dreaming Home by Lucian Childs
9. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
10. Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
11. The Rebellious Tide by Eddy Boudel Tan
12. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
13. Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

I read 24 books by Canadian authors, and 32 books by BIPOC authors.

The longest book was Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

The shortest book was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.