2023 Books
I read well over 100 books this year, with around 80 that I would actually recommend. Some of these I read multiple of the same author (or the rest of the series) but just listed one. The first part of the year I was in my graphic novel phase. Favorite: “The boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse.”
Memoirs were a surprise to me: they’ve been more of my sisters thing than my thing, but yessss. Jesus land was a bit graphic and hard to get through. Magnolia stuff will just always uplift me, which is nice, and Beth Moore’s “All my Knotted Up Life” was the clear favorite: totally recommend!
The Myth of Normal kind of reminded me of “The Body keeps the Score” as I am trying to learn more, The Race-Wise Family, Anti-Racist Kid, and Doing Nothing is no Longer an Option were all decent resources on learning more about race issues. Missions and Marriage be hard are about obvious things I want to keep getting better on, and Mama Bear Apologetics and Live Your Truth and Other Lies were things I wanted to read to understand, but didn’t agree with some things on—at least on how they were said and the attitude behind it. Still figuring that out. My favorite non-fiction I wrote individual blog posts for:).
Kids books! Hoping this section gets larger as I enjoy more books with my kiddos! We loved reading Amari and the Vanderbeekers out loud, as well as the younger kids books. Kate DeCamillo will always be my happy place, as well as anything about Peter Pan. Sofia loved everything written by Dav Pilkey (Dogman…)
Second part of the year I moved into my Princess/Fantacy/Regency phase. I’ve mostly figured out how to find the Regency novels that are clean (read: not smutty), which is not as easy as it should be. Read all of the Melanie Cellier redone fairytales series, Shadow was a second book to Dust. Cursed Crowns was the second book to Twin Crowns which I read last year, and Twin Daggars/Heartless Heirs were together. Sanctuary for Seers was the last in 5 books I’d read before. The Lady and the Highwayman is the first of the Penny Dreadful books that were fun, and Edenbrooke was by far my favorite!
The last two above were not Regency novels, they were just novels:). Below is the other books that didn’t have room in their correct groups above.
