My Best of 2023

I joined StoryGraph at the beginning of the year, abandoning Goodreads after who knows how long. (They allowed me to import my data, which made me very happy!). At any rate, one of my favorite features of Storygraph is that they track your data for you! That makes someone like me, who likes to look at the numbers behind my reading, very very happy.

So, the numbers:

Middle Grade: 36
Young Adult: 21
Graphic Novels: 16
Adult Fiction: 45
Non-Fiction: 14
Total: 132

Number of those that were audiobooks: 50


Number that were Speculative fiction (not including graphic novels): 23
Number that were by BIPOC authors: 27 (20%; slightly better than last year, but still not great)
Number by Latine authors: 8
Number I reread: 5
Number I abandoned: too many to count, and I made a conscious decision not to blog about them this year

My moods, according to StoryGraph:

My top 10, not including Middle Grade, which will be revealed tomorrow when the Cybils finalists are announced.

In order, two each of adult fiction, audiobooks, YA, graphic novels, and non-fiction.

And the other fun thing is they track my genres!

My top genre was middle Grade with 39 books, and the bottom two were music (the BTS book) and crime (which tuned out to be really a mystery, but hey, I’m not complaining).I am surprised I read a lot more contempoary than SFF, but maybe I shouldn’t be?

This is kind of turning out to be an ad for StoryGraph, but I’ve really enjoyed it this year.

What were some of your favorietes? Did anything surprise you?

2 thoughts on “My Best of 2023

  1. Helen Murdoch's avatar Helen Murdoch says:

    You’ve had a wonderful reading year! I agree that Remarkably Bright Creatures and Warrior Girl Unearthed were fantastic.

    Happy New Year!

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