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2023
My Year in Books
23,931
pages read
Laura-Anne Wright
100
books read
Laura-Anne Wright
Cat Party #8 by Katie Haegele
Shortest Book
19
pages
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Longest Book
535
pages
Average book length in 2023
239
pages
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Most Shelved
5,722,305
people also shelved
Cat Party #8 by Katie Haegele
Least Shelved
1
people also shelved
Laura-Anne’s average rating for 2023
4.4
4.4
At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.54 average
Simon's Cat by Simon Tofield

Laura-Anne’s first review of the year

it was amazing
Delightful and charming ! Anyone with a cat will love the endearing nature of this precocious little ball of fur!
LAURA-ANNE’S 2023 BOOKS
A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Sunkara
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
it was amazing
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Little Man of Disneyland by Nick Balian
Saint Sebastian's Abyss by Mark Haber
How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
it was amazing
Cat Party #8 by Katie Haegele
Honing Your Craft by Lydia Rogue
Creative, Not Famous by Ayun Halliday
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
Slonim Woods 9 by Daniel Barban Levin
This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick
Love Poems by Editors of Canterbury Classics
it was amazing
Simon's Cat by Simon Tofield
Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Long Life by Mary Oliver
it was amazing
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Zodiac P.I., Vol. 1 by Natsumi Andō
The White Album by Joan Didion
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
How To Be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
Komi Can't Communicate, Vol. 1 by Tomohito Oda
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Living with Shakespeare by Susannah Carson
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
it was amazing
St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Goldenrod by Maggie Smith
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
Hey, Hun by Emily Lynn Paulson
it was amazing
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pageboy by Elliot Page
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe
You Have The Right To Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
Sadie by Courtney Summers
Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
it was amazing
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen
Sheets by Brenna Thummler
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver
it was amazing
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
it was amazing
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Hex by Jenni Fagan
it was amazing
Wordslut by Amanda Montell
Dirty Work by Eyal Press
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Conversations with My Puppet by Savy Leiser
Darkness Visible by William Styron
Promethus bound by Aeschylus
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
A Devil in Paradise by Henry Miller
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
it was amazing
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Wear Sunscreen by Mary Schmich
Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Antigone by Sophocles
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Conversations with My Puppet by Savy Leiser

Laura-Anne’s last review of the year

really liked it
loved

The exercises and journaling prompts were my favorite part of the book ! I love that I can go back and pull an exercise out and do it anytime I need some playful creative time in my work and in my day!
2023 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Laura-Anne Wright read 100 out of 35 books.
 
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