I exceeded my reading goal this year. I set a target of 25 and read 48 books.
I was asked last week to pick my top 3 books, and my response was it’s hard to pick 3 books when you’ve read so many books! But I’ll keep thinking about it and see if I can highlight some ultimate favourites.
I can honestly say that Yellowface was overrated; it won the GoodReads Fiction Book of the Year, and I found by the time I got into the story the book ended and I found myself thinking, is that it?
16 audiobooks/ 32 paper books.
I prefer to listen to autobiographies. The Myth of Normal was one of my audiobooks, but I bought a hard copy to read later, like How To Be An Adult In Relationships. I take in more information when I read it than when I listen.
I’ve enjoyed getting lost in fiction books in the last few weeks.
I also started a bookstagram (TheReadingClareBear) to share my book reading with anyone interested.
I’m looking forward to more books in 2024.
What were your favourite books of 2023?
What was 4000 weeks like?
My top 3 for the year where:
Dopamine Nation
Elon Musk’s autobiography
Endurance
Endurance by Alfred Lansing is actually the best book I’ve ever read. It’s about Ernest Shackleton’s failed voyage across Antarctica in 1910. The most incredible story of survival and evidence humans can be resilient.
I listened to and read 30+ books in 2023 and also struggle to cite a best one. But if I had to choose I think you put me onto it - Four Thousand Weeks. It was terrific.
The Loudest Duck will certainly shape my views on diversity and inclusion as I head into 2024.
Kitty Flanagan’s Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies was great when I needed a laugh.
And I’m currently listening to Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry. Sad to have lost him in 2023 but hopefully he is in a better place now.
I’ll be checking out a few from your Bookstagram this year, what a great concept.