This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is the top new authors I read in 2023. I counted 45 authors that were new to me in 2023. Here were my favorites: Other notable authors I read this yearwere Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (And Then He Sang a Lullaby), Hala Alyan (The Arsonists’…
Happy New Year! Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is our favorite books of 2023. I’ve come up with my top books overall, and then I’ve broken them out in a few categories (audiobooks, 2023 releases, by genre, debut novel). Best by Audiobook: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, The Bandit Queens…
The topic of this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is books we hope to receive as gifts. I decided to base my wish list on books that are showing up on the “best of 2023” lists. Some of them I already wanted to read; I’m already a fan of David…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about authors we discovered in 2022. By my count, I read 54 new authors in 2022. Here are some of my favorites. There were a few others I thought about including on this list: Gabrielle Union, Susan Cain, Clare Chambers, Katherine Center, Jesse…
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is our top books we read in 2022. I already wrote about my top 2022 releases and my favorite audiobooks. These are my favorite books that I read in 2022. Those are my favorite books of 2022! What were some of your favorites?
I can’t remember a year where I’ve read so few of the books that are being touted on the Best of the Year Lists (see, for example, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, and Time). This year I read 34 books published in 2022, which is similar to how I read last year,…
Wishing you all a very happy and safe holiday season! In 2022, at least half of my reading was by audiobook (occasionally I combined audio and print versions). I generally listen to audiobooks while walking, doing household chores, and driving. My dad lives an hour’s drive away, which lends itself to a good audiobook, provided…
I’ve read 65 books so far this year. Of these, StoryGraph characterizes my reading as predominantly “emotional”, then “reflective”, “funny”, “mysterious”, “light-hearted”, and “informative”. My most frequent categories of books are romance, historical, contemporary, memoir, and literary (as categorized by StoryGraph, which isn’t necessarily the way I’d categorize each book). I’ve read more nonfiction than…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is our favorite books of 2021. Here is a list of my favorite books this year, broken down into six categories. These are books I read this year regardless of when they were published (though quite a few were published this year): Contemporary fiction:…
I hope you had a very happy Christmas (if you celebrate it) and a safe and healthy holiday. In this post I’m talking about the best new authors I read this year. If I’ve calculated correctly, I read 58 books in 2021 by authors that were new to me. That’s out of 111 books, so…
‘Tis the season for “best books of year” lists. One of my favorites is the New York Times 100 Notable Books, which I prefer because getting a list of 100 books is much better than trying to distill the best reading of the year down to a handful of books. In fact I didn’t really care for…
For this post I picked out some of my favorite audiobooks from this year so far (these books weren’t necessarily published this year). They range from very serious to just for fun – I think audiobooks work best for really emotional topics, and are often perfect for lighter, atmospheric books like romances, horror, and mystery. I…
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