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2023
My Year in Books
30,649
pages read
hayden
165
books read
hayden
Today Hamlet by Natalie Shapero
Shortest Book
23
pages
Directed by Desire by June Jordan
Longest Book
690
pages
Average book length in 2023
185
pages
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Most Shelved
1,716,298
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The Oranges Will Still Grow Without Us by Kate Sweeney
Least Shelved
3
people also shelved
hayden’s average rating for 2023
4.1
4.1
Language Lesson by Ashaki M. Jackson
Highest Rated on Goodreads
it was amazing
5.00 average
The Vanishing Point by Elizabeth Brundage

hayden’s first review of the year

liked it
hmmmmm. well, like in Brundage's last novel, All Things Cease to Appear, I loved every single sentence. but, unlike that novel, I didn't wind up caring about any of these characters. they were rendered complexly, but I was missing the spark, whatever it was, that made me interested in them. it isn't a matter of likability – I love unlikable characters – but something else, something more nebulous. meh. ...more
HAYDEN’S 2023 BOOKS
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
The Vanishing Point by Elizabeth Brundage
How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton
it was amazing
The All-Night Sun by Diane Zinna
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
The Circle That Fits by Kevin Lichty
Good Times by Lucille Clifton
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
An Ordinary Woman by Lucille Clifton
Good News About the Earth by Lucille Clifton
Uphill by Jemele Hill
No Object by Natalie Shapero
Hard Child by Natalie Shapero
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
it was amazing
Two-Headed Woman by Lucille Clifton
Foster by Claire Keegan
The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan
Next by Lucille Clifton
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
it was amazing
Violets by Alex Hyde
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan
The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
Popular Longing by Natalie Shapero
Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Sudden Traveller by Sarah Hall
Madame Zero by Sarah Hall
In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso
it was amazing
Lupine by Jenny Irish
The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
The Temporary by Rachel Cusk
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk
Rain by Kirsty Gunn
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
The Last Catastrophe by Allegra Hyde
it was amazing
The Many by Wyl Menmuir
Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty Gunn
Copy Paper by Eunsong Kim
Gospel of Regicide by Eunsong Kim
Shy by Max Porter
it was amazing
would-be future-humans by Jenny Irish
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris
Customs by Solmaz Sharif
Dreamland for Keeps by Sarah Nichols
Flower Boi by Mars Marshall
The Oranges Will Still Grow Without Us by Kate Sweeney
The Dark by John McGahern
Notes from the Birth Year by Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
it was amazing
To 2040 by Jorie Graham
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Inconsiderate Madness by Helen Marie Casey
A Civic Pageant by Frank Montesonti
Language Lesson by Ashaki M. Jackson
Surveillance by Ashaki M. Jackson
Atlas of the Body by Nicole Cuffy
Primitivity by Amy Sayre Baptista
it was amazing
Santa Ana by Russel Swensen
The Stars With You by Stefani Cox
Close to Home by Michael Magee
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
The Helens of Troy, New York by Bernadette Mayer
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
Young Skins by Colin Barrett
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
it was amazing
Fading by MC Hunton
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
Homesickness by Colin Barrett
The Immoralist by André Gide
Invisible Ink by Patrick Modiano
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
Scenes from a Childhood by Jon Fosse
August Blue by Deborah Levy
Three Masquerades by Rachel Ingalls
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls
it was amazing
Something to Write Home About by Rachel Ingalls
Today Hamlet by Natalie Shapero
Theft by Rachel Ingalls
The Spinning Heart by Ryan Donal
No Love Lost by Rachel Ingalls
The Thing About December by Donal Ryan
it was amazing
A Slanting of the Sun by Donal Ryan
All We Shall Know by Ryan Donal
Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan
Some Changes by June Jordan
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

hayden’s last review of the year

it was ok
2.5
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