Books I Read in 2023

 

Here's my annual "Books I Read This Year" post.

Along with some reading related artwork.

Enjoy!

• The Magical Summer of Miranda Stone by A.D. Brazeau 
• The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
• What Never Happened A Thriller by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Our Place on the Island by Erika Montgomery 
• Looking for Clara by Simona Grossi
• A Boat on the Ocean by Simona Grossi
• The Little Red French Door by Simona Grossi
• Take the Long Way Home by Rochelle Alers 
• Wedding of the Season by Lauren Edmondson
• Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson
• The Block Party by Jamie Day
• Sally Brady's Italian Adventure by Christina Lynch 
• The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman 
• My Magnolia Summer by Victoria Benton Frank
• All the Days of Summer by Nancy Thayer 
• The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges 
• Prom Mom by Laura Lippman 
• I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
• In a Hard Wind A McKenzie Novel by David Housewright 
• Identity by Nora Roberts 
• The Spectacular by Fiona Davis 
• The Dark Edge of Night by Mark Pryor
• The Friday Night Club by Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman and M. J. Rose 
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 
• The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand 
• The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman
• Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding 
• The Paris Mystery by Kirsty Manning 
• Elsie de Wolfe's Paris: Frivolity Before the Storm by Charlie Scheips
• The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George
• The Heirloom Inn by Olivia Miles
• The Love Scribe by Amy Meyerson 
• Time's Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
• Justice Is Served A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG by Leslie Karst 
• China by Edward Rutherfurd 
• The Bird Hotel by Joyce Maynard 
• The Darlings by Hannah McKinnon
• From Dust to Stardust by Kathleen Rooney 
• Summer Roommates by Holly Chamberlin
• An American Beauty by Shana Abe 
• The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
• House of Clouds by K. L. Gleeson
• The River Runs South by Audrey Ingram 
• A Likely Story by Leigh McMullan Abramson 
• The Thing About Home by Rhonda McKnight 
• All the Leaves Are Brown How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart by Scott G. Shea 
• All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay 
• A Killing of Innocents by Deborah Crombie 
• What Became of Magic by Paige Crutcher
• Halfway to You by Jennifer Gold 
• A Paris Odyssey by Axel Forrester 
• At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber 
• Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman 
• Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright 
• Homecoming by Kate Morton 
• The Secret of FBI File 100-3-116 by Mark de Castrique 
• Émilienne A Novel of Belle Epoque Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen 
• The Truth Against the World by David Corbett 
• The Summer of Fall by Laura Lippman 
• The Book of Delights, Essays by Ross Gay 
• The Beach House by Jane Green 
• The Measure of Silence by Elizabeth Langston 
• Silence of the Seamaid by Ann Medlock 
• Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews 
• Summer on the French Riviera by Jennifer Bohnet
• Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane 
• We Are Family by Beth Moran
• The Beginning of Everything by Jackie Fraser 
• Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes 
• Wildwood Magic by Willa Reece 
• The Engagement Party by Finley Turner
• The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor
• The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger 
• Day by Michael Cunningham
• The Tiffany Girls by Shelley Noble 
• The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis 
• California Golden by Melanie Benjamin
• Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy 
• All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby 
• Lost Hours by Paige Shelton
• Thirty Days in Paris by Veronica Henry 
• The Awakening by Nora Roberts (re-read)
• The Becoming by Nora Roberts (re-read)
• The Choice by Nora Roberts (re-read)
• Inheritance by Nora Roberts 
• The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins 
• Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger
• Who to Believe by Edwin Hill 
• Diva by Daisy Goodwin 
• The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
• The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods 
• The Still Point by Tammy Greenwood 
• Brothers and Sisters by Alan Paul 
• Summer on Sag Harbor by Sunny Hostin 
• The Life She Wanted by Anita Abriel
• A December to Remember by Jenny Bayliss 
• I Am Ayah by Donna Hill 
• Yes, Chef by Waitlyn Andrews 
• Snowed in for Christmas by Jacqueline Snowe
• Windfallen by JoJo Moyes 
• Light on Bone by Kathryn Lasky 
• The Trouble with You by Ellen Feldman 
• Windfall by Wendy Corsi Staub
• High Tides and Summer Skies by Jennifer Bohnet
• Call the Canaries Home by Laura Barrow
• The Women by Kristin Hannah 
• The Magic All Around by Jennifer Moorman 
• Fall by Tracy Clark 
• Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn 
• The Lioness of Boston by Emily Franklin 
• A Slice of Courage Quiche by Jennifer Moorman
• An Upper West Side Story by Rachel Cullen
• The Starfish Sisters by Barbara O'Neal
• Redwood Court by DeLana R. A. Dameron
• The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
• One Christmas Eve by Shari Low 
• The Masters by Jann S. Wenner 
• The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
• Winter in New York by Josie Silver 
• One Night on the Island by Josie Silver 
• A Hitch in Time by Christopher Hitchens 
• Escape to Starshine Cove by Debbie Johnson 
• Wellness by Nathan Hill
• The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski
• Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
• The Guest by B. A. Paris
• Goodbye Earl by Leesa Cross-Smith 
• Don't Forget to Write by Sara Goodman Confino 
• Fleetwood Mac: Everywhere by Mike Evans
• Payback in Death by J. D. Robb 
• The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl 
• Take Me Home by Beth Moran
• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams 
• The Beautiful People by Michelle Gable
• The Hunter by Tana French
• After Annie by Anna Quindlen 
• The Memory of Lavender and Sage by Aimie K. Runyan 
• John Lewis by Raymond Arsenault 
• Now Lila Knows by Elizabeth Nunez
• The Philadelphia Heiress by Anita Abriel
• One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan 
• The Collector by Nora Roberts 
• The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King 
• Secrets of Starshine Cove by Debbie Johnson 
• Christmas with the Lords by Hannah Langdon 
• My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
• A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge
• The Christmas Postcards by Karen Swan 
• Silent Girl by M. L. Rose
• The Last Caretaker by Jessica Strawser
• The Summer Swap by Sarah Morgan