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2023
My Year in Books
18,196
pages read
48
books read


Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Shortest Book
112
pages
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Longest Book
848
pages

Average book length in 2023
379
pages

1984 by George Orwell
Most Shelved
8,366,936
people also shelved
The New Testament LDS, King James Version by Anonymous
Least Shelved
167
people also shelved

Jenn’s average rating for 2023
4.0
4.0

The New Testament LDS, King James Version by Anonymous
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.93 average

Spare by Prince Harry

Jenn’s first review of the year

it was ok
As a royal watcher my whole life, there were many interesting details and tidbits here. But a lot of the writing style was pretentious and silly and clearly pushing for a lifetime victim narrative , asking for all the sympathy in the world for the poor spare, while Harry hypocritically has none for anyone else in his life. I do sympathize with his plight with the awful British press- but his malicious maligning and blame put on his family members ...more

JENN’S 2023 BOOKS
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
it was amazing
Stiff by Mary Roach
Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Maid by Nita Prose
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
THE INFERNO BY JOHN CIARDI~1954 by Dante Alighieri
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
it was amazing
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Hero by Michael Korda
The Hinge Factor by Erik Durschmied
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Homecoming by Kate Morton
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
1984 by George Orwell
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
it was amazing
Spare by Prince Harry
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford
The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter
Becoming Free Indeed by Jinger Duggar Vuolo
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Voyage of Mercy by Stephen Puleo
it was amazing
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
The Odyssey by Homer
The Iliad by Homer
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
it was amazing
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Aeneid by Virgil
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl
The New Testament LDS, King James Version by Anonymous
The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
A Remnant Shall Return - 2020 Edition by Michael B. Rush
really liked it
Jackie by J. Randy Taraborrelli
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Jenn’s last review of the year

it was amazing
The most unique, brilliant (and at times bizarre) anti-war statement I’ve ever read. Knowing Vonnegut’s background makes it even more poignant. Not a warm and fuzzy book but definitely an important one. Especially as I feel more anti-war every day that I get older …. War is the absolute worst of humanity and almost never justified. Especially bombings like Dresden!!
2023 Reading Challenge
2023 READING
CHALLENGE
Jenn Nelson read 48 out of 50 books.
 
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